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Szaffi
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Szaffi (USA titled The Treasure of Swamp Castle) is a 1985 Hungarian-Canadian animated film directed by Attila Dargay. It is based on the 1885 book The Gypsy Baron by Mór Jókai, about the romance between a poor Hungarian aristocrat and a mysterious Romani-looking Turkish girl in the 18th century. Music from Johann Strauss II's operetta The Gypsy Baron, based on the same novel, is used for the film's soundtrack.
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7.8Szaffi is a full-length animated feature based on Mór Jókai’s short books The Gypsy Baron (A cigánybáró) and Szaffi. It has adventure, and treasure, and love, and a little black cat, and a war, and picturesque villains - a governor with a pressure release valve in his skull and a fat pig-loving baron, and of course, the good gypsies.
Cast
- András Kern as Jónás Botsinkay (voice)
- Judit Pogány as Szaffi (voice)
- Hilda Gobbi as Old Witch (voice)
- György Bárdy as Feuerstein lovag (voice)
- Gábor Maros as Puzzola (voice)
- Ferenc Zenthe as Gáspár Botsinkay (voice)
Themes
- fantasy
- hungarian
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Szaffi (USA titled The Treasure of Swamp Castle) is a 1985 Hungarian-Canadian animated film directed by Attila Dargay. It is based on the 1885 book The Gypsy Baron by Mór Jókai, about the romance between a poor Hungarian aristocrat and a mysterious Romani-looking Turkish girl in the 18th century. Music from Johann Strauss II's operetta The Gypsy Baron, based on the same novel, is used for the film's soundtrack.
==Cast== {|class="wikitable" |- !Character !Original !English |- !rowspan="2"|Jónás Botsinkay (son) |András Kern |Adrian Knight (Jonathan) |- |Sándor Pálok (young) |Steven Bednarski (Young Jonathan) |- !Szaffi |Judit Pogány |Michelle Turmel (Sabrina) |- !Cafrinka (“old witch”) |Hilda Gobbi |Bronwen Mantel (Esmeralda) |- !Feuerstein |György Bárdy |Vlasta Vrána (Governor) |- !Puzzola |Gábor Maros |Arthur Grosser (Ollie) |- !Gáspár Botsinkay (father) |Ferenc Zenthe |Unknown (Sheik Ali Suleiman) |- !Ahmed |József Képessy |Walter Massey (Ahmed the Fearless) |- !Arzéna |Judit Hernádi |Jane Woods (Petunia Piglet) |- !Loncsár |László Csákányi |Unknown (Baron Piglet) |- !Menyus |rowspan="3"|János Gálvölgyi |Unknown (Manouche) |- !Gazsi bácsi |rowspan="2"|Unknown |- !Strázsa |- !Savoyai Eugén |Sándor Suka |Unknown (General Tubthumper) |- !Adjutáns |András Márton |Unknown |- !Strázsamester |Gellért Raksányi |A.J. Henderson (Captain) |- !Asil |Zoltán Gera |Unknown |- !Puzzola anyja |Judit Czigány |Unknown (Ollie's Mother) |}
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