HUNGARIAN PREMIERE — The Garden of Eden at Budapest Classics Film Marathon

Toni’s journey starts from Vienna and via Budapest leads all the way to Monte Carlo where she gets it in her head to swap the pretzel counter of the gemütliche bakery for the glittering stage of the Opera. The kind, naive girl finds herself tricked in the Hungarian capital but things turn around when she receives an unexpected offer. Lewis Milestone’s film is a light Hollywood comedy about the world of aristocrats lounging about in glossy hotels, and it proves that solidarity amongst women – irrespective of social standing – is capable of achieving anything. The screenwriter, Hanns Kräly, who was a close colleague of Lubitsch on numerous hit pictures, doesn’t omit to add a dash of European humour here either.