The latest film of Márta Mészáros, The Last Report on Anna, fits perfectly into the oeuvre of the Kossuth Prize winning director, bringing to the screen yet another woman’s fate. Following on from her famous Diary Trilogy and her film about Imre Nagy, Márta Mészáros still seeks her protagonists in twentieth century Hungarian history. In this film we gain insight into the life of Anna Kéthly, who according to the director is little known, despite being a multifaceted and fascinating woman, and a mesmerising character.
The latest film of Márta Mészáros, The Last Report on Anna, fits perfectly into the oeuvre of the Kossuth Prize winning director, bringing to the screen yet another woman’s fate. Following on from her famous Diary Trilogy and her film about Imre Nagy, Márta Mészáros still seeks her protagonists in twentieth century Hungarian history. In this film we gain insight into the life of Anna Kéthly, who according to the director is little known, despite being a multifaceted and fascinating woman, and a mesmerising character. The Last Report, however, is not just a historical film. The film’s focal point is not Anna Kéthly’s exceptional political career. We witness the protagonists not only at significant historical moments, but also in their private lives. Thus the director has put great emphasis on human fate, on presenting the private sphere and the day-to-day life of the era. The clash of love and creed, of everyday betrayals and exceptional fidelity play a crucial part in the story. The thrill of an adventurous life-path and the gripping emotional richness of a love story are essential elements of this film.
Director: Márta Mészáros
Screenplay: Éva Pataki, Márta Mészáros
D.O.P.: Novák Emil
Writer’s Consultant: András Szekér
Consultant: Miklós Jancsó
Music: Ferenc Kovács
Editor: Zsuzsa Csákány
Sound: István Sipos
Art Director: Tamás Banovich
Costume: Katalin Jancsó
Make-up: Magdolna Márta
Stills: Miklós Gáspár
Production Manager: Krisztina Bene
Line Producer: Erika Tarr
Producer: Pál Sándor
Produced by: Hunnia Filmstudio
Cast: Enikő Eszenyi, Ernő Fekete, Adél Kováts, György Cserhalmi, Gabriella Hámori, Zsuzsa Czinkóczi, Gábor Máté, Básti Juli, Seress Zoltán, Beata Fudalej, Tibor Gáspár, Frigyes Hollósi, Jákob Ladányi
2009, Hungarian feature film, colour, 35 mm
   
We stand in front of a shabby building. She thought this building would be sufficient reason for the court of guardians not to take away her children, and I thought that this building would be the ultimate reason for putting all six children into care.
We stand in front of a shabby building. She thought this building would be sufficient reason for the court of guardians not to take away her children, and I thought that this building would be the ultimate reason for putting all six children into care.
Five-year-old Livia and two-year-old Armando cling to her; the boy in her arms, the girl at her feet. Erzsike gave birth to nine other children; two of whom have come of age and have left home. The two little ones hanging off her are almost nude. Their mother too came from a life in care and Livia and Amado might be heading there. The vortex pulls people deep into it, and it easily sucks new lives into where the old ones came from.
Why is it so?
The film shot in Told and its vicinity for six months seeks an answer to this question.
Director: Csaba Szekeres,
D.O.P.: Csaba Szekeres
Sound: László Zalányi
Editor: Sándor Kiss
Creative Producer: John Oates
Producer: Pál Sándor
Co-Producer: The Open University (GB)
Production Company: Hunnia Filmstudio
2009, Hungarian documentary, colour, HD
"I’ll tear your nails off!” This is what a four-year-old kid furiously said to its brother of 17 when the older one wouldn’t let him throw his school books about.
"I’ll tear your nails off!” This is what a four-year-old kid furiously said to its brother of 17 when the older one wouldn’t let him throw his school books about.
There is no tact, no exchange of significant glances, and no frantic laughter about this gesture. The only thing that exists is nihilism – the sad disappearance of playfulness. This is how our involvement in the film Three Children Three Futures started. The word “involvement” might not be appropriate at this point, but it is a stronger and deeper relationship than just the professional commitment to a production’s principal photography. The film, which was shot in Pécs, Zákány, and Mezősas follows up the destinies, futures, and opportunities of three children and their families. It aims to give audiences an insight into the physical and mental development of children living in different circumstances, and to show how the development of children’s futures is determined by at nursery school age.
Director: Csaba Szekeres
D.O.P.: Csaba Szekeres
Editor: Sándor Kiss
Creative Producer: John Oates
Producer: Pál Sándor
Production Company: Hunnia Filmstudio on assignment of The Open University (GB)
2009, Hungarian documentary, colour, HD
The owners of two little shops – the boyish Photographer and the mature Hairdresser spend every night one secret hour together: they are having fun by making up weird stories.
The owners of two little shops – the boyish Photographer and the mature Hairdresser spend every night one secret hour together: they are having fun by making up weird stories.
One of these stories turns real and sweeps them away – straight into tragedy… or to the happy ending.
Director: András György Dési, Gábor Móray
Writer: András György Dési, Gábor Móray
D.O.P.: Sándor Csukás
Music: Peter Ogi
Editor: Noémi Mehrli
Sound: Imre Madácsi, Rudolf Várhegyi
Art Director: Péter Mátyássy
Costume: Judit Sinkovics
Make-up: Anikó Madarasi
Production Manager: Katalin Naszódi
Producer: Pál Sándor
Production Company: Hunnia Filmstudio
Cast: Vera Papp, Károly Hajduk, Zsolt Kovács, Kata Pető, Vince Zrinyi Gál, Péter Geltz, Gábor Rácz
2009, Hungarian short film, colour, HD
      
The subject of this film is a common problem of our time, loneliness, presented in the story of a mature woman and a ten-year-old boy.
The subject of this film is a common problem of our time, loneliness, presented in the story of a mature woman and a ten-year-old boy.
The short film approaches the subject by introducing us to the strategies the woman uses to tackle her loneliness. Her remedy is extreme, but harmless at the same time. Extreme, because in choosing to celebrate the feast of love, not on the prescribed day but on any and all days of the year, she creates a grotesque situation. However, she has no partner to celebrate with. Each time, therefore, she brings a random stranger from the street to give a present to. The film is a story of two characters, but there is also a third protagonist, the street, the tram stop and the people waiting there. Through one person’s small, strange but personal story, we are shown the loneliness of many.
Director: Mihály Schwechtje
Writer: Mihály Schwechtje
D.O.P.: Máté Herbai
Music: Tibor Kiss
Editor: Lili Makk
Sound: Imre Madácsi, János Csáki
Production Designer: Csaba Stork
Costume: Zsófia Balog
Make-up: Anikó Madarasi
Production Manager: Katalin Naszódi
Producer: Pál Sándor, Katalin Naszódi
Production Company: Hunnia Filmstudio
Cast: Roland Labán, Judit Rezes, Enikő Börcsök
2009, Hungarian short film, colour, HD
 
The film is a vision: a composer is watching and listening to archive films about different forms of destruction, which inspire him to compose his music.
The film is a vision: a composer is watching and listening to archive films about different forms of destruction, which inspire him to compose his music.
The recording of his “composition” by a symphony orchestra is a great success, and then by a turn of fate, an officer uses this music as background for a subsequent destruction – in the crowd facing execution there is the composer and his family.
Director: Árpád Sopsits
Writer: Árpád Sopsits
D.O.P.: Márk Győri
Music: Péter Tóth
Editor: Zsolt Hájos
Sound: Major Csaba
Production Designer: Árpád Sopsits
Costume: Árpád Sopsits
Make-up: Anikó Madarasi
Production Manager: Katalin Naszódi
Producer: Pál Sándor
Production Company: Hunnia Filmstudio
Cast: János Antal, Zsolt Anger, Mercédesz Érsek-Obádovics, Boglárka Dosztár
2009, Hungarian short film, colour, HD
   
This film is about the despair deeply hidden in children’s soul, and about the ever increasing, ever more brutal and unintelligible destruction of ourselves and each other. We are conditioned and comfortable to think that our children are innocent, though evil also lurks in a child’s soul and as children are vulnerable and easy to manipulate they can become victims (as in certain sects and Satanism).
This film is about the despair deeply hidden in children’s soul, and about the ever increasing, ever more brutal and unintelligible destruction of ourselves and each other. We are conditioned and comfortable to think that our children are innocent, though evil also lurks in a child’s soul and as children are vulnerable and easy to manipulate they can become victims (as in certain sects and Satanism).
This is an issue of worldwide relevance. The film is based on two unconceivable and tragic events that happened in Hungary in recent years. Primarily, the film would like to present the environment in which these things happened and could happen at all, and to deliver a kind of diagnosis of our time’s confused psyche. The story is about teenagers, the odd way in which they experience life and death at the stage when both sexual and mortal desires awaken.
Director: Árpád Sopsits
Screenplay: Árpád Sopsits
D.O.P.: Márk Gyõri
Music: Róbert Debreczeni
Editor: Mari Miklós
Sound: János Csáki
Costume: János Breckl
Make-up: Gabriella Vincze
Production Designer: Péter Varga
Stills: Zoltán Németh
Production Manager: Zsolt Valkony
Producer: Pál Sándor
Production Company: Hunnia Filmstudio
Cast: Benett Vilmányi, Tamás Erőss, Anna Vicsotka, László Krikkay, Gáspár Mesés, Tekla Magyar, Gábor Gavallér, Zsolt Trill, Imre Csuja, Zsolt László, Judit Danyi, Sándor Gáspár, Eszter Szakács, Dóra Létay, Péter Mátyássy, Lajos Kovács, Feró Nagy, Loránd Banner Szücs
2008, Hungarian feature film, colour 35 mm
Time passes as usal.
By-the-way it passes well, all too well.
There’s a heatwave, but eventually it’s getting dark.
Finally everything will be clear.
On a hot summer day a young boy and a girl are teasing each other in a villa at Lake Balaton.
While they are taking shower together, a middle-aged man, still in good shape, arrives unnoticed, and starts to terrorize the two young people. His evil plan is to force them to look into the sun under the solar eclipse blinding them while they make love.
Time passes as usal.
By-the-way it passes well, all too well.
There’s a heatwave, but eventually it’s getting dark.
Finally everything will be clear.
On a hot summer day a young boy and a girl are teasing each other in a villa at Lake Balaton.
While they are taking shower together, a middle-aged man, still in good shape, arrives unnoticed, and starts to terrorize the two young people. His evil plan is to force them to look into the sun under the solar eclipse blinding them while they make love.
The boy kills the man.
Another visitor arrives who looks very similar to the previous one. From the embarrassment and the apparent lies of the youngsters he reconstructs the story, and this generates a repeat of the previous situating. There’s a humiliating intellectual superiority on the visitor’s part, an attempt to bring about partnership, and to avoid becoming a victim on the two young people’s part. A thriller with three protagonists, a psychological game filled with inexplicable secrets, which shows the evil within us, and the guilty trying to escape from one sin by committing another.
Director: Tamás Zilahy
Writer: Gábor Németh, Tamás Zilahy
DOP: Frigyes B. Marton
Music: Róbert Erdész
Sound: András Vámosi
Editor: Gábor Rakoncza
Costume: Zsuzsa Balai
Make-up: Ági Varga
Production Manager: Andrea Duca
Producer: Pál Sándor
Production Company: Hunnia Filmstudio
Cast: Géza Hegedűs D, Cili Nagy, András Ötvös
2008, Hungarian short film, color, HD
The film shows two different situations of life, and chains of events tackled on the same level.
The film shows two different situations of life, and chains of events tackled on the same level.
The first one is the story of an ornithologist, Lajos Sz., killed in front of his daughters' eyes in the village of Olaszliszka in 2006, the parallel story is that of a 13-year-old boy suffering of leukemia and the tribulations of his parents, when their child dies in a hospital in Budapest.
Director: András Jeles
D.O.P.: András Jeles
Editor: András Jeles
Production Manager: Andrea Duca
Producer: Pál Sándor
Production Company: Hunnia Filmstudio
2008, Hungarian documentary, colour, Beta SP
A 20 year old writer, an upcoming literary talent spends his days sitting at his typewriter, feverishly searching for a topic for his novel. All of a sudden it comes to him: he should write about an undercover spy in Budapest.
A 20 year old writer, an upcoming literary talent spends his days sitting at his typewriter, feverishly searching for a topic for his novel. All of a sudden it comes to him: he should write about an undercover spy in Budapest.
He immediately starts working, and the spy-story comes alive in the film. The imaginary episodes move along at a promising pace, though the writer must slip back to reality now and then. His dying grandmother keeps calling out for him from the other room yelling for lunch, and then his mother gets home from work at night. Sometimes strange visitors too, show up from the street, as it usually happens in every-day life. And then, following his imagination, the writer entwines one by one those real characters of his life into the story as the novel’s plot develops. The real hero of both worlds is the old woman, the terminally ill grandmother, who in her last hours imparts valuable life-lessons to his grandson, lost in his own literary world.
Director: Géza Bereményi
Writer: Géza Bereményi
D.O.P.: Sándor Kardos
Music: Horváth Károly
Editor: Mari Miklós
Sound: Attila Madaras
Production Designer: Péter Varga
Costume: Tímea Luzsi
Make-up: Magdolna Márta
Production Manager: Zsolt Valkony
Producer: Pál Sándor
Production Company: Hunnia Filmstudio
Co-Producer: MTV Zrt.
Cast: Mari Törőcsik, Illés Horváth, Juli Nyakó, Sándor Gáspár, Orsolya Holecskó
2008, Hungarian television film, Digibeta
The film’s story is based on a crime committed in Hungary: two teenage girls killed a taxi driver.
The film’s story is based on a crime committed in Hungary: two teenage girls killed a taxi driver. Using the news coverage of the murder, the director presents the fairly typical environment of a generation for which sex and sexuality has got a connotation unfamiliar to the rest of us. The traditional roles and taboos are long forgotten, and the shyness and sensibility linked to sensuality do not exist anymore. These young people consider their body a means to an end. In the story one generation encounters another, that of the taxi drivers, traditionally existing between the world of petty criminals and that of the middle class. There are two threads of the story: one showing the character
and surroundings of the two girls, the other the milieu of the taxi drivers.
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Director: Anna Faur
Writer: Anna Faur
D.O.P.: András Gondár
Music: Márton Hegedűs
Editor: Vanda Arányi
Sound: Tamás Zányi
Re-Recording Mixer: Tamás Márkus
Art Director: Adrienn Asztalos
Costume: Fruzsina Nagy
Stills: Márton Perlaki
Production Manager: Zsolt Valkony, Eszter Gyárfás
Producer: Sándor Pál
Production Company: Hunnia Filmstudio
Cast: Fulvia Collongues, Helene Francois, Sándor Zsótér, Roland Rába, Kornél Mundruczó, Andrea Fullajtár, Bori Péterfy, Tamás Polgár
2007, Hungarian feature film, colour, 35 mm
   
Based on István Örkény’s short novel
The short novel of István Örkény is not just about death, rather about life. About the advantages another person’s death might bring for different people. What sort of twists the soul, character and morals go through – when someone’s passing away is possibly resulting in huge advantages for the living.
Based on István Örkény’s short novel
The short novel of István Örkény is not just about death, rather about life. About the advantages another person’s death might bring for different people. What sort of twists the soul, character and morals go through – when someone’s passing away is possibly resulting in huge advantages for the living. Things preceding, going together with and following the process of dying makes the story’s surface. Things happening and whirling in the psyche make the depth of the story. This television film is about life struggling for better conditions and predominance ending up in death.
Living with her mother in a tiny apartment, Mrs. Mikó, who is dying, has to put up a suspiciously gipsy-looking family, so that somebody would take care of her nearly blind mother after she is gone.
Considering himself a second rate performer, the former TV star, J. Nagy, wishes to create something eternal by his death.
Director Áron Korom has got the chance to shoot a documentary about death. He is obsessed with making a true, complete and in every respect exact film in the hope for a better life, future and carrier. There is no sensibility, just professionalism. Even the death of the protagonists is about some sort of meeting expectations.
Director: József Pacskovszky
Writer: István Örkény
D.O.P.: Sándor Kardos
Editor: Anna Kornis
Sound: Ottó Oláh
Costume, Set: Mária Bozóki
Mask: Magdolna Márta
Production Manager: Zsolt Valkony
Producer: Pál Sándor
Produced by: Hunnia Filmstudio
Cast: Tamás Jordán, Piroska Molnár, Kornél Mundruczó, Anita Tóth, Anna Györgyi, Tibor Gáspár, Dani Gábor, György Gazsó, Gabriella Fon, Mrs. Terike Jónás, Lajos Tándor, Sándor Tóth, György Báron, Gergely Bikácsi, Teréz Rudolf, Hermina Fátyol
2007, Hungarian television film, color, 55
Four good old friends – all of them railroad men till the democratic transition – have become victims of the cut-downs. Many years pass, and when even the railroad station has been taken apart, the former stationmaster of the village Honos, Dezső Béke (József Szarvas) gets a notification from town to go to the central office.
Four good old friends – all of them railroad men till the democratic transition – have become victims of the cut-downs. Many years pass, and when even the railroad station has been taken apart, the former stationmaster of the village Honos, Dezső Béke (József Szarvas) gets a notification from town to go to the central office.The Hungarian Railroad Inc., MÁV has selected their sideline station as the checkpoint of the delivered goods. To get his friends (János Derzsi, Sándor Badár, Gábor Zelei) and himself odd jobs, Dezső Béke lies that the station still exists, and they are capable of performing the task. And this is when the madness starts...
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Director: András Szőke
Screenplay: András Szőke, Krisztián Grecsó
D.O.P.: Gábor Halász
Music: István Márta
Editor: Mari Miklós
Sound: János Csáki
Set: Péter Varga
Costume: Mónika Frankl, Zsuzsa Balai
Still Photo: Zoltán Havran
Production Manager: Zsolt Valkony
Producer: Pál Sándor
Co-producer: RTL Klub
Produced by: Hunna Film Studio
Cast: János Derzsi, József Szarvas, Gábor Zelei, Sándor Badár, Róbert Rostás, Irén Bordán, Dorina Martinovics, Judit Hernádi, Réka Farkasházi, András Szőke, István Márta, Tivadar Farkasházy, János Horváth, Todd Williams, Lívius Varga, Edina Petrovics, László Hunyadi, György Mikó, Ferenc Eichinger
2007, Hungarian feature film, color, 82 min, 35 mm
   
A block of flats in Budapest – Noah’s Ark. An old man, Ede Stock (Dezső Garas) raising his grandchild all by himself. A friendship – of many decades – with Aurél Tálas (Ferenc Kállai) who hasn’t stepped out of the house for 15 years. And a TV show where the country’s best grandpa can win 5 million forints.
A block of flats in Budapest – Noah’s Ark. An old man, Ede Stock (Dezső Garas) raising his grandchild all by himself. A friendship – of many decades – with Aurél Tálas (Ferenc Kállai) who hasn’t stepped out of the house for 15 years. And a TV show where the country’s best grandpa can win 5 million forints.Stock signs up, and the tenants of the house who have hated each other, prepare the old man for the show. Unnoticed, human relations develop. Unnoticed – for the sake of the mutual goal – hatred ceases, and the house becomes a community.
And Stock wins the 5 million.
And Stock’s wish of many decades comes true. He rides away on a Harley Davidson into infinity, with his eternal friend, Aurél Tálas.
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Director: Pál Sándor
Screenplay: Zsuzsa Tóth
D.O.P.1: Gábor Szabó
D.O.P.2: Gábor Marosi
Music: Yonderboi
Editor: Mari Miklós
Sound: Róbert Juhász
Costume Designer: János Breckl
Still Photo: Adrienn Szabó
Line Producers: Andrea Kormos, Erika Tarr
Producer: Pál Sándor
Co-producer: RTL Klub, Mafilm Rt.
Produced by: Hunnia Film Studio
Cast: Dezső Garas, Angéla Stefanovics, Ferenc Kállai, Mari Törőcsik, András Szőke, Sándor Badár, Győző Szabó, Péter Vida, Kata Bartsch, Attila Rónai, Irén Bordán, Tamás Jordán, Marika Oszwald, Zolee Ganxsta, Csaba Pindroch, Linda Verebes, Róbert Alföldi, Györgyi Kari, Mari Kiss, József Szarvas
2007, Hungarian feature film, color, 104 min, 35 mm
   
Hungary 1913. The story of the writer and doctor, Josef Brenner (Ulrich Thomsen) is a Faust-story of our times. Brenner works as a doctor in a mental clinic of the early last century. He has suffered a writing crisis for months; he is unable to put down even a single line on paper, and meanwhile becomes a morphine addict. One day he gets a new patient, the 28-year-old Gizella (Kirsti Stuboe). The mad woman, however, keeps writing all the time, she is addicted to her own diary, and is unable to put down her pen. The young woman increasingly gets obsessed with the compulsion to have been taken over by an alien and cruel power. Brenner becomes jelous of the woman.
Hungary 1913. The story of the writer and doctor, Josef Brenner (Ulrich Thomsen) is a Faust-story of our times. Brenner works as a doctor in a mental clinic of the early last century. He has suffered a writing crisis for months; he is unable to put down even a single line on paper, and meanwhile becomes a morphine addict. One day he gets a new patient, the 28-year-old Gizella (Kirsti Stuboe). The mad woman, however, keeps writing all the time, she is addicted to her own diary, and is unable to put down her pen. The young woman increasingly gets obsessed with the compulsion to have been taken over by an alien and cruel power. Brenner becomes jelous of the woman.She creates fanatically and ingeniously. The initial doctor-patient relationship gradually transforms: doctor and patient fall in love with each other, and sexual frenzy gets the upper hand in their relation. To make everything come true he has been incapable of so far, Brenner wants to enter a pact with the Evil through the woman’s body. The Evil, however, wants Brenner for himself body and soul. The doctor has to pay a big price for this alliance. In return Gizella asks him to cut out her brain, deliver her from Evil, and bring oblivion for her. Brenner has no choice. He must destroy Gizella: the one and only person he really loved.
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Director: János Szász
Screenplay: János Szász, András Szekér
D.O.P.: Tibor Máthé
Editor: Anna Kornis
Sound: István Sipos, Manuel Laval, Matthias Schwab
Art Director: Tibor Lázár
Costume Designer: János Breckl
Still Photo: Katalin Mészáros
Line Producers: Andrea Kormos, Erika Tarr
Producers: Pál Sándor, Andras Hamori
Co-Producer: EuroArts Filmed Entertainment GmbH
Produced by: Hunnia Film Studio
Cast: Ulrich Thomsen, Kirsti Stuboe, Zsolt László, Enikő Börcsök, Sándor Zsótér, Gyöngyvér Bognár, Roland Rába, László Kassai, Zoltán Szőllősi, Géza Szőllősi, Ákos Horváth, Miklós Mádl, Csaba Horváth, Dóra Rozsnyai, Erika Molnár, Kata Fekete, Roland Tzafetaas, Martina Kovács, Teréz Vass, Bori Blaskó, Kitty Fejes, Éva Juhász
2007, Hungarian feature film, color, 108 min, 35 mm
   
The two protagonists of the film, Olivér and Ficskó, are committed gastronomy critics passionately striving for the honor and outstanding quality of cookery. They keep lashing the bunglers and hawkers of the industry. The annoyed restaurant owners vow vengeance against them.
The two protagonists of the film, Olivér and Ficskó, are committed gastronomy critics passionately striving for the honor and outstanding quality of cookery. They keep lashing the bunglers and hawkers of the industry. The annoyed restaurant owners vow vengeance against them.They hire Milica, the snappy and fiery young manager girl to find out who The Lumnitzer Sisters – publishing their articles under a pseudonym – actually are. The annoyed restaurant owners ask Milica to render the two critics harmless, either by just bribing or enchanting them with her charm or at the very worst to kill them. The fierce battle between the Lumnitzer Sisters and Milica commences. This very special military operation creates quite a number of amusing situations and lots of great laugh.
Director: Péter Bacsó
Screenplay: Péter Bacsó
D.O.P.: Tamás Andor, Zsolt Tóth
Narrator: Zsolt László
Music: György Vukán
Singing: Charlie
Editor: Mari Miklós
Sound: Róbert Juhász
Art Director: Imre Czédly
Costume Designer: János Breckl
Fotó: Tamás Kende
Still Photo: Tamás Kende
Line Producer: Andrea Kormos
Producer: Pál Sándor, Dénes Szekeres
Produced by: Hunnia Film Studio, Tivoli-Filmproduction, VITHire Belgrade (Serbia-Montenegro), Mafilm Rt.
Cast: Róbert Alföldi, Péter Rudolf, Barbara Hegyi, Dorottya Udvaros, Győző Szabó
2006, Hungarian feature film, color, 103 min, 35 mm
    
There is a block-house somewhere in a Hungarian town, where the heating was cut off on the first of January due to the residents debts. For eight days nothing happens, everyone tries to survive the cold somehow. One day the city council`s officers visit the block, but they cannot promise anything. The father has a quarrel with his wife, and goes out for a walk. A crazy idea comes to his mind. After returning home he breaks the Christmas tree and sets a fire in the children’s room.
There is a block-house somewhere in a Hungarian town, where the heating was cut off on the first of January due to the residents debts. For eight days nothing happens, everyone tries to survive the cold somehow. One day the city council`s officers visit the block, but they cannot promise anything. The father has a quarrel with his wife, and goes out for a walk. A crazy idea comes to his mind. After returning home he breaks the Christmas tree and sets a fire in the children’s room.Producer: Pál Sándor, Miklós Bosnyák
Director: Áron Mátyássy
Writer: Áron Mátyássy
D.O.P: Márk Győri
Editor: Brigitta Peszleg, Áron Mátyássy
Music: Albert Márkos
Sound: Gábor Balázs
Production sound: Gergő Hornos
Art director: Edit Blaumann
Costume: Bea Hoffmann
Production manager: Zsolt Valkony
Cast: Éva Bandor, Krisztián Kovács, Teréz Vass, Mari Nagyi, Béla Spindler, Julcsi Mohácsi, Tihamér Váncza, Zsuzsa Gyurkovics
2006, Hungarian short film, 25 min., 35 mm
Pacskovszky’s recent film is a kind of continuation in the flow of his previous works, Our Love and The Color of Happiness. The series of stories taking place between the stars and the Earth is presented in a powerful and colorful visual world. Is it a lyric, a grotesque or an ironic film? Well, it is a bit of all of these, to the same extent our world is...
Pacskovszky’s recent film is a kind of continuation in the flow of his previous works, Our Love and The Color of Happiness. The series of stories taking place between the stars and the Earth is presented in a powerful and colorful visual world. Is it a lyric, a grotesque or an ironic film? Well, it is a bit of all of these, to the same extent our world is...Human fates in Heaven and on Earth. A Russian astronomer, a Russian rope dancer and an Italian illusionist. An old man with his ear cut off and a hairdresser. A black girl and a microbiologist. A murderer and a criminal psychologist. Budapest, Moscow, Rome.
Director: József Pacskovszky
Screenplay: József Pacskovszky, Pál Sándor, Francisco Gózon
D.O.P.: Francisco Gózon
Editor: Gabriella Koncz
Sound: György Kovács
Art Director: Imre Czédly
Costume Designer: Fruzsina Nagy
Still Photo: Judit Szlovák
Line Producer: Andrea Kormos
Co-producers: Palomar S.p.a. – Róma, 21st Century DreamQuest Films Ltd. – Toronto, MTV Rt., FilmArt
Producer: Pál Sándor
Cast: Natalia Szeliversztova, Dimitrij Pavlenko, Marco Bonini, Ildikó Tóth, Zsolt László, Nicolett Fosu, Csaba Pindroch, Ferenc Kállai, Eszter Balla, Anna Györgyi, Krisztina Csopej, Konsztantin Konov
2005, Hungarian feature film, color, 91 minutes, 35 mm
Awards:
- Hungarian Feature Film Festival – 2005: Prize for the Best Screenplay to József Pacskovszky, Pál Sándor, Francisco Gózon
A lonely man lives a comfortable life between his workplace and his cosy apartment. Until strange incidents derail the routine. The story is set in the future that could be the past too.
A lonely man lives a comfortable life between his workplace and his cosy apartment. Until strange incidents derail the routine. The story is set in the future that could be the past too.Director: Gábor Móray, András György Dési
Screenplay: Gábor Móray
D.O.P: Sándor Csukás
Music: Ogi
Editor: Péter Forgács
Sound: Rudof Várhegyi
Art Director: Imre Czédly
Special Effects: György Horváth
Producer: Kata Oláh
Executive Producer: Pál Sándor
Cast: Tünde Murányi, Péter Scherer
2005, Hungarian short film, color, 15 minutes, Beta SP
Awards:
- BUSHO – Budapest International Short Film Festival – 2005: First Prize
- 24. International Sci-Fi Film Festival (BIFFF) – Brusseles: 2006: Award for the Best Short Film
  
This film is an attempt to tell standard narrative stories deploying only legs.
This film is an attempt to tell standard narrative stories deploying only legs.The short film consists of five chapters each applying a different approach. The filmmakers want to explore, whether it is possible to experience everyday situations by just using legs instead of the traditional way of showing faces, hands and full bodies.
Director: Árpád Sopsits
D.O.P.: Francisco Gózon
Music: Árpád Sopsits
Editor: Béla Barsi
Sound: János Csáki
Line Producer: Andrea Kormos
Producer: Pál Sándor
Cast: Krisztián Susmán, non-professional actors
2004, Hungarian short film, color, 15 minutes, video
The film is set in the Middle Ages, but this shouldn’t be taken too seriously. There is a country ruled by an Emperor who is a bit nutty. This is nothing surprising, because nearly everyone is actually a little cookie.
The film is set in the Middle Ages, but this shouldn’t be taken too seriously. There is a country ruled by an Emperor who is a bit nutty. This is nothing surprising, because nearly everyone is actually a little cookie.An important figure in the King’s court is the Cupbearer, whose house is the story’s main setting. The Cupbearer – an ordinary little man – is the protagonist in this crazy world where ever more unbelievable events take place. There are also his two sons, Estván and Péter, and his daughter, Cifka, the little slut who desperately wants to get rid off her virginity as early as possible. Other significant roles in the film are Kata, the bigmouthed wife of the Cupbearer, Big Lothár, the Executioner, Kozár, the assassin and, of course, Anasztázia, the mother-in-law.
Director: Péter Tímár
Writer: András Szekér (“The Cupbearer’s House”)
Screenplay: András Szekér
D.O.P.: Sándor Csukás
Editor: Péter Tímár
Music: Gábor Závodi, Pierrot
Sound: Tamás Márkus
Art Director: Zsuzsa Borvendég
Costume Designer: Beatrix Pető
Still Photo: Miklós Gáspár
Production Manager: Károly Rozsnyay
Co-producers: RTL KLUB, MAFILM
Producer: Pál Sándor
Cast: János Gálvölgyi, Judit Hernádi, Imre Bajor, Dezső Garas, Iván Kamarás and Zolee Ganxta
2004, Hungarian feature film, color, 90 minutes, 35 mm
Awards:
- Hungarian Feature Film Festival – 2005: Award of the Audience 3rd Prize
   
The story itself is quite simple, it is the characters that are important. There is a woman whom love has worn down, a boy who is in love with her - but this feeling is so overwhelmingly strong that he is ready to change his whole personality for the fulfillment of such love. The boy has a very close friend who has to decide whether he is gay or if he just likes his friend too much.
The story itself is quite simple, it is the characters that are important. There is a woman whom love has worn down, a boy who is in love with her - but this feeling is so overwhelmingly strong that he is ready to change his whole personality for the fulfillment of such love. The boy has a very close friend who has to decide whether he is gay or if he just likes his friend too much.Until the woman appears, there has been a close friendship between the two men, and this becomes the source of complications. Is it possible to maintain the friendship in this triangle-like relationship? Will love have a chance to develop and tolerate this friendship, and how do others around them react to the whole story...?
Writer-Director: Szabolcs Hajdú
D.O.P.: Mátyás Erdélyi
Editor: Réka Lemhényi
Music: Sándor Tiba
Sound: TamásZányi
Costume Designer: Monica Estan
Still Photo: Lenke Szilágyi
Production Manager: Gábor Sarudi
Producer: Sándor Simó, György Budai
Cast: László Katona, Illés Nyitrai, József Vásári, Orsolya Török-Illyés, Szabó Domokos
2001, Hungarian feature film, color, 100 minutes, 35 mm
Awards:
- 2001 – Hungarian Feature Film Festival: Award to Best First Film Director, Szabolcs Hajdú
- 2002 - Hungarian Fim Critics’ Prize for Best First Film, Golden Scissors Award to Best Editor, Réka Lemhényi
April 27, 1989 – Petya’s eighteenth birthday. Moscow Square’s big clock signals 8.30 p.m. and youngsters are standing around under the clock waiting to find out the addresses of parties. In Kigler’s hand, a bottle of Russian champaigne pops, Petya takes a sip and the bubbles fizz up his nose, Royal jeers at him viciously… Csömör has got hold of the addresses, the party night can start. They go up to the top of Szabadsag Hill, then over to the Castle, they go from party to party across the city. At dawn, the kids return to Moscow Square to eat hamburgers, then buzz off home.
April 27, 1989 – Petya’s eighteenth birthday. Moscow Square’s big clock signals 8.30 p.m. and youngsters are standing around under the clock waiting to find out the addresses of parties. In Kigler’s hand, a bottle of Russian champaigne pops, Petya takes a sip and the bubbles fizz up his nose, Royal jeers at him viciously… Csömör has got hold of the addresses, the party night can start. They go up to the top of Szabadsag Hill, then over to the Castle, they go from party to party across the city. At dawn, the kids return to Moscow Square to eat hamburgers, then buzz off home.There is great confusion at high school. ”Considering the political situation”, all history exam topics covering the period after 1945 are skipped just a week before graduation. Not to speak of Kigler, who is a jerk, yet the powers that be let him pass the maths exam. They are off home to watch some porn. The guys steal a shabby Porsche from Kiglers’ second hand cars to show off to the chicks.
At night, Royal offers the boys the chance of a good deal - forging international train tickets. "Travelling, loads of money, and whatever you want!" Petya is up for it… They welcome May 1st with a nighttime swim at the Gellért Baths, and, as dawn breaks, they have breakfast right on Szabadság Bridge, sitting on garden chairs they have stolen from the Gellért Hotel.
It turns out already at the graduation ceremony, that Royal’s dad has somehow gotten hold of the questions in their written graduation exam. At first everybody is doubtful…
Director: Ferenc Török
Screenplay: Ferenc Török
D.O.P.: Dániel Garas
Editor: Béla Barsi
Music: Balázs Temesvári
Sound: Tamás Zányi
Art Director: Gábor Valcz
Costume Designer: Gitta Rajnai
Still Photo: Ábel Szalontai
Production Manager: Gábor Fülöp
Producer: Sándor Simó
Cast: Gábor Karalyos, Erzsi Pápai, Eszter Balla, Ilona Béres, Vilmos Csatlós, András Réthelyi, Simon Szabó, Bence Jávor, Zsolt Kovács, Imre Csuja
2001, Hungarian feature film, color, 88 minutes, 35 mm
Awards:
- 2001 – Hungarian Feature Film Festival: The Best First Film Award
Juli and András get acquainted on a Budapest street in a lonely and bitter moment of their lives. A time when both badly need someone. András, a brilliant computer programmer, has been a drug addict for years. After several failing attempt to become clean, he decides to commit suicide at the beginning of the story. Juli is an actress just starting out, who has been struggling in a hopeless relationship.
Juli and András get acquainted on a Budapest street in a lonely and bitter moment of their lives. A time when both badly need someone. András, a brilliant computer programmer, has been a drug addict for years. After several failing attempt to become clean, he decides to commit suicide at the beginning of the story. Juli is an actress just starting out, who has been struggling in a hopeless relationship.In the weeks to come, they go through many torments in life; physical and mental torture and the hell of humiliation and fear. Locked in András’ apartment, the only dim light of hope is shed by their flourishing relationship. In the monotonously passing days of isolation, András suffers from sometimes unbearable withdrawal symptoms. Juli is really concerned and desolate, but she tries to help him, even if sometimes clumsily, with tender care. With András’ hopes of recovery, new plans begin to appear in their lives. Together they decide to make an old dream of András come true: they travel to India.
Director: Gábor Dettre
Screenplay: Gábor Dettre
D.O.P.: Ferenc Pap
Editor: Gabriella Koncz
Sound: György Kovács
Costume Designer: Gyula Zámbó
Still Photo: Gábor Komáromi
Production Manager: Tibor Orosz
Line Producer: Andrea Kormos
Producer: Jenő Hábermann, Sándor Simó
Produced by: FilmArt, Hunnia Film Studio
Cast: Zoltán Ternyák, Lajos Kovács, Ildikó Tóth, Ferenc Borbiczky, Anikó Sáfár, Miklós Székely B., Lili Monori, Erzsi Pápai, Juli Nyakó, Jenő Kiss, Sándor Badár
2001, Hungarian feature film, color szín, 100 minutes, 35mm
Awards:
- 2003 – The Hungarian Film and Television Critics’ Prize for Best Actor, Zoltán Ternyák, Prize for Best Actress, Ildikó Tóth
 
This is an adventure film. One could say an ideological adventure, but with “real” adventures, revolutions and wars spanning countries and continents. A great journey – a race for belief and identity. Our hero is half Hungarian, half Spaniard; half catholic and half Jewish; born in Latin America and brought up as a convinced communist.
This is an adventure film. One could say an ideological adventure, but with “real” adventures, revolutions and wars spanning countries and continents. A great journey – a race for belief and identity. Our hero is half Hungarian, half Spaniard; half catholic and half Jewish; born in Latin America and brought up as a convinced communist.His family drags him across the world, from Che Guevara’s and Salvador Allende’s failed revolutions, into the "existing socialism" of Hungary. The result: a revolutionary without the constraints of borders. What will become of him in this new world, a world wanting nothing to do with ideologies any more? What will become of those whom history has already deceived? What will become of the forever restless, the angry and the radicals? Our hero races anew across the world, and finds himself in the war of Croacia.
Director: Ibolya Fekete
Screenplay: Ibolya Fekete
D.O.P.: Nyika Jancsó, Mátyás Erdély, Antonio Farias
Editor: Anna Kornis H.S.E.
Sound: Róbert Juhász
Art Director: Mladen Ožbolt
Costume Designer: Snježana Škrinjaric
Still Photo: Gábor Dettre
Line Producer: Andrea Kormos
Executive Producer: Gábor Dettre
Producers: Sándor Simó, Hans Kutnewsky, Damir Terešak, J.J. Harting
Produced by: Hunnia Film Studio, ZDF-ARTE, Maxima Film - HTV (Zagreb), Roos Film (Santiago)
Cast: Eduardo Rózsa Flores, Sergio Hernández, Richie Varga, Gyula Bodrogi
2001, Hungarian feature film, color, 108 minutes, 35 mm
Awards:
- Karlovy Vary – 2001: Prize for Best Director, Ibolya Fekete, The Oecumenic Jury’s Award
- Berlin – 2001: John Templeton European Film Award
- Hungarian Feature Film Festival – 2002: First Prize, Golden Scissors Award to Best Editor, Anna Kornis
- Lagów – 2002: First Prize
- Istambul, Cinema and History – 2002: First Prize, Filmcritics’ Prize
- Budapest – 2003: Hungarian Film and Television Critics’ Prize: Award to Best Director, Ibolya Fekete
  
In 1933, Kornél Esti, the renowned writer sets out by train on a reading tour in Germany. Sensing sinister signs, he recollects his first journey to the sea in 1903.
In 1933, Kornél Esti, the renowned writer sets out by train on a reading tour in Germany. Sensing sinister signs, he recollects his first journey to the sea in 1903.The memories of his present and the 1903 journey make it ever more obvious to Kornél Esti that he has irretrievably missed out on something. He doubts whether poetry has made him happy at all, but it already seems irrelevant. While the young writer unifies with the sea, the old Esti dies.
Director: József Pacskovszky
Writer: Dezső Kosztolányi (Kornél Esti, cyclic short story)
Screenplay: János Matuz, József Pacskovszky
D.O.P.: Francisco Gózon
Editor: Éva Szentandrási
Music: Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, Fryderyk Chopin, Joseph Lanner, Máté Victor
Sound: János Réti
Art Director: József Romvári
Costume Designer: Jánoskuti Márta
Still Photo: Szaladják István
Production Manager: Andrea Kormos
Head of Studio: Sándor Simó
Cast: Gábor Máté, Mátyás Erdély, Éva Igó, Gabriella Németh, Gyula Benkő, Kathleen Gati, Zsolt László, Tamás Dunai, József Szarvas, Erika Marozsán, Edit Kormos, Vera Pap, Hajnal Dancsházi, Anna Révész, Anna Györgyi, Teréz Rudolf, Annamária Prókai, József Kerekes, Antal Cserna
1995, Hungarian feature film, color, 99 minutes, 35 mm
Awards:
- 1995 – Perugia: Opera Nouva – Gold Medal
- Hungarian Feature Film Festival: Award to Cinematographer, Francisco Gózon, Award to Best Episode Actress, Éva Igó
- 1996 – Istambul: a CICAE Award
- 1996 – Hungarian Film Critics’ Prize for the Best First Film, Award to Best Actor, Gábor Máté
   
In a meeting, Gizella Weisz’s boss tells her that due to her good performance and a study tour in France, she has been awarded a position in the Outpost. She has to leave immediately with her escort. They travel by jeep, train and bus, then continue on foot on mountain paths. On their way, Gizi finds herself deprived of all trappings of civilization.
In a meeting, Gizella Weisz’s boss tells her that due to her good performance and a study tour in France, she has been awarded a position in the Outpost. She has to leave immediately with her escort. They travel by jeep, train and bus, then continue on foot on mountain paths. On their way, Gizi finds herself deprived of all trappings of civilization.Arriving at Öcsi’s (Petya’s?) in a wooden alpine house, she realizes that she has actually been banished. She accepts both the situation and the regulations with dignity. Her internal radiance does not fade: creation is her destiny in this world.
Director: Péter Gothár
Writer: Ádám Bodor (The Outpost, short story)
Screenplay: Ádám Bodor, Péter Gothár
Dramaturg: Zsuzsa Bíró, László Czető Bernáth
D.O.P.: Vivi Drägan Vaszile
Editor: Tímár Péter, Majoros Eszter
Music: György Selmeczi, György Orbán
Sound: János Réti
Art Direcotr: Zsolt Khell, Christian Niculescu
Costume Designer: Breckl János
Still Photo: Károly Fehér
Production Manager: Károly Fehér, Irina Chiriya
Produkction Supervisor: András Ozorai
Head of Studio: Sándor Simó, Sándor Szőnyi G.
Producer: Hunnia Film Studio; Drama Studio of the Hungarian Television
Cast: Mari Nagy, József Szarvas, Valentin Teodosiu, Misu Dimvale, Andrei Finti, Géza Tóth, Alexandru Bindea, Stefan Sileanu, Marcu Marcel, Gheorge Visu, Radu Nicoara, Monica Ghiuta, M. Bikoveanu, Sándor Karácsony, Ovidiu Ghinita, Marin Scarlat, Iván Dengyel, Mari Törőcsik /narrator/
1995, Hungarian feature film, color, 85 minutes, 35 mm
Awards:
- 1995 – Hungarian Feature Film Festival: First Prize, Award to Best Director, Péter Gothár, The Foreign Critics’ Gene Moskowitz Award
- Flamex Award to the Best Director, Péter Gothár
- Karlovy Vary: the Oecumenic Jury’s Award, FICC Award
- 1996 – Hungarian Film Critics’ Award: First Prize, Award to Cinematographer, Vivi Dragan Vasile, Award to Best Actress, Mari Nagy, Award to Best Episode Actor, József Szarvas
   
Tordai, the actor, is always there at the horse-races, and he loses again this time. Suddenly, he recollects his teenage memories of the sixties, when he won an awful lot of money with his uncle Gyuszi. It was his uncle, an itinerant clothes-hanger seller who first took him along to the horse-races, and they traveled together from market to market in the country-side.
Tordai, the actor, is always there at the horse-races, and he loses again this time. Suddenly, he recollects his teenage memories of the sixties, when he won an awful lot of money with his uncle Gyuszi. It was his uncle, an itinerant clothes-hanger seller who first took him along to the horse-races, and they traveled together from market to market in the country-side.Uncle Gyuszi’s life revolved around horse-racing, women and unlimited freedom. In the course of a few adventurous and crazy days, he introduces his nephew to this world. Uncle Gyuszi does not survive winning a fortune in the last race, but someone being so intensely present in the memories of his environment, “never dies”.
Director: Róbert Koltai
Screenplay: Gábor Nógrádi, Róbert Koltai
Dramaturg: Sándor Fábry
D.O.P.: Gábor Halász
Editor: Marianna Miklós
Music: Lászó Dés
Singing: Gábor Presser
Sound: Kovács György
Production Designer: Gyula Pauer
Still Photo: István Bartós
Production Manager: Péter Rutkai
Head of Studio: Sándor Simó
Cast: Róbert Koltai, Mihály Szabados, Gábor Máté, Kathleen Gati, Tamás Jordán, László Csákányi, Margit Lontay, György Hunyadkürti, Péter Blaskó, Judit Pogány, László Vajda, Kati Lázár, Andor Lukáts, Lili Monori, Ági Szirtes, Tünde Murányi, Frigyes Hollósi, Piroska Molnár, Gellért Raksányi
1993, Hungarian feature film, color, 95 minutes, 35 mm
Awards:
- 1993 – Hungarian Feature Film Festival: Special Award of Pesti Műsor (What’s On in Budapest) for the Film Expecting the Biggest Success Among Audiences
- 1994 – Hungarian Film Critics’ Prize for Best Film Music, Special Award for the Filmmakers gaining back audiences
   
1945 – The Market at Teleki Square. Monori, the bigshot of the market, re-opens his business. His motto is: the one who has gold has everything. And he does have gold. His daughter, Marika, returns from Vienna and gives birth to a baby boy. For a handful of jewelry, Monori pays off his son-in-law to disappeare, and, with his wife, he takes care of his grandson.
1945 – The Market at Teleki Square. Monori, the bigshot of the market, re-opens his business. His motto is: the one who has gold has everything. And he does have gold. His daughter, Marika, returns from Vienna and gives birth to a baby boy. For a handful of jewelry, Monori pays off his son-in-law to disappeare, and, with his wife, he takes care of his grandson.1950 – the market is stagnating, Monori is selling sunflower seeds and waiting for things to change for the better. His grandson, Imi, catches diphtheria, Monori is able to save his life with a gold bar. Marika marries again and gets her son back by blackmail. 1956 – Monori would like his daughter’s family to escape abroad with the gold. All of a sudden, he gets an attack of appendicitis. He gives Imi a gold bar to find a doctor. Imi is incapable of realizing the value of gold and Monori dies.
Director: Géza Bereményi
Screenplay: Géza Bereményi
D.O.P.: Kardos Sándor
Editor: Teri Losonczi
Music: Ferenc Darvas
Sound: István Sipos
Art Director: Gyula Pauer
Costume Designer: Gyula Pauer
Still Photo: Gábor Hegyi
Production Manager: András Ozorai
Head of Studio: Sándor Simó
Cast: Károly Eperjes, Judit Pogány, Enikő Eszenyi, Péter Andorai, Géza Balkay, Barnabás Tóth and András Papcsik - Béla Petrik, Gyula Pauer, Henrik Pauer, Péter Haumann, Gábor Ferenczi, Péter Gothár, Györgyi Lang, Mariann Falusi, Eszter Nagy-Kálózy, Kata Kristóf, Péter Forgács, Miklós Székely B., Lili Monori, Ágnes Kamondi
1989, Hungarian feature film, color, 104 minutes, 35 mm
Awards:
- 1989 - Hugarian Feature Film Festival: The Public and the Professional Jury’s First Prize, Prize for Best Actor, Károly Eperjes, the Professional Jury’s Award for Best Screenplay
- Paris: Felix Award, The Director of the Year Géza Bereményi, Nomination for the European Film of the Year, Nomination in the categories, Actor, Cinematographer, Composer and Screenplay Writer of the Year
- 1990 - Hungarian Film Critics’ Prize for the Best Screenplay, for Best Actor, Károly Eperjes
   
Budapest, 1919. A special unit of right-wing extremists kills a wealthy Jewish jeweler for a cache of diamonds. His wife, Mitzi, a singer and her young son escape with the help of Rozsnyai, a musician. They flee to Italy. Traveling around the country, they sing and dance.
Budapest, 1919. A special unit of right-wing extremists kills a wealthy Jewish jeweler for a cache of diamonds. His wife, Mitzi, a singer and her young son escape with the help of Rozsnyai, a musician. They flee to Italy. Traveling around the country, they sing and dance.The diamonds, hidden by the jeweler in his son’s teddy bear before his death, unexpectedly turn up. Mitzi, her son and Rozsnyai return to Budapest some time later and open up a fancy club with the proceeds from the diamonds. Club Arizona and its star, Mitzi, gain world fame. The Second World War breaks out. Mitzi’s son commits suicide and the Nazis deport Rozsnyai. Now it is Mitzi’s turn to save Rozsnyai’s life, but it is too late. 1944 – the world of Rozsnyai and Mitzi is already buried under the smoking debris of the Arizona.
Director: Pál Sándor
Writer: Ágnes Fedor
Screenplay: Pál Sándor, Alfredo Gianetti, Péter Molnár Gál
Dramaturg: Zsuzsa Bíró
D.O.P.: Elemér Ragályi, Gábor Szabó
Editor: Nino Baragli
Music: Armando Trovaioli
Sound: Kovács György
Art Director: László Rajk, Gábor Bachmann, Luigi Quintili
Costume Designer: Nicoletta Ercole
Still Photo: István Bartók
Production Manager: Péter Ivanov, Orazio Tassara
Producer: Jacopo Cappana, Giuseppe Perugia
Head of Studio: Miklós Köllő
Cast: Hanna Schygulla - Mária Varga, Vocal: Kati Kovács, Marcello Mastroiani – Gyula Szabó, Juli Básti, Gábor Reviczky, Dezső Garas, Károly Eperjes, Alessandra Martinez – Anna Fehér, Berta Dominguez – Hédi Temessy, Augusto Poderosi – Pál Mácsai, Frigyes Hollósi, János Kulka, Ferenc Darvas, István Holl, András Fekete, Kati Rák
1988, Hungarian feature film, color, 114 minutes, 35 mm
   
In the last week of October 1956, Tomi and Annamari are happy not to have to go to school. Their dad too, comes home earlier from work, and tells them excitedly that he has slapped a colleague of his in the face. Grandma manages to get a loaf of bread, which gets hit by two bullets on the way home, but at least they have something to eat. Except for their ever leftist grandma, the family is at a loss about the revolution. In coded messages on the phone, they brief their relatives in the U.S. of the events.
In the last week of October 1956, Tomi and Annamari are happy not to have to go to school. Their dad too, comes home earlier from work, and tells them excitedly that he has slapped a colleague of his in the face. Grandma manages to get a loaf of bread, which gets hit by two bullets on the way home, but at least they have something to eat. Except for their ever leftist grandma, the family is at a loss about the revolution. In coded messages on the phone, they brief their relatives in the U.S. of the events.Mum is about to defect with a guy called Ákos. She sets out, but returns. Annamari might have whooping cough. The revolution is defeated, and school restarts in mid-November. There are kids in Annamari’s grade who will probably never come back to school again. Director Péter Gárdos briefly comments on the film, which “…evokes the horrifying punch we got in our faces at the turn of October-November 1956.” “In his film we follow the events of the revolution from the viewpoint of a fifteen-year-old boy in the isolated, slipper-pyjama world of home sweet home.” (Eszter Farkas)
Director: Péter Gárdos
Screenplay: András Osváth, Péter Gárdos
Dramaturg: Zsuzsa Bíró
D.O.P.: Tibor Máthé
Editor: Mária Rigó
Music: János Novák
Sound: János Réti, István Sipos
Art Director: József Romvári
Costume Designer: Ágnes Gyarmathy
Still Photo: Gábor Hegyi
Production Manager: András Elek
Head of Studio: Miklós Köllő
Cast: Dezső Garas, Judit Hernádi, Mari Törőcsik, Károly Eperjes, Eszter Kárász, Marcell Tóth, Anna Fehér, Dénes Újlaki, Zoltán Gera, Gábor Reviczky, Tamás Végvári, Péter Rudolf, Kati Gárdos
1987, Hungarian feature film, color, 91 minutes, 35 mm
Awards:
- 1987 – Hugarian Feature Film Festival: The Public and the Professional Jury’s Prize for Best Actor, Dezső Garas
- Montreal: FIPRESCI-Award
- Frankfurt/a.M. (Children Film Festival): Award for the Best Film
- Chicago: Golden Hugo Award
- 1988 – Troia: Award for Best Director, Péter Gárdos
- Bludenz: Golden Unicorn
- Vevey: The Golden Pierrot Award to the Best Film, Golden Cane Award to Dezső Garas, Mari Törőcsik, Judit Hernádi, Eszter Kárász and Marcell Tóth
   
December 1956. Sixteen-year-old Daniel is heading to the border to follow his sweetheart who is about to leave for America. His companion, Gyuri Angeli is seeking to escape because of his participation in the fighting during the uprising.
December 1956. Sixteen-year-old Daniel is heading to the border to follow his sweetheart who is about to leave for America. His companion, Gyuri Angeli is seeking to escape because of his participation in the fighting during the uprising.At night, all the people who want to flee the country are in a hotel next to the border waiting for trucks. This is where Gyuri Angeli’s father works, and who, despite the torture he suffered in Rákosi’s prison, collaborates against the deserters with a state security officer. After a seemingly endless night, the trucks leave for the border. Daniel does not defect, but takes the train back to Budapest. Gyuri Angeli follows him, and is killed when he jumps off the train bound for Budapest.
Director: Pál Sándor
Writer: András Mezei (short story)
Screenplay: Zsuzsa Tóth
Dramaturg: Zsuzsa Bíró
D.O.P.: Elemér Ragályi
Editor: Éva Kármentő
Music: György Selmeczi
Sound: György Kovács
Art Director: Attila Kovács
Costume Designer: Györgyi Szakács
Still Photo: István Bartók
Production Manager: György Onódi
Head of Studio: Köllő Miklós
Cast: Péter Rudolf, Ági Margitai, Tamás Major, Sándor Zsótér, Gyula Bodrogi, Mari Törőcsik, Dezső Garas, Kati Szerb, András Kern, Katalin Takács, István Fazekas, Ildikó Kishonti, Ági Voith, Margit Földessy, Tamás Végvári, Sándor Halmágyi, Kati Egri, Hédi Temessy, Zoltán Nagy, Péter Kertész, Oszkár Gáti, Sándor Téry, Teri Földi, Irma Patkós, Dénes Újlaki
1983, Hungarian feature film, color, 95 minutes, 35 mm
Awards:
- 1983 – Hungarian Feature Film Festival: First Prize of the Public Jury, Best Actor Award to Tamás Végvári, the Professional Jury’s Special Prize for Best Actor, Gyula Bodrogi and Best Actress, Mari Törőcsik, Prize for Costume Designer, Györgyi Szakács
- Cannes: FIPRESCI-Award
- 1984 – The Hungarian Film Critics’ Prize for Best Actor, Gyula Bodrogi
- 1985 – Zimbabwe: Award for the Festival’s Most Inventive Film
- 1986 – Gdansk: The Best Foreign Film Award
   
Salomon and Stock have performed their double act in the cabaret for years. In a pair of three-legged-trousers they sing the song “You Won’t Make It Alone”. One day Salomon unexpectedly replaces Stock with a young girl dancer.
Salomon and Stock have performed their double act in the cabaret for years. In a pair of three-legged-trousers they sing the song “You Won’t Make It Alone”. One day Salomon unexpectedly replaces Stock with a young girl dancer.Stock decides to kill Salomon, and starts to chase him. Salomon is in full flight, and whenever Stock catches up with him, he stabs at his partner, but always misses. After a while, the tables are turned, and Salomon is now the one running after Stock. Because of the opportunity to star in a television show, the two comedians finally cool down, they slip back into their three-legged-trousers, and sing together anew “You Won’t Make It Alone”.
Director: Pál Sándor
Idea: Zsuzsa Tóth, Pál Sándor
Screenplay: Zsuzsa Tóth
Dramaturg: Zsuzsa Bíró
D.O.P.: Elemér Ragályi
Editor: Éva Kármentő
Music: Gábor Presser
Sound: György Kovács
Art Director: Gábor Bachmann
Costume Designer: Emőke Csengey
Still Photo: András Zarándok
Production Manager: Anrás Ozorai
Head of Studio: Köllő Miklós
Cast: Dezső Garas, András Kern, Dorottya Udvaros, Tamás Major, Ildikó Pécsi, Hédi Temessy, Ági Margitai, György Bárdy, István Bujtor, József Máriáss, Melinda Máriáss, István Gőz, Gábor Máté, Irma Patkós
1981, Hungarian feature film, color, 94 minutes, 35 mm
Awards:
- 1981 – Hungarian Feature Film Festival: Award for Cinematographer, Elemér Ragályi
- 1982 – The Hungarian Film Critics’ Prize for Camera Work
   
The film is a romantic vision of love, of the reckless search for one’s identity and for new experiences – a vision of unfulfilled passion, of desire and human integrity. The story of Psyche, Erzsébet Lónyay and Narcissus, László Ungvárnémeti Tóth, drifts over the historic period of hundred years between 1813 and 1914, during which the protagonists do not grow a second older. In the battle between history and the soul, a tortured, loving and destructive third character, Baron Zedlitz, appears.
The film is a romantic vision of love, of the reckless search for one’s identity and for new experiences – a vision of unfulfilled passion, of desire and human integrity. The story of Psyche, Erzsébet Lónyay and Narcissus, László Ungvárnémeti Tóth, drifts over the historic period of hundred years between 1813 and 1914, during which the protagonists do not grow a second older. In the battle between history and the soul, a tortured, loving and destructive third character, Baron Zedlitz, appears.Coupled with individual dramaturgy and experimental methods, the film tells the story of past times, of the psyche and love placing the mytologic topic into a strange visual world. “The astonishing effects, the rich, baroque, visual world of Psyche represent even today a unique experiment in Hungarian film making. Some critics compare the Hungarian director’s work to that of Peter Greenaway: the adventures in philosophy and art history clad into a visual orgy are in fact features which the two filmmakers have in common.” (Viktor Kubyszin)
Director: Gábor Bódy
Writer: Sándor Weöres (Psyché, narrative poem)
Screenplay: Gábor Bódy, Vilmos Csaplár
Dramaturg: Vera Varga
D.O.P.: István Hildebrand
Editor: Gábor Bódy
Music: László Vidovszky
Sound: István Sipos
Art Director: Gábor Bachmann
Costume Designer: Erzsébet Mialkovszky, Gizella Koppány
Still Photo: Gyula Szóvári
Production Manager: István Fogarasi
Head of Studio: Miklós Köllő
Cast: Patricia Adriani – Erzsébet Kútvölgyi, Udo Kier – György Cserhalmi – Dezső Garas, Ágnes Horváth, Éva Tóth, Dénes Újlaki, János Derzsi, Ingrid Caven, Zoltán Gera, Gáspár Ferdinándy, Nicole Coren, Gyula Hornyánszky, Ferenc Jánossy, Gábor Karig, András Péter, Miklós Erdély, Károly Újlaki, Hunor Bucz, Sándor Erdélyi, Mihály Hoppál, János Pilinszky
1980, Hungarian feature film, color, 217 minutes, 35 mm
Original television version: 305 minutes
Awards:
- 1981 – Hungarian Feature Film Festival: Special Prize for Director, Gábor Bódy
- Locarno: Bronze Leopard
- Figuera da Foz: Prize of the CIDALC Jury
   
László Sz. is a twenty-year-old truck guard. One day he changes his mind and, for the first time in his life, he does not post the money officially entrusted to him. He fails to show up for work, generally hangs around and squanders the money, spending it on things he otherwise wouldn’t be able to afford from his salary.
László Sz. is a twenty-year-old truck guard. One day he changes his mind and, for the first time in his life, he does not post the money officially entrusted to him. He fails to show up for work, generally hangs around and squanders the money, spending it on things he otherwise wouldn’t be able to afford from his salary.He takes cabs, dines in restaurants, eats lots of sweets, goes to Lake Balaton, womanizes, and buys everything he feels like. By the end of the day, he has poured all the money down the drain. He has had an active day, but nothing has happened of any great significance. László Sz. has had nothing to do with anyone and anything. He walks into a police station and gives himself up.
Director: András Jeles
Screenplay: András Jeles
Dramaturg: Zsuzsa Tóth
D.O.P.: Sándor Kardos
Editor: Margit Galamb
Music: Kamilló Lendvay
Sound: János Réti
Art Director: András Gyürki
Still Photo: Tamás Kende
Production Manager: Tibor Dimény
Head of Studio: Miklós Köllő
Cast: János Opoczki, József Farkas, Dénes Ladányi
1979, Hungarian feature film, black and white, 102 minutes, 35 mm
Awards:
- 1980 – Hungarian Film Critics’ Prize for Best First Film Director, András Jeles
   
Through the revival and adventurous journey of an old street car wreck, the allegoric pictures of thirty years of post-war Budapest history are revealed. A few people lingering on the Danube river bank find the wreck of an overturned street car.
Through the revival and adventurous journey of an old street car wreck, the allegoric pictures of thirty years of post-war Budapest history are revealed. A few people lingering on the Danube river bank find the wreck of an overturned street car.With great effort, they manage to put it back on its tracks and spruce it up, but it hasn’t got an electricity supply. This is why they start to push the street car towards the safety of the depot. Ever more people join the “procession” to participate in the common effort – old and young, good and wicked, enthusiastic and selfish, demagogues and democrats. They fight bloody and savage battles for the control of the street car during the journey, but the car keeps rolling on.
Director: István Szabó
Screenplay: István Szabó
Dramaturg: Luca Karall
D.O.P.: Sándor Sára
Editor: János Rózsa
Music: Zdenkó Tamássy
Sound: György Pintér
Art Director: József Romvári
Costume Designer: Fanny Kemenes
Still Photo: Emma Réger
Production Manager: Lajos Óvári, András Ozorai
Head of Studio: Miklós Köllő
Cast: András Bálint, Ági Mészáros, Franciszek Pieczka, Károly Kovács, Gábor Mádi Szabó, Szymon Szurmiej, Zoltán Gera, Rita Békés, József Madarass, Ildikó Bánsági, Maja Komorowska, Zoltán Huszárik, Vilmos Kún
1977, Hungarian feature film, color, 89 minutes, 35 mm
   
Like a fairy tale: A boy recollects his memories of his father, his family, and of “those happy years” following the Second World War. After the siege, people are able to come out of the cellars. Török, the pharmacist, happily plays the Symphony in G-minor with the factory orchestra.
Like a fairy tale: A boy recollects his memories of his father, his family, and of “those happy years” following the Second World War. After the siege, people are able to come out of the cellars. Török, the pharmacist, happily plays the Symphony in G-minor with the factory orchestra.He miraculously recovers from diptheria, and amazingly, he even takes control of a small chemical factory. He makes his big dream come true: he extracts a woman’s hormonal treatment from horse urine. But the era of nationalization looms, and the factory is taken into public ownership. Török is sent to a detention camp. In the camp, and even later, Török continues working on his plans with undiminished faith.
Director: Sándor Simó
Writer: Sándor Simó (Macskakövek, film short story)
Screenplay: Sándor Simó
Dramaturg: Zsuzsa Bíró
D.O.P.: Tamás Andor
Editor: Éva Kármentő
Music: Zdenkó Tamássy, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Iszaak Dunajevszkij
Sound: Károly Peller
Art Director: József Romvári
Costume Designer: Fanny Kemenes
Consultant: Pál Sádor
Still Photo: Magda B. Müller
Production Manager: József Bajusz
Head of Studio: Miklós Köllő
Cast: Loránd Lohinszky, Eszter Szakács, Péter Harsányi, István Bujtor, Judit Meszléry, József Madaras, Györgyi Tarján, Dezső Garas, Irma Patkós, Péter Andorai, Nóra Káldi, Tibor Szilágyi, Kati Lázár, Mária Dudás, Endre Holman, Péter Müller, János Csányi
1977, Hungarian feature film, color, 95 minutes, 35 mm
Awards:
- 1978 – Hungarian Film Critics’ Prize for Best Episode Actress, Györgyi Tarján
- Berlin: FIPRESCI Award, OCIC Award
   
The elderly and lonely Ivicz, once an excellent baker, now reduced to delivering bread, is a referee of third league soccer games in the countryside at the weekends. He is the rigid and incorruptible boss on the pitch.
The elderly and lonely Ivicz, once an excellent baker, now reduced to delivering bread, is a referee of third league soccer games in the countryside at the weekends. He is the rigid and incorruptible boss on the pitch.Ivicz’s linesmen are the busybody, Fedák, and the womanizer, Gadácsi. All three are waiting in hope for the newspapers to write about them one day – maybe even in the National Sports paper itself. The one hope of the sad, small-town confectioner is that Ivicz might fall in love with her. Yet the rigid referee fails to even notice his last chance for happiness. “There are not many films which present with such simplicity and intensity the fate of ordinary people in the mid-Seventies, their tragic mediocrity, comic greatness and their strong desire to break out of the total ruthlessness, while also coping with the social and historic aspects of the times...” (Gábor Gelencsér)
Director: Péter Szász
Screenplay: Péter Szász
Dramaturg: Zsuzsa Bíró
D.O.P.: Koltai Lajos
Editor: Annamária Komlóssy
Music: György Vukán, Gábor Presser, LGT
Sound: György Kovács
Art Director: Antal Neogrády
Costume Designer: Fanny Kemenes
Still Photo: Pálma Morvay
Production Manager: György Onódi
Head of Studio: Köllő Miklós
Cast: Ferenc Kállay, Gyula Bodrogi, Tamás Andor, Péter Haumann, Judit Meszléry, Nóra Tábori, Róbert Koltai, László Baranyi, Györgyi Tarján, Teri Balogh, Márta Varga, Győző Hadai Harrer
1976, Hungarian feature film, color, 103 min., 35 mm
Awards:
- 1977 – Teheran: Best Actor Award to Ferenc Kállay
   
1919 – after the defeat of the Hungarian Soviet Republic, in a sanatorium somewhere in the mountains. Disguised as a woman, János Kövesi, a wanted communist, seeks escape in the Sanatorium Wallach, where he applies for the job of nurse.
1919 – after the defeat of the Hungarian Soviet Republic, in a sanatorium somewhere in the mountains. Disguised as a woman, János Kövesi, a wanted communist, seeks escape in the Sanatorium Wallach, where he applies for the job of nurse.Under the alias of Sarolta Galambos, he waits for a suitable moment to flee across the border, with the assistance of Nurse Zsófi. A special unit of right-wing extremists murders her. This is why Kövesi, still in hiding, will have to also take another persecuted communist, whom Nurse Zsófi was waiting for, through the border. While waiting, Kövesi takes care of the patients of the Hungarian Magic Mountain. In his disguise as a woman he falls in love with an Italian woman, and in order to protect his female identity, he also has to kill. Later, just before they are about escape, his persecutors murder him and his comrade in their sleep.
Director: Pál Sándor
Writer: Pál Sándor, Zsuzsa Tóth
Screenplay: Zsuzsa Tóth
Dramaturg: Zsuzsa Bíró
D.O.P.: Elemér Ragályi
Editor: Éva Kármentő
Music: Zdenkó Tamássy
Sound: Károly Peller
Art Director: László Duba
Costume Designer: Fanny Kemenes
Still Photo: Magda B. Müller
Production Manager: István Fogarasi
Head of Studio: Köllő Miklós
Cast: Endre Holman, Sándor Szabó, Erzsébet Kútvölgyi, Dezső Garas, Carla Romanelli, Margit Dajka, Irma Patkós, Hédi Temessy, Györgyi Tarján, Ildikó Pécsi, Mária Lázár, Ági Margitai, András Kern, György Simon, Márk Zala
1976, Hungarian feature film, color, 82 minutes, 35 mm
Awards:
- 1977 – Hungarian Film Critics’ Prize for Cinematographer, Elemér Ragályi, Award for Best Episode Actress, Hédi Temessy
- Berlin: Silver Bear, CIDALC-Award
- 1978 – Sao Paulo: Second Prize
   
The film tells the story of three days at the climax of the career of Mrs. Déry, an aging actress. She looks into the mirror in the twilight of the theater hallway: she possesses the ultimate knowledge of her profession, but time has also caused her beauty to fade.
The film tells the story of three days at the climax of the career of Mrs. Déry, an aging actress. She looks into the mirror in the twilight of the theater hallway: she possesses the ultimate knowledge of her profession, but time has also caused her beauty to fade.Following the latest trend, the theater’s young star, Mrs. Schodel, acts by instinct. Mrs. Déry’s style starts to appear outdated. The elderly star returns to her husband after eighteen years’ separation. Yet, Déry’s conservative, mediocre way of life, the total passivity, and boring coziness of life at the mansion, further heighten Mrs. Déry’s endless loneliness. She deserts her home and returns to the theater. The old Jancsó is the only one to celebrate her glory in the hazy theater garden. “… Due to the genuine mutual creation of Gyula Maár, János Pilinszky, Mari Törőcsik and Lajos Koltai, Mrs. Déry, Where Are You? is an opalescent, smoothly silent, perfect film, and is one of the finest examples of Hungarian film history. The decades have left no trace on this work, its colors have faded not one little bit.” (Klára Muhi)
Director: Gyula Maár
Writer: János Pilinszky (based on The Diary of Mrs. Déry)
Screenplay: Gyula Maár
Story Editor: Zsuzsa Bíró
D.O.P.: Lajos Koltai
Editor: György Sivó
Music: Tamás Cseh, Fryderyk Chopin, Zoltán Simon
Sound: Károly Peller
Art Director: András Banovich
Costume Designer: Judit Schäffer
Still Photo: Pálma Morvay
Production Manager: József Bajusz
Head of Studio: Miklós Köllő
Cast: Mari Törőcsik, Ferenc Kállay, Sulyok Mária, Imre Ráday, Tamás Major, Esztergályos Cecília, Kornél Gelley, András Kozák, András Schiff, András Kern, Gábor Nagy, Zsuzsa Zolnay, Flóra Kádár, Vilmos Izsóf, László Aranyi, György Vígh
1975, Hungarian feature film, color, 98 min., 35 mm
Awards:
- 1976 – Hungarian Film Critics’ Prize for Cinematographer, Lajos Koltai, Best Actress Award to Mari Törőcsik
- Cannes: Best Actress Award to Mari Törőcsik
   
Three teenage boys find shelter from the rain in an empty house at Lake Balaton. Unexpectedly, the owners return, but only two of the boys are able two escape. Kiki gets stuck in the larder.
Three teenage boys find shelter from the rain in an empty house at Lake Balaton. Unexpectedly, the owners return, but only two of the boys are able two escape. Kiki gets stuck in the larder.There is a fierce storm outside, and while he is waiting for his chance to escape, pictures of his memory and stream of consciousness keep flashing in his mind: His first date, the first revolt against the strict authority of the adult world, the attempts to shock grown-ups, hitch hiking, great reunions and sad farewells: confrontation with the real life of adults. In the morning, Kiki’s friends return to pick him up, and the three indulge again in probably their last undisturbed vacation.
Director: Pál Sándor
Screenplay: Pál Sándor, Zsuzsa Tóth
Dramaturg: Zsuzsa Bíró
D.O.P.: János Zsombolyai
Editor: Éva Kármentő
Music: Zdenkó Tamássy
Sound: Károly Peller
Art Director: László Duba
Costume Designer: Vera Nádor
Still Photo: Egon Endrényi
Production Manager: József Bajusz
Head of Studio: János Herskó
Cast: Gábor Ferenczi, Balázs Tardy, Miklós Szurdi, Vera Venczel, Ildikó Szabó
1968, Hungarian feature film, black and white, 82 minutes, 35 mm
Awards:
- 1968 – Hungarian Feature Film Festival: The Jury’s Prize for Camera Work
- Chicago: Award for the Best Youth Film
- Karlovy Vary: Grand Prix of the Jury for the Screenplay, Certificate of the Technical Jury
- Pécs 4th Film Festival: Award for Cinematographer, János Zsombolyai
- 1969 – Hungarian Film Critics’ Award for Cinematographer, János Zsombolyai
- Phon Penh: Cerificate
   
In the last days of World War II, a Hungarian army corporal, Molnár, deserts along with his battalion’s pay hidden in grenades. He finds refuge in an old castle with other deserters, also hiding there. Albert, the “noble” butler of Baron Drexler takes care of them.
In the last days of World War II, a Hungarian army corporal, Molnár, deserts along with his battalion’s pay hidden in grenades. He finds refuge in an old castle with other deserters, also hiding there. Albert, the “noble” butler of Baron Drexler takes care of them.The deserters, now as heroic Hungarian soldiers, take over the guard of POW Szíjjártó. They set out to find some food, and on their way they save Grisha, a Soviet soldier, hiding in a forester’s house. They try to avoid both the Germans and the Soviets, but a troop of Hungarian fascists finally uncovers them. The pay, hidden in an oven, is burnt to ashes. Meanwhile, they get hold of the grenades, and when the Nazis are about to execute them, they fight back. Attempting escape, they fall into Soviet captivity, where they organize a partisan squad from their little group. Preoccupied only with saving his own life, Corporal Molnár walks out, and is replaced by Grisha in the squad. The partisans depart, the corporal taking the opposite direction, but changing his mind, he finally rejoins them. „The Russians are already in the larder..." – this legendary statement sounds familiar to all movie-freaks, and has made the film unforgetable.” (Sulinet)
Director: Márton Keleti
Screenplay: Imre Dobozy, Péter Szász
D.O.P: Pásztor István
Editor: Mihály Morell
Music: István Sárközi
Sound: Gábor Erdélyi
Art Director: László Duba
Costume Designer Designer: Piroska Katona
Production Manager: Lajos Óvári
Still Photo: András Szomszéd
Head of Studio: János Herskó
Cast: Imre Sinkovits, Tamás Major, Iván Darvas, György Pálos, László Márkus, László Kozák, Gyula Szabó, László Ungvári, Tivadar Horváth, János Makláry, Károly Kovács, József Kautzky, Zsigmond Fülöp, László Bánhidi, Sándor Szakács, Pálma Gyímesi, Gellért Raksányi, József Szendrő, József Fonyó, Gábor Agárdy, Éva Kelemen, Hilda Gobbi
1965, Hungarian feature film, black and white, 111 min., 35 mm
Awards:
- 1965 – Hungarian Feature Film Festival: First Prize of Public Jury, the Professional Jury’s Special Prize for Director, Márton Keleti, Best Actor Award to Imre Sinkovits
- 1966 – The Hungarian Film Critics’ Special Prize: Best Actor Award to Imre Sinkovits
- 1968 – „The Budapesti twelve”
   
The story is set in a little, 19th Century town in the South of France. Etienne Lantier and his workmates toil 12 hours a day for a pittance in Maheu’s group.
The story is set in a little, 19th Century town in the South of France. Etienne Lantier and his workmates toil 12 hours a day for a pittance in Maheu’s group.Fed up with enduring the harsh working conditions, he attempts to organize a strike, with the aim of improving wages and conditions. Etienne falls in love with Catherine, the daughter of a fellow miner, but her loyalty to her father and local traditions force her to marry the rude Chaval. When an anarchist floods the coalface, Etienne, Catherine and Chaval are trapped. Etienne is the only one to survive.
Director: Yves Allégret
Writer: Emile Zola (Germinal, novel)
Screenplay: Charles Spaak
D.O.P.: Jean Bourgoin, Barnabás Hegyi
Editor: Henri Rust
Music: Michael Magne
Sound: Robert Teisseire, Antoine Archaimbaud, Gábor Erdélyi
Art Director: Lucien Aguettand, Jaques Paris, Béla Zeichán
Costume Designer: Lomballe, Zsazsa Lázár, Jaques Cottin
Still Photo: Tibor Inkey
Production Manager: Lajos Óvári
Head of Studio: Eugene Tucherer, Ottó Föld
Production Company: Boulogne Seine – Hunnia Filmstúdió
Cast: Jean Sorel - Tibor Bitskey, Bethe Grandval - Myrtill Nádassy, Sándor Pécsi, Lea Padovani - Klári Tolnay, Bernard Blier - Miklós Szakáts, Claude Cerval - Gábor Mádi Szabó, Claude Brasseur - István Avar, Simone Valére - Zsuzsa Bánki, Zoltán Makláry, Philip Lemaire - György Kálmán, Marianne Krencsey, Gábor Koncz, Pierre Destailles - Zoltán Gera, Jaqueline Porel - Mariann Csernus, Béla Barsi, Gábor Agárdy, Zoltán Basilides, Itala Békés, László Csákányi, Gabrielle Dorziat, Paulette Dubost, Anikó Felföldi, Zsuzsa Farkas, György Gonda, Árpád Gyenge, István Jahner, Lajos Kelemen, Erzsi Máthé, László Misoga, József Madaras, Sándor Siménfalvy, Bertalan Solti, Ottó Szokolay, Endre Tallós, Viktória Újváry, Tamás Verdes, Miklós Zoltay
1963, Hungarian feature film, black and white, 113 min., 35 mm
Awards:
- 1964 – The Hungarian Film Critics’ Prize for Best Actor, Gábor Koncz
   
In a POW camp, somewhere in the Ukraine, the prisoners are presented with a great opportunity: on the occasion of Hitler’s birthday they are challenged to play for their lives against a German soccer team. The Germans appoint Ónodi II, the former soccer star, as the POWs’ coach.
In a POW camp, somewhere in the Ukraine, the prisoners are presented with a great opportunity: on the occasion of Hitler’s birthday they are challenged to play for their lives against a German soccer team. The Germans appoint Ónodi II, the former soccer star, as the POWs’ coach.He believes it impossible to mould a group of starving, physically and emotionally tortured people into great a team. Yet, he realizes the awesome power he now has, because the players he chooses are well fed, nor are they compelled to work in the mines. The eleven literally play for their lives and beat the Germans. The euphoric post-match celebrations are silenced by the heavy gunfire of the Germans.
Director: Zoltán Fábri
Screenplay: Péter Bacsó
Poems: Attila József
Story Editor: Gábor Thurzó
D.O.P.: Ferenc Szécsényi
Editor: Mrs.Szécsényi
Music: Ferenc Farkas
Sound: György Pintér
Art Director: Zoltán Fábri
Still Photo: Tibor Inkey
Production Manager: Ottó Föld
Cast: Imre Sinkovits, Dezső Garas, László Márkus, Tibor Molnár, János Koltai, Sándor Suka, Zoltán Gera, István Velenczey, József Horváth, János Rajz, János Görbe, István Egri, János Maklári, József Szendrő
1961, Hungarian feature film, black and white, 122 min, 35 mm
Awards:
- 1962 – The Hungarian Film Critics’ Prize for Best Director, Best Actor Award to Imre Sinkovits
- Boston: Certificate
   
A tormented soul, Ferenc Kós, returns home from the Soviet Union, where he has been imprisoned as a POW. He tries to start a new life in his house by Lake Balaton.
A tormented soul, Ferenc Kós, returns home from the Soviet Union, where he has been imprisoned as a POW. He tries to start a new life in his house by Lake Balaton.His wife is dead, and his son is now being taken care of by the sister of his late wife, the hunchback, Tera. She nurses Ferenc tenderly, hoping he will eventually fall in love with her. However, Ferenc marries another woman, Zsuzsa, and the house turns out to be too small for the four of them. Ferenc cannot set his mind to sending Tera away. She constantly expresses her jealousy and hatred of Ferenc’s new wife. Meanwhile, a rude forester tries to seduce Zsuzsa. Unable to bear the tension, Ferenc pushes Tera into a chasm. Zsuzsa, his wife, leaves him. Ferenc gives himself up to the police. „The House Under the Rocks (Ház a szikiák alatt) is considered by many to be Hungarian director Karoly Makk`s masterpiece. One of the hits of the 1958 Venice Film Festival, The House Under the Rocks was equally well received at the San Francisco Film Festival” (Hal Erickson)
Director: Károly Makk
Writer: Sándor Tatay
Story Editor: Péter Bacsó
D.O.P: Illés György
Editor: Sándor Boronkay
Music: István Sárközi
Sound: Tibor Rajky
Art Director: Lászó Duba
Costume Designer: Éva Weingruber
Still Photo: János Oláh
Production Manager: Ottó Föld
Cast: János Görbe, Irén Psota, Margit Bara, György Bárdy, József Bihari, Ádám Szirtes, Sándor Deák, Viola Orbán
1959, Hungarian feature film, black and white, 101 min., 35 mm
Awards:
- 1958 – San Francisco: Best Movie Award
- 1968 – „The Budapest Twelve”
   
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