The ailing Ferenc Kossuth
Status: missing
Premiere: 17 November 1913 (newsreel No. 1.)
Pesti Napló, 15 November 1913
Background to film report:
Date:
Between 5-8 November 1913 (before 15 November 1913)
Location:
Fasor (Herczel) Sanatorium at Városligeti fasor 9., VII district, Budapest
Event:
The ailing Ferenc Kossuth, president of the Party of Independence and ’48, was moved to the sanatorium on the evening of 4 November in a critical condition. Here, he was examined by Dr. Herczel, a consultation was held and the leading politicians of the party, Mihály Károlyi and Albert Apponyi, as well as Mrs. Benyovszky Sándorné (later his bride, then wife) and mayor István Bárczy, paid him a visit. Over the following few days other politicians also visited and a few days later his brother, Lajos Tivadar Kossuth, arrived from Milan, where he rushed directly to his brother’s bedside.
Kino-Riport footage:
“The rapidly running pictures conclude with shots made of the ailing Ferenc Kossuth, the most valuable part of which is the few metres of film in which Lajos Tódor Kossuth, the younger brother of the stateman, can be seen as he leaves the sanatorium.”
Photographs relevant to the event:
Ferenc Kossuth in the gift album of the Pesti Napló, in the portrait gallery of the Associated Left Party and in the Tolnai Világlapja, 16 November 1913.
Source:
Világ, 1913. november 6.
Mozi-Világ, 1913. november 16.
Budapesti Hírlap, 1913. november 9.