The Workman’s Overall

The Workman’s Overall (1915)

A munkászubbony

The romantic adventures of a wealthy factory owner with a beautiful Gypsy girl, who, overcome with jealousy, kidnaps the man’s child while he investigates (incognito) the disloyal and corrupt foreman in his own factory. His disguise is his old work overall in which he started his career many years before. The dramatic and spectacular work is the earliest surviving feature in Hungarian film history, starring legendary figures from the Hungarian stage: Gyula Hegedűs, who has a street named after him in Budapest, and Elza Szamosi, one of the first Puccini female singers of American and European opera stages.

Date of release
1915-02-01
TMDB
8.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
38m
Genres
Drama
Director
István Bródy

Casting

Interesting facts

The Workman's Overall, also known as The Work Jacket, is a silent Hungarian film produced in 1914, based on a novella by Imre Földes. The film was made in the Teaching Film Studio. It was directed by István Bródy, shot by Béla Zsitkovszky. It was first shown on 12 January 1915. After being lost for decades, the film was rediscovered in 2017. It was restored and digitalized by the Hungarian National Film Archives. It is one of a small number of early Hungarian films that survived. It is also one of the oldest Hungarian films in existence and one of the longest Hungarian silent films.

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