Movies by Iván Petrovich

The Flower of Hawaii

The Flower of Hawaii

An adaptation of the operetta The Flower of Hawaii by Paul Abraham. It is based on the life of the last Queen of Hawaii Liliuokalani.

Elevator to the Gallows

Elevator to the Gallows

A self-assured businessman murders his employer, the husband of his mistress, which unintentionally provokes an ill-fated chain of events.

Machita

Machita

A female spy goes to Budapest to steal the plans of an anti-aircraft gun.

Galathea

Galathea

Farsangi mámor

Farsangi mámor

Heart of an Actress

Heart of an Actress

Desire brings out the worst in an actress' suitors-- One a well-to-do patron of London's theatre set, the other a lovestruck loner on the verge of penning a play dedicated to her.

Zentrale Rio

Zentrale Rio

Maria Halmborg is a widow. Her husband Erik - missing for years - is considered dead. Suddenly she learns that her husband allegedly lives in Rio and sets out on the journey to clarify the matter.

A tizennegyedik

A tizennegyedik

The Tsarevich

The Tsarevich

Based on the play and subsequent operetta of the same name.

The Garden of Allah

The Garden of Allah

Father Adrien had taken the vows of eternal silence, prayer and, of course, celibacy, when he entered the Trappist Monastry of Notre Dame d'Afrique in Algeria. One day, he chopped down a tree that blocked a part of the Monastery wall, but as it fell it knocked a young girl senseless. As Father Adrien bathes her face she regains consciousness and in a mischievous mood embraces him. The embrace was seen by another monk but the Monastic discipline imposed is as nothing compared to the torturing penances of mind and body which the contrite Fathe...