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2	[[caption-width-right:281:Jónás with [[OneSteveLimit Szaffi]] and [[WeNamedTheMonkeyJack Szaffi]]]]
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4	''The Treasure of Swamp Castle'', known as ''Szaffi'' in Hungary, is 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.
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6	It has nothing to do with the Swamp Castle from ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail''.
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8	!!''The Treasure of Swamp Castle'' contains examples of:
9	* AllThatGlitters: The main lesson of the film is that the real treasure is love and friendship, not gold and jewels.
10	* AllThereInTheScript: The Governor's name is Feuerstein, but he's [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep always referred to by his rank]] in the movie.
11	* AnachronismStew:
12	Puzzola listed film reviews as one of his preferred crimes.
13	* AnimalDisguise: When Jónás gets thrown in the Governor's bear pit, he learns that what seems to be the bear is actually a gypsy wearing a bear skin. The gypsy, who is an old friend of Jónás, was hired to guard the pit, but didn't get any salary, so he ate the bear and started wearing its skin. He then helps Jónás escape the pit by dressing him up as the bear and pretending to take him for a walk.
14	* AnimatedAdaptation: Of the above mentionad Johann Strauss operetta.
15	* AristocratsAreEvil: Baron Loncsár is a FatBastard with a spoiled daughter. The Governor, the BigBad of the film, is not an aristocrat yet, but has all intentions to become one.
16	* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: The Governor's sidekick Puzzola gives the following list of his "preferred crimes" (at least in the original Hungarian dub):
17	-->''"Document forgery, poison brewing, money forgery, [[AnachronismStew film]] [[TakeThatCritics reviews]]..."''
18	* BearsAreBadNews: The Governor has a Bear Pit, where Jónás gets thrown in.
19	* BigBad: The Governor, whose search for the castle's treasure drives the plot.
20	* 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]].
21	* BuriedTreasure: The Governor thinks there is some hidden in the castle.
22	* {{BFG}}: The cannon is so big it takes dozens of men to put the ball in the barrel.
23	* CoinOnAStringTrick: The guard is a recurring victim of this trope used as bribery, though it's done without the string.
24	* ConArtist: Jónás, while living with the gypsies, makes a living partly as a street performer, partly as this.
25	* CuteKitten: Szaffi is a very sweet and friendly cat.
26	* 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.]]
27	* DreadfulMusician: The Baron's daughter drives the flute player to tears.
28	* 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.]]
29	* FantasticLightSource: When it's getting dark, Szaffi's foster mother summons some fireflies.
30	* FatBastard: Baron Loncsár is an extremely corpulent aristocrat with a pig theme, and has zero qualms about assassinating Jónás once he fails to court Arzéna.
31	* 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.
32	* FedToTheBeast: The Governor and Puzzola attempt to feed Jónás to a [[BearsAreBadNews bear]].
33	* FriendToAllLivingThings: The Szaffi's foster mother, the gypsy, and, later, Szaffi herself.
34	* GodivaHair: While Szaffi is bathing, her hair always tastefully covers her chest.
35	* HarmlessVillain: The Governor's henchman Puzzola has multiple murder attempts fail.
36	* HighPressureEmotion: The Governor is a LiteralMetaphor example--his pressure valve has to be released when he gets mad.
37	* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Eugene of Savoya in the battle scene that opens the movie.
38	* HotGypsyWoman: Subverted, as Szaffi not actually gypsy - she is a Turkish princess raised by a (probably) gypsy lady.
39	* HotWitch: The protagonist believes Szaffi is this.
40	* 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.
41	* InstantMessengerPigeon: Averted with the Baron's messenger pigeon, which fails to deliver the message due to being attacked by Szaffi the cat.
42	* 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.
43	* 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.
44	* MagicalRomani: Caffrinka, the old gypsy woman living in the swamp, is believed to be a witch, and Jónás believes that her adopted daughter, Szaffi, can turn into a cat.
45	* MeaningfulName:
46	** The Governor's name, Feuerstein, means "fire-stone" or "flint", matching his fiery temper.
47	** Also, Arzéna's name means "arsenic".
48	* 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.
49	* MissingMom: Jónás and Szaffi both escape with their fathers when they are children; their mothers aren't seen anywhere.
50	* MosesInTheBulrushes: Princess Szaffi is lost in the flood at the beginning, and adopted by gypsies.
51	* NakedPeopleAreFunny: The guard, falling victim for the CoinOnAStringTrick, takes off all his clothes in search for the coin.
52	* NamedWeapons: The [[{{BFG}} giant cannon]] in the opening siege scene is called [[BrawnHilda Brunhilda]].
53	* 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.]]
54	* OfCorsetsSexy: The Baron's daughter. Played for laughs, since she's rather unattractive otherwise.
55	* OneSteveLimit: Averted with Szaffi the girl and [[WeNamedTheMonkeyJack Szaffi the cat]].
56	* 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.
57	* ReusedCharacterDesign: Jónás looks like an identical twin of the eponymous character of ''Animation/LudasMatyi'', even sharing a voice actor (András Kern) with him.
58	* RoguishRomani: Gypsies are portrayed as swindlers and thieves, but also [[LovableRogue kind-hearted people]] who raise both the protagonist and his love interest.
59	* SceneryCensor: Szaffi bathing again, it's a long scene.
60	* TakeThatCritics: In an ''very'' anachronistic gag, Puzzola mentions ''film reviews'' among his preferred crimes.
61	* 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.]]
62	* TheSiege: The film opens with the siege of Temesvár.
63	* SkinnyDipping: Szaffi's bathing scene.
64	* 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.
65	* WhyDontYouJustShootHim: Puzzola is rather upset when he learns the Governor gave the castle to the protagonist instead of killing him.
66	* WorthlessTreasureTwist: [[spoiler: Averted. While the protagonists learn a lesson about that the real treasure is love, they get the Sultan's treasure anyway.]]
67	* WrongGirlFirst: Jónás initially wants to marry the Baron's daughter Arzéna, until he realizes his heart really belongs to Szaffi.

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