Rose's Songs - Cast

Rose's Songs (2003)
98 min | Drama

Rose's Songs (2003)

98 min | Drama

Autumn 1944. Yellow star, ghettos, Arrow Cross terror. The inhabitants of Hungary's capital, Budapest, await the tragic fulfilment of their fate with helpless resignation. However, above one of the city's villas, once a week in the evening...See moreAutumn 1944. Yellow star, ghettos, Arrow Cross terror. The inhabitants of Hungary's capital, Budapest, await the tragic fulfilment of their fate with helpless resignation. However, above one of the city's villas, once a week in the evening the stars of hope sparkle, if only for a few minutes. This short time gives fresh heart to those hiding here and kindles hope in their tortured souls to live for another day. This mysterious power is none other than a beautiful song that can be heard at such times from the villa's tower room. Géza Halász, the villa's always jovial caretaker, believes no Jew has reason to fear while the owner of the voice, Imre Rose, the world-famous opera singer and a Jew himself, remains in Budapest and does not flee from the country in spite of his American, British, Swiss, Swedish and Vatican connections. Halász visits the singer every Friday to dine with him. After a while the marvellous, hope-inspiring concert starts, which is listened to by the hiding inhabitants of the house with enraptured faces through the villa's open dumb waiter. Already in the "palmy years of peacetime" Rose had competed with Csortos, the famous actor, for the title of "Budapest's Greatest Misanthrope". Thus it does not surprise anybody that the eccentric singer never, not even once, tries to make contact with his fellow Jews who took refuge in his house. And when Halász recounts that the singer swore within an hour of the Arrow Cross's seizing power that he would not utter a single word nor cross the threshold of his tower room until "Andrássy Avenue has been purged of this Arrow Cross scum", even the slightest suspicion about Rose's "invisibility" vanishes. Only a fourteen-year-old boy, Tommy, the caretaker's son, listens to the weekly song with curiosity combined with suspicion, and tries to find out about the secret of the tower room. As a result of the adolescent's persistent and undaunted inquiries, the opera singer's mystery is unveiled. Meanwhile, however, almost unnoticed, the events of the calamitous days, filled with excitement and cheerfulness, turn the boy into a truly adult man. The story of THE SONGS OF RÓZSA is based on true events. Written by Gábbbor See less

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26 cast members

Name	Known for
Franco Castellano Halász Géza Halász Géza See fewer	La piovra (1984)
Viktor Baradlay Tomi (voice) Tomi (voice) See fewer	Colossal Sensation! (2004)
David Zum Tomi Tomi See fewer	A hullamosó szerelme (2009)
Ildikó Bánsági Lili Lili See fewer	Passion (1998)
Djoko Rosic Nagypapa Nagypapa See fewer	Gypsy Lore (1997)
Maia Morgenstern Olga Olga See fewer	The Passion of the Christ (2004)
Enikõ Szilágyi Olga (voice) Olga (voice) See fewer	The Secret of Bacchus (1984)
Kati Patocskai Juló Juló See fewer	Rose's Songs (2003)
Petra Váradi Zsuzsó Zsuzsó See fewer	Rose's Songs (2003)
Éva Tímár Vera Vera See fewer	Bondage (1968)
Zoltán Gera Waltz Waltz See fewer	Victory (1981)
Ági Margitai Waltzné Waltzné See fewer	Jakob the Liar (1999)
Enikö Börcsök Irén (as Börcsök Enikõ) Irén (as Börcsök Enikõ) See fewer	Passport (2001)
Piroska Molnár Bödõ mama Bödõ mama See fewer	Rinaldó (2003)
Gabriella Gubás Magda (as Gubás Gabi) Magda (as Gubás Gabi) See fewer	You or Me (1999)
Péter Blaskó Skubala Skubala See fewer	A három növér (1991)
István Jánosi Árpád Árpád See fewer	Barátok közt (1998)
Géza Balkay Német õrmester Német õrmester See fewer	Red Heat (1988)
András Frigyesi Német õrmester (voice) Német õrmester (voice) See fewer	Der letzte Mentsch (2013)
Dénes Ujlaky Nyilas Nyilas See fewer	Széchenyi napjai (1985)
Zoltán Mucsi Menetvezetõ Menetvezetõ See fewer	Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)
Edit Soós Házvezetõnõ Házvezetõnõ See fewer	Gyalog a mennyországba (1959)
Ferenc Kállai Kalmár bácsi Kalmár bácsi See fewer	The Witness (1969)
Adél Kováts Nõ a villamoson Nõ a villamoson See fewer	Metamorphosis (I) (2007)
Péter Andorai Actor Actor See fewer	Simon, the Magician (1999)
Tamás Végvári Halász Géza (voice) Halász Géza (voice) See fewer	Daniel Takes a Train (1983)