History Animation / TreasureOfSwampCastle

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[[caption-width-right:281:Jónás with [[OneSteveLimit Szaffi]] and [[WeNamedTheMonkeyJack Szaffi]]]]

''The Treasure of Swamp Castle'', known as ''Szaffi'' in Hungary, a 1985 Hungarian animated film from Creator/PannoniaFilmStudio, directed by Attila Dargay (the person who also gave Hungarian audiences another beloved cartoon, ''Animation/VukTheLittleFox''). It is based on and has music from Johann Strauss II's operetta ''The Gypsy Baron'', which is based on [[Literature/TheGypsyBaron the novel of the same title]] written in 1885 by Mór Jókai.

It has nothing to do with the Swamp Castle from ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail''.
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!!''The Treasure of Swamp Castle'' contains examples of:
* AllThatGlitters: The main [[AnAesop Aesop]] of the film.
* AllThereInTheScript: The Governor's name is Feuerstein, but he's [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep always referred to by his rank]] in the movie.
* AnachronismStew:
** The opening narration by Szaffi's foster mother starts with the siege of Temesvár, and she stated that the imperial army was led by "Eugene the Undefeateable". This likely refers to Prince Eugene of Savoy the most succesfull commander during the war of the Holy League that drove the Ottomans from most of Hungary in the last decades of the 17th century. Temesvár however would not be permanently captured by Habsburg forces until a 100 years later.
** Puzzola listed film reviews as one of his preferred crimes.
* AnimatedAdaptation: Of the above mentionad Johann Strauss operetta.
* AristocratsAreEvil: Baron Loncsár is a FatBastard with a spoiled daughter. The Governor is not an aristocrat, but has all intentions to become one.
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: The Governor's sidekick Puzzola gives the following list of his "preferred crimes" (at least in the original Hungarian dub):
-->''"Document forgery, poison brewing, money forgery, [[AnachronismStew film]] [[TakeThatCritics reviews]]..."''
* BearsAreBadNews: The Governor has a Bear Pit, where Jónás gets thrown in.
* BigBad: The Governor, whose search for the castle's treasure drives the plot.
* BrokenAesop: A mild example: the movie is quite {{Anvilicious}} on that the real treasure is not gold but love... and yet the protagonists [[spoiler: get the gold in the end]].
* BuriedTreasure: The Governor thinks there is some hidden in the castle.
* {{BFG}}: The cannon is so big it takes dozens of men to put the ball in the barrel.
* CoinOnAStringTrick: The guard is a recurring victim of this trope used as bribery, though it's done without the string.
* ConArtist: Jónás, while living with the gypsies, makes a living partly as a street performer, partly as this.
* CuteKitten: Szaffi the cat.
* DontTellMama: Puzzola is often worried what his mother will say if she learns about his crimes. [[spoiler: For a good reason: she's a torturer in Bologna's dungeons.]]
* DreadfulMusician: The Baron's daughter drives the flute player to tears.
* DragonWithAnAgenda: [[spoiler: When the Governor is about to shoot Jónás and Szaffi, Puzzola reveals he's a NotSoHarmlessVillain: he knocks out the Governor by opening his high pressure valve, takes his gun and attemts to claim the treasure for himself.]]
* {{Expy}}: The protagonist, Jónás looks very similar to the titular character of Literature/LudasMatyi, an earlier animated film of Attila Dargay. In Hungarian, they share the same voice actor too.
** Baron Loncsár, like the antagonist in Literature/LudasMatyi, is also a FatBastard aristocrat, and the two characters also share a voice actor.
* FantasticLightSource: When it's getting dark, Szaffi's foster mother summons some fireflies.
* FatBastard: The Baron.
* FauxAffablyEvil: Baron Loncsár is a friendly, jovial person. He also suggests to the Governor to kill Jónás in cold blood because he's not a suitable suitor to his daughter Arzéna.
* FedToTheBeast: The Governor and Puzzola attempt to feed Jónás to a [[BearsAreBadNews bear]].
* FriendToAllLivingThings: The Szaffi's foster mother, the gypsy, and, later, Szaffi herself.
* GodivaHair: Szaffi bathing.
* HarmlessVillain: The Governor's henchman Puzzola has multiple murder attempts fail.
* HighPressureEmotion: The Governor is a LiteralMetaphor example--his pressure valve has to be released when he gets mad.
* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Eugene of Savoya in the battle scene that opens the movie.
* HotGypsyWoman: Subverted, as Szaffi not actually gypsy - she is a Turkish princess raised by a (probably) gypsy lady.
* HotWitch: The protagonist believes Szaffi is this.
* InnocentFanserviceGirl: In her first scene as a grown-up, Szaffi bathes with her [[FriendToAllLivingThings animal friends]] completely naked (covered up with some SceneryCensor and GodivaHair). However, she puts on some clothes when she sees a man showing up.
* InstantMessengerPigeon: Averted with the Baron's messenger pigeon, which fails to deliver the message due to being attacked by Szaffi the cat.
* KarmaHoudini: The Baron. While [[spoiler: he tells the Governor to kill the boy when he fails to court his daughter]], he doesn't get punished.
* KitschCollection: The Baron's palace: the garden has a foutain with winged pigstatues, the palace itself is vaguely shaped like a pig, and is painted bright pink, the hall is full of pigs (live and statues both), and when Jónás arrives, the Baron is modelling with a bunch of his pigs for a painter, who's making a gigantic portrait of them.
* MeaningfulName:
** The Governor's name, Feuerstein, means "fire-stone" or "flint", matching his fiery temper.
** Also, Arzéna's name means "arsenic".
* MessyPig: Subverted. The Baron (implied to have bought his nobel title after getting rich as a swine merchant) surrounds himself with a lot of pigs, who however are as clean as someonelse's dogs would be. One of them however does happily rummage through the painter's collection of colored paints.
* MissingMom: Jónás and Szaffi both escape with their fathers when they are children; their mothers aren't seen anywhere.
* MosesInTheBulrushes: Princess Szaffi is lost in the flood at the beginning, and adopted by gypsies.
* NakedPeopleAreFunny: The guard, falling victim for the CoinOnAStringTrick, takes off all his clothes in search for the coin.
* NamedWeapons: The [[{{BFG}} giant cannon]] in the opening siege scene is called [[BrawnHilda Brunhilda]].
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: While clumsy, Puzzola is a lot smarter and probably a lot more mean than the Governor, as he is the one suggesting him to kill the boy. He is admittedly an "intellectual criminal" rather than a murderer. [[spoiler: And in the end he turns against his master to claim the treasure for himself.]]
* OfCorsetsSexy: The Baron's daughter. Played for laughs, since she's rather unattractive otherwise.
* OneSteveLimit: Averted with Szaffi the girl and [[WeNamedTheMonkeyJack Szaffi the cat]].
* PleaseShootTheMessenger: In a variant, after Jónás fails to ask out the Baron's daughter, the father sends a letter via messenger pigeon to the Governor that he should kill Jónás. Szaffi the cat, however, attacks the pigeon and takes it to Jónás, who decides to deliver the letter himself, turning it into this situation.
* ReusedCharacterDesign: Jónás looks like an identical twin of the eponymous character of ''Animation/LudasMatyi'', even sharing a voice actor (András Kern) with him.
* RoguishRomani: Gypsies are portrayed as swindlers and thieves, but also [[LovableRogue kind-hearted people]] who raise both the protagonist and his love interest.
* SceneryCensor: Szaffi bathing again, it's a long scene.
* TakeThatCritics: In an ''very'' anachronistic gag, Puzzola mentions ''film reviews'' among his preferred crimes.
* TortureCellar: The Governor saved Puzzola from Bologna's dungeons. [[spoiler: He is returned there at the end of the movie - with his mother as the torturer.]]
* TheSiege: The film opens with the siege of Temesvár.
* SkinnyDipping: Szaffi's bathing scene.
* WeNamedTheMonkeyJack: A plot point, since the protagonist thinks the black cat is Szaffi because they share the same name. Subverted in that Szaffi, the girl is named after her baby sneeze, but it happens to be the same as the name of the old lady's cat.
* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: Puzzola is rather upset when he learns the Governor gave the castle to the protagonist instead of killing him.
* WorthlessTreasureTwist: [[spoiler: Averted. While the protagonists learn a lesson about that the real treasure is love, they get the Sultan's treasure anyway.]]
* WrongGirlFirst: Jónás initially wants to marry the Baron's daughter Arzéna, until he realizes his heart really belongs to Szaffi.
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''Treasure of Swamp Castle'' is the [[CompletelyDifferentTitle English-dubbed name]] of the movie ''Szaffi'', a 1985 Hungarian animated film from Creator/PannoniaFilmStudio, directed by Attila Dargay (the person who also gave Hungarian audiences another beloved cartoon, ''Animation/VukTheLittleFox''). It is based on, and has music from, Johann Strauss II's operetta The Gypsy Baron--which is based on the novel "A cigánybáró" (''The Gipsy Baron'') 1885 by Mór Jókai.

Has nothing to do with the Swamp Castle from ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail''.

!!This film contains examples of:

--> ''Document forgery, poison brewing, money forgery, [[AnachronismStew film]] [[TakeThatCritics reviews]]...''

** NotSoHarmlessVillain: While clumsy, Puzzola is a lot smarter and probably a lot more mean than the Governor, as he is the one suggesting him to kill the boy. He is admittedly an "intellectual criminal" rather than a murderer. [[spoiler: And in the end he turns against his master to claim the treasure for himself.]]

* MeaningfulName: The Governor's name, Feuerstein, means "fire-stone" or "flint", matching his fiery temper.

* UsefulNotes/{{Roma|ni}}: The protagonist's surrogate family. Possibly the old lady in the swamp too.

* AffablyEvil: Baron Loncsár is a friendly, jovial person. He also suggests to the Governor to kill Jónás in cold blood because he's not a suitable suitor to his daughter Arzéna.

* TheSiege: The film opens with one.

* AnachronismStew: The opening narration by Szaffi's foster mother starts with the siege of Temesvár, and she stated that the imperial army was led by the "Eugene the Undefeateable". This likely refers to Prince Eugene of Savoy the most succesfull commander during the war of the Holy League that drove the Ottomans from most of Hungary in the last decades of the 17th century. Temesvár however would not be permanently captured by Habsburg forces until a 100 years later.

* BigBad: The Governor.

[[caption-width-right:281:Jónás with [[NamesTheSame Szaffi]] and [[WeNamedTheMonkeyJack Szaffi]]]]

* MosesInTheBullrushes: Princess Szaffi is lost in the flood at the beginning, and adopted by gypsies.

[[caption-width-right:281:CuteKitten]]

* BearsAreBadNews: The Governor has a Bear Pit.

* HarmlessVillain: The Governer's henchman Puzzola has multiple murder attempts fail.

* AnachronismStew: The opening narration by Szaffi's foster mother starts with the siege of Temesvár, and she stated that the imperial army was led by the "Eugene the Undefeateable". This likely refers to Prince Eugege of Savoy the most succesfull commander during the war of the Holy League that drove the Ottomans from most of Hungary in the last decades of the 17th century. Temesvár however would not be permanently captured by Habsburg forces until a 100 years later.

* MessyPig: The Baron surrounds himself with a lot of them.

* CatsAreMean: Averted, Szaffi the cat is really nice.

* AdaptationSequence: This is a cartoon based on an operetta based on a novel.

''Treasure of Swamp Castle'' is the [[CompletelyDifferentTitle English-dubbed name]] of the movie ''Szaffi'', a 1985 Hungarian animated film from Creator/PannoniaFilmStudio, directed by Attila Dargay (the person who also gave Hungarian audiences another beloved cartoon, ''VukTheLittleFox''). It is based on, and has music from, Johann Strauss II's operetta The Gypsy Baron--which is based on the novel "A cigánybáró" (''The Gipsy Baron'') 1885 by Mór Jókai.

* {{Roma}}: The protagonist's surrogate family. Possibly the old lady in the swamp too.

* [[spoiler:DragonWithAnAgenda]]: [[spoiler: When the Governor is about to shoot Jónás and Szaffi, Puzzola reveals he's a NotSoHarmlessVillain: he knocks out the Governor by opening his high pressure valve, takes his gun and attemts to claim the treasure for himself.]]