director: Márton Garas
year: 1921
country: Hungary

synopsis: Whilst visiting the carnival on its last night, Sir Richard Dennis encounters Sir Mortimer Talbot, his wife Mary and her younger sister Margaret. Richard falls instantly in love with Mary and vice versa. One day while Mortimer is away, Richard visits Mary at her home. When Mortimer arrives back unexpectedly, Richard, in order not to disgrace Mary, tells him that he is actually there to propose to her sister Margaret. Richard by necessity then enters into a loveless marriage with Margaret, leaving them both unhappy. One day he finds a letter from his wife written to a man called “French”. She has written to propose a rendezvous the following Saturday while Richard is out shooting. Overcome by jealousy, Richard goes to the meeting point and lies in ambush with a gun, hoping to kill the mysterious French. However, Margaret reveals that the man is really her brother, Montgomery, who has just returned from India to take Richard to task for having married Margaret without loving her. From the ordeal, Richard realises his genuine love for Margaret.
[Adapted and expanded from the comment posted by Gyöngyi Balogh here on LOST FILMS on 18th February 2009]

additional titles: Carnival Dizziness (English Translation); Faschingsrausch (Original Release Title, Germany & Austria)
screenplay: Antal Radó
director of photography: István Eiben
cast: Oszkár Dénes (Sir Mortimer Talbot), Erzsi B. Marton (Mary, his wife), Ica von Lenkeffy (Margaret, Mary's younger sister), Szvetiszláv Petrovits (Sir Richard Dennis), Kálmán Zátony (Sir French, Margaret's brother), Cia Jatzkó
production company: Corvin Filmgyár, Budapest
distributor: Corvin Filmgyár, Budapest (Hungary & Austria); Westfalia-Film A.G., Berlin, for Vicor-Film A.G., Berlin (Germany)
length: 1389m in 5 Acts (Hungary); ca.1500m in a Prologue & 4 Acts (Austria); 1575m (uncensored) / 1567.6m (censored) in a Prologue & 5 Acts (Germany)
format: 35mm, 1.33:1
picture/sound: b/w, silent
censor's certification: Suitable only for viewers aged 16 and up (Hungary); Forbidden to people of school age (Austria); Forbidden to children and youths (Germany)
première: 4th November 1921 at the Corso & Mozgókép-Otthon cinemas, Budapest (Hungary); 2nd November 1922 at the Richard-Oswald-Lichtspiele, Berlin (Germany)
release: 28th April 1922, Vienna (Austria)
[Compiled from the primary documents available to view, right, with additional information from: Belügyi Közlöny (Weekly Periodical of the Hungarian Ministry for Home Affairs), No. 46, 1921, p.2008; Film-Kurier, Vol. 4, No. 244, Friday 3rd November 1922]

Source notes
Magyar Nemzeti Filmarchívum / Hungarian National Film Archive
and
Deutsche Kinemathek - Museum für Film und Fernsehen

This is one of 38 Hungarian silent films known only to survive as short fragments, which give only a vague impression of the original work. Of approximately 600 Hungarian feature films believed to have been produced between 1911 and 1930 only 51 are known to exist in more or less complete form. The vast majority still outstanding must for now be considered completely lost. For this reason every metre that can be recovered is of great value to the Hungarian National Film Archive, which has the duty to safeguard Hungary's film heritage for the future. The significance of this fragment was revealed when it was identified by Gyöngyi Balogh in February 2009 from a selection of images posted on LOST FILMS by the Deutsche Kinemathek. In 2010 the Deutsche Kinemathek donated the fragment to the Hungarian National Film Archive, which has produced new preservation and screening elements together with the Hungarian Film Lab. A video version, produced especially for LOST FILMS by the Hungarian National Film Archive and the Deutsche Kinemathek, is now available to view in addition to a range of other documents kindly supplied by different European archives. Making these documents available online hopefully not only serves to inform a wider public about this sadly still lost film but in so doing may also improve the chances of the rest of the film turning up one day.