Synopsis

A poor man sends his three sons to work as servants, in order to attain nice clothes, wine and a wife. The faith of the smallest boy, Martin, is the hardest, as he performs his task on a toad, but after all his award will be the nicest possible. The toad was in fact a transfigured princess, and Martin thus becomes a king.

Mária Horváth

Mária Horváth (1952) graduated as a goldsmith at the Vocational Middle School of Arts in Pécs. In 1971 she joined the Kecskemét Film Studio in its infancy. She has two daughters, two granddaughters, as well as some film plans that have yet to be realised. In 1990, she received the Balázs Béla Award. In her films she strives to create a synthesis of poetry and animation. She has received many awards for her films Miracles of the Night (1982), Door 8 (1983), Hungarian Folk Tales II (1985), Wide Man’s Friends (1995), Songs of Small People (1996), Hungarian Folk Tales Series VI (2002), and many others.