The Gyurkovics Boys
About The Gyurkovics Boys
Mr. and Mrs. Gyurkovics have a dozen children. The eldest are the twins Géza and Bandi, played by Gösta Ekman and Nils Asther, who are due to sit their matriculation exam. On the day, Géza will not appear, and the principal's men drag him in. After their father dies, Bandi takes over the family property and Géza becomes an officer cadet in a garrison town nearby. Around them are Jutka Brenóczy, Colonel Brenóczy, and the baroness played by Pauline Brunius.
Cast & crew
More about The Gyurkovics Boys
John W. Brunius directed this five-act comedy from Ferenc Herczeg's 1895 novel A Gyurkovics-fiúk. Pauline Brunius and Gösta Ekman wrote the script. Skandia's own film bureau distributed it. Hugo Edlund photographed it.
Themes
Making
Ekman both co-wrote the film and played Géza. Asther, in an early leading part, plays the twin who stays with the property.
Look
Hugo Edlund photographed the five-act comedy for Skandia.
Preservation
A print survives and is on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- It opened on 20 September 1920 at the Victoria in Gothenburg, the Skandiabiografen in Norrköping, the Skandia in Västerås, and the Sture-Teatern in Stockholm. Svenska Dagbladet carried the date.
- Herczeg's novel is about the boys. A different Herczeg story, A Gyurkovics lányok, is about their sisters.
- Gucken Cederborg plays Mother Gyurkovics and Julius Hälsig plays the father.
- Pauline Brunius, the director's wife, plays Baroness Hetvics-Janky and shares the screenplay credit.
- A Wikimedia copy runs about 1 hour 21 minutes.
Scenes
- Géza refuses to go in for the exam, and the principal's men haul him to the ceremony.
- After the father dies, Bandi stays with the estate and Géza leaves for the garrison.
Influenced by
- Ferenc Herczeg's novel A Gyurkovics-fiúk (1895)
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Gyurkovicsarna (1920).webm)
