This very clever and intelligent premise is performed by an extraordinary cast.
There are only two flaws: 1) All the characters are supposed to be Hungarian, but the daughter of the Count and Countess Sandor is the only one with an accent -- and the actress is actually French.
2) No time is set for the story, although it might be contemporary with its production, which is late 1930s, but there is both alleged poverty in the country, though never shown, and wasteful extravagance by the aristocracy. The cure offered for this situation will probably sound familiar to anyone watching the Democrat presidential primary race in 2019: government control and redistribution.
However, the opposition party wanting to end the poverty-stricken situation does want lower taxes, putting it in opposition to the 2019 Democrat Party, also.
There is some wonderful and moving dialogue from the several writers, although the original author seems to be Leslie Bush-Fekete, who probably deserves most of the credit.
Britain went through its class upheaval after The Great War, or World War I, since "mere" servants sometimes became officers while the sons of aristocracy were privates who had to take orders from "the lower classes" and, after the war, it was impossible for that class-distinction situation to return. ("Downton Abbey" dealt beautifully with that premise.)
How conditions and situations in Hungary were, a better historian will have to tell us. But however accurate "The Baroness and the Butler" is, there is truth here even if the facts are wrong.
There is a good print at YouTube and I highly recommend "The Baroness and the Butler" for a poignant and inspiriting 80 minutes.
There are only two flaws: 1) All the characters are supposed to be Hungarian, but the daughter of the Count and Countess Sandor is the only one with an accent -- and the actress is actually French.
2) No time is set for the story, although it might be contemporary with its production, which is late 1930s, but there is both alleged poverty in the country, though never shown, and wasteful extravagance by the aristocracy. The cure offered for this situation will probably sound familiar to anyone watching the Democrat presidential primary race in 2019: government control and redistribution.
However, the opposition party wanting to end the poverty-stricken situation does want lower taxes, putting it in opposition to the 2019 Democrat Party, also.
There is some wonderful and moving dialogue from the several writers, although the original author seems to be Leslie Bush-Fekete, who probably deserves most of the credit.
Britain went through its class upheaval after The Great War, or World War I, since "mere" servants sometimes became officers while the sons of aristocracy were privates who had to take orders from "the lower classes" and, after the war, it was impossible for that class-distinction situation to return. ("Downton Abbey" dealt beautifully with that premise.)
How conditions and situations in Hungary were, a better historian will have to tell us. But however accurate "The Baroness and the Butler" is, there is truth here even if the facts are wrong.
There is a good print at YouTube and I highly recommend "The Baroness and the Butler" for a poignant and inspiriting 80 minutes.