In recent years, the fate of Hungarians living outside Hungary’s borders has been studied by that country’s historians with growing interest. The same interes thas traced the history of Magyar emigrants to Latin America. This research, done mainly by Ilona Varga and by membersof the Latin American History Research Groupat Jozsef Attila University, revealed several important aspectsof the historyof Hungarians living in South America. Now that a historical overview has been provided, it is important to present more specific perspectives on the lives of individual emigrants. Accordingly, this study traces the career of Rudolf Icsey, an outstanding Hungarian-born cinematographer who emigrated to Brazil.
