---
title: 'Two Half Times in Hell (1961)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Zoltán Fábri'
released: '1961-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 120
genres:
  - 'Drama'
countries:
  - 'Hungary'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/two-half-times-in-hell-1961'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0056160/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Two Half Times in Hell (1961)

1961 · 120 min · Drama · Hungary

Original title: Két félidő a pokolban

## Synopsis

Two Halves in Hell is a 1961 Hungarian war film directed and co-written by Zoltán Fábri. The film is based on a 1942 football match between German soldiers and their Soviet Ukrainian prisoners of war during World War II, known as the Death Match, although in the film the prisoners of war are Hungarian labour servicemen.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Zoltán Fábri](https://cinepixo.com/people/zoltan-fabri)
- **Screenplay:** [Zoltán Fábri](https://cinepixo.com/people/zoltan-fabri), [Péter Bacsó](https://cinepixo.com/people/peter-bacso)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Ferenc Farkas](https://cinepixo.com/people/ferenc-farkas)
- **Director of Photography:** [Ferenc Szécsényi](https://cinepixo.com/people/ferenc-szecsenyi)
- **Editor:** [Mária Szécsényi](https://cinepixo.com/people/maria-szecsenyi)

## Cast

- [János Koltai](https://cinepixo.com/people/janos-koltai)
- [János Rajz](https://cinepixo.com/people/janos-rajz)
- [Imre Sinkovits](https://cinepixo.com/people/imre-sinkovits)
- [Antal Farkas](https://cinepixo.com/people/antal-farkas)
- [Tamás Végvári](https://cinepixo.com/people/tamas-vegvari)
- [Tibor Molnár](https://cinepixo.com/people/tibor-molnar)
- [Zoltán Gera](https://cinepixo.com/people/zoltan-gera)
- [Gyula Benkő](https://cinepixo.com/people/gyula-benko)
- [János Görbe](https://cinepixo.com/people/janos-gorbe)
- [Béla Barsy](https://cinepixo.com/people/bela-barsy)
- [László Márkus](https://cinepixo.com/people/laszlo-markus)
- [Dezső Garas](https://cinepixo.com/people/dezso-garas)
- [István Egri](https://cinepixo.com/people/istvan-egri)

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Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/two-half-times-in-hell-1961
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