Ákos Tolnay Explained

Ákos Tolnay
Birth Date:	1903
Birth Place:	Szeged, Austro-Hungarian Empire
Death Date:	7 February 1981
Death Place:	Rome, Italy
Occupation:	Writer, Producer, Actor
Yearsactive:	1921-1959 (film)

Ákos Tolnay (1903–1981) was a Hungarian screenwriter active mainly in Italian cinema, having previously worked in Britain. He also appeared in Roberto Rossellini's 1945 neorealist film Rome, Open City.^[1]

Selected filmography

• The Scandal (1934)
• Temptation (1934)
• Drake of England (1935)
• The Avenging Hand (1936)
• Ball at Savoy (1936)
• Second Bureau (1936)
• Wings Over Africa (1936)
• Elephant Boy (1937)
• Return of a Stranger (1937)
• Thunder in the City (1937)
• The Wife of General Ling (1937)
• The White Slave (1939)
• Deputy Eusèbe (1939)
• The Brambilla Family Go on Holiday (1941)
• Caravaggio, il pittore maledetto (1941)
• Two Hearts Among the Beasts (1943)
• Tehran (1946)
• Call of the Blood (1948)
• Golden Madonna (1949)
• Voice of Silence (1953)
• A Parisian in Rome (1954)
• The Open Door (1957)
• The White Warrior (1959)

Bibliography

• Christopher Wagstaff. Italian Neorealist Cinema: An Aesthetic Approach. University of Toronto Press, 2007.

Notes and References

1. Wagstaff p.440