Known for Acting
An ambitious theatre director arrives in Gyulaháza from the capital. The aim of the young Debrődy is to shake up the locals and turn the life of the town upside down.
A "fusspot" material handler begins courting the daughter of a supposed "attaché". This leads to complications, but in the end everything is sorted out.
The story, which takes place in the reform era, centres around Mrs. Déry, a legendary actress, who, along with her fellow actors and actresses, travels around the country to become the herald of the Hungarian language, performing in villages and towns up and down the land as strolling players, a woman who is not put off by the prospect of starvation and the dearth of a home to return to and security to live in.
In the story, the golden watch is a metaphor: life of an individual for whom honesty is of real value. Uncle Bogdán is the one to have the golden watch, which is all the "fortune" he has, apart from Juci, his only daughter, who supports him
Tamás, on leave from the front line, and Mária, a red-cross nurse, spend an unforgettable night together in the aftermath of Tamás's disappointment at the unfaithfulness of his fiancée.
Miklós Kátay, a spoiled, peppery gentleman, changes to his advantage when he joins the military. He is helped by his old acquaintance, Sergeant Menyhért, who is courting his cook, and a new recruit, Balázs, who becomes his friend. In the barracks, he chats and chats at first, but at the front, where he is now an ensign, he is a hero. He is welcomed back by his friend Éva, the Colonel's ugly niece, and by another Éva, the beautiful daughter of a retired Colonel.
After even his seventh fiancée dismisses him, Pali, longing for marriage and four children, falls in love with a Siamese diseuse and decides to marry her.
The famous woman singer is touring the country. Following the advice of the chamber maid in the hotel, she counts the corners of the windows in her room to have all her dreams come true. The next day she wakes up, frightened of the prospect of her bad dream, which was full of scandals and chases, and finally a marriage, come true.
A painter and a composer, twins and both of them carefree, live their life in dire straits, which does not make them unhappy. The are waiting for success to solve their financial problems, but success is in no hurry to reach out for them.
