Miss Arizona

Plot

Mitzi (Hanna Schygulla) turns to Sandor (Marcello Mastroianni) for help when her husband is murdered by right-wing extremists looking for a cache of diamonds. She and her young son escape with Sandor to Italy. By the 1930s, they return to Budapest to run the successful Arizona Club, a posh watering hole for the social elite. Mitzi falls for an American journalist, her son falls for a woman with ties to high-ranking Nazis, and Sandor is questioned about his Jewish heritage. The son learns he is half Jewish as the Nazi round-up and deportation begin. Uneven editing in places suggests that a lot of film ended up on the cutting-room floor. ~ Dan Pavlides, Rovi

Cast

• Marcello Mastroianni - Sandor Rozsnyai
• Hanna Schygulla - Mitzi
• Dorottya Udvaros - Zsuzsa
• Alessandra Martines - Marta
• Urbano Barberini - Stanley

Augusto Poderosi - German Officer; Sandor Zsoter; Juli Basti - Eva; Gabor Reviczky - Kardos; Dezso Garas - Aron; Karoly Eperjes - Pal; Pal Hetenyi - Stein

Credit

Pal Sandor - Director, Nino Baragli - Editor, Armando Trovajoli - Composer (Music Score), Elemer Ragalyi - Cinematographer, Gyorgy Kovacs - Sound/Sound Designer, Alfredo Giannetti - Screenwriter, Pal Sandor - Screenwriter

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