Az élet királya
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Az élet királya (Template:Translation)Template:Sfn is a 1918 Hungarian film directed by Alfréd Deésy. It is an adaptation of The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde.
The film premiered in Budapest January 21, 1918 and was described as an "almost unprecedented success" in local Budapest press.Template:Sfn It received a positive review in Pesti Napló.
Plot summary
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Cast
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Production
Az élet királya was based on Oscar Wilde's novel The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891). In the film, Norbert Dán plays Dorian Gray while Bela Lugosi portrayed Lord Harry Watton, known in the novel as Lord Henry Wotton.Template:Sfn
Release
Az élet királya was previewed at the Uránia in Budapest on October 23, 1917. It was officially released on January 21, 1918, at Budapest's Corso Theater.Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn The film was described as an "almost unprecedented success" in local Budapest press.Template:Sfn
In some ads, the film was referred to as simple Élet királya.Template:Sfn The film was released in Germany as Die Spur seiner Sünden.Template:Sfn Outside of Hungary it was also known as Dorian Gray Arckepe.Template:Sfn As of 2022, as with nearly all of Lugosi's Hungarian film productions, no copy of the film is known to exist.Template:Sfn
Reception
In the Hungarian newspaper Pesti Napló, a critic declared the film "a great psychological drama" and declared it an interesting comparison with the German film Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray by Richard Oswald.[1] Other reviews praised the work of Bela Lugosi, who performed in the film under the name Arisztid Olt.Template:Sfn A critic in Mozihét Kino-Woche stated Lugis played Lord Watton "with an artfulness of the highest quality"Template:Sfn[2] while another called his acting "most noble."Template:Sfn[3]
See also
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- 1918 films
- 1918 drama films
- Hungarian black-and-white films
- Hungarian silent feature films
- Films directed by Alfréd Deésy
- Films based on The Picture of Dorian Gray
- Silent Hungarian drama films
- Lost Hungarian films
- 1918 lost films
- Lost drama films