KORDA FOR HUNGARY

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIX, 8 February 1936, Page 4

KORDA FOR HUNGARY

A £250,000 FILM

Alexander Korda, who has achieved so phenomenal a success in British films, is to make a number of films in his native Hungary. All will be for world release.

The first is to be “Tragedy of Man,” on which £250,000 will be spent. As a play it has been performed in many European cities with great success. But, so far, no film company has been able to face the expense of putting it on the screen.

The play was written between 1850 and 1860 by Imre Madach. It is only now beginning to attract widespread attention, although critics compare it with Faust. Its chief characters are Adam, Eve and Lucifer It has immense filmic possibilities. Lucifer, to show Adam and Eve the futility of human happiness, leads them through scenes in Egypt, Greece, Rome and Byzantium, in the time of the Crusades. Then they are taken to industrial London, to the Paris of the French Revolution, in a. sort of survey of history. Charles Laughton, it is. understood, will play Lucifer, and Leslie Howard and Merle Oberon will be cast as our primitive forefathers.