Leoni Leo
Movie Week, issue 27, 1917
(Courtesy of https://www.hangosfilm.hu/)
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Set in Venice, George Sand’s novel is a tale of the madness of love. Subtitled The Life of an Armenian Adventurer, the film changes the setting to Brussels. Lugosi plays the “crude, noble bandit” Baron Leone Leo, the leader of an international group of roguish gentleman known as the Ten. As Juliette, the beautiful daughter of the richest jeweler in Brussel, Annie Góth falls in love with Leone unaware that he only desires her family’s money.
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Production company: Star Filmgyár és Filmkereskedelmi Rt.
(Star Film Factory and Film Trading Co.)
Producers: Richard Geiger and Tibor Rákosi
Director: Alfréd Deésy
Screenplay: József Pakóts. Based on the novel Leone Leoni by George Sand
Set Designer: Sironthai Lhotka István
Previewed August 1917
Cast:
Béla Lugosi (under the name of Arisztid Olt) – Leoni Leo
Annie Góth – Juliette
Gyula Fehér (under the name of Róbert Fiáth) – The Marquis of Lorenzo
Lajos Gellért (under the name of Viktor Kurd) – Robert
Lilla Bársony – Princess Zagarolo
Marel Rolla – Carmen
Gusztáv Turán – Mario
József Földváry (under the name of Norbert Dán)
Richard Kornay
Lóth Ila
Klara Pet
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