Mother

Also known as Mámi

Mother is a 1937 Hungarian comedy film directed by Johann von Vásáry and starring Sári Fedák, Jenő Pataky and Lia Szepes. The film was based on a play by Rezsö Török, with art direction by Márton Vincze. The arrival from Texas of an eccentric relative and her son, disrupt the rhythm of a wealthy Hungarian family.

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Mother (Hungarian: Mámi) is a 1937 Hungarian comedy film directed by Johann von Vásáry and starring Sári Fedák, Jenő Pataky and Lia Szepes. The film was based on a play by Rezsö Török, with art direction by Márton Vincze. The arrival from Texas of an eccentric relative and her son, disrupt the rhythm of a wealthy Hungarian family.

The film is one of the successful comedies made by Vàsáry.

The film has been described as featuring one of the best roles of Sári Fedák.

Cast

Sári Fedák as Mámi, Özvegy Kovács Gáspárné

Jenő Pataky as Kovács Gazsi

Lia Szepes as Horváth Ilonka

Jenő Törzs as Torday Henrik, bankvezér

István Bársony as Inas

Piri Vaszary as Torday nőrokona

Andor Heltai as Cigányprímás

Béla Mihályffi as Mr. Benedek

Sándor Peti as Kárpáthi úr

Annie Réthy as Benedek felesége

Mary Vágó as Benedek lánya

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Also known as Mámi

Notable quotes

“How vastly important is it, then, for mothers to have a higher regard for their duties—to feel deeply the immense responsibilities that rest upon them! It is through their ministrations that the world grows worse or better.”
— Timothy Shay Arthur, The Mother’s Rule; or, The Right Way and the Wrong Way (1856), Preface
“I saw that God rejoiceth that He is our Father, and God rejoiceth that He is our Mother, and God rejoiceth that He is our Very Spouse and our soul is His loved Wife. And Christ rejoiceth that He is our Brother, and Jesus rejoiceth that He is our Saviour. These are five high joys, as I understand, in which He willeth that we enjoy; Him praising, Him thanking, Him loving, Him endlessly blessing.”
— Julian of Norwich, in Revelations of Divine Love (c.1393), Ch. 58
“A Kanga is Generally Regarded as One of the Fiercer Animals. I am not frightened of Fierce Animals in the ordinary way, but it is well known that, if One of the Fiercer Animals is Deprived of Its Young, it becomes as fierce as Two of the Fiercer Animals.”
— A. A. Milne, in Winnie-the-Pooh (1926)
“A child should behave with modesty toward his mother.”
— Sumerian proverb from Urim, Text online at , .
“Wives haven't enough to do today. Scientific mass production has made their tasks so easy that they are overburdened with time. They utilize this time in destroying the happiness of their children.”
— John B. Watson as quoted in Buckley, K.W. (1989). Mechanical Man: John Broadus Watson and the Beginnings of Behaviorism. New York: The Guilford Press. p.162
“Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of children.”
— William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Volume II, Chapter XII.

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