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Actors: Andras Kozak, Lili Monori, Laszlo Mensaros, Iren Bordan
Synopsis: Kristof is fifty, an age when many men are settling comfortably into their lives and are preparing for the forthcoming season of old age and retirement. However, something happened to him when Hungary's communist government fell and society changed. A journalist, he had long opposed the regime in Read More
Actors: Karoly Eperjes, Gyorgy Dorner, Jozsef Madaras, Lajos Balazsovits, Andras Kozak
Synopsis: The symbol-laden works of the celebrated and award-winning Hungarian director Miklós Jancsó evoke esteem from many critics, and rolled eyes from others: this film is no different in that regard. In the story, which is set immediately after the departure of Russian "advisors" from Hungary and the Read More
Actors: Juli Basti, György Cserhalmi, Ildikó Bánsági, Dorottya Udvaros, Andras Balint
Synopsis: The work of renowned Hungarian screenwriter and director Miklos Jancso has grown increasingly enigmatic since his first film in 1958. Jézus Krisztus horoszkópja is no exception to this rule. Jancso emphasizes highly evocative and ambiguous imagery over dialog or exposition. Here he seems primarily Read More
Actors: Andras Kozak, Jolanta Grusznic
Synopsis: This apparently autobiographical drama focuses on the harrowing plight of a couple suffering from forced relocation by the Stalinist Soviet regime in Hungary during the early 1950s. Relocation was used as a form of punishment for people accused by the Communist regime of various crimes. In this Read More
Actors: György Cserhalmi, Ferenc Kallai, Jozsef Madaras, Katarzyna Figura
Synopsis: Zoltai (Andras Balint) is a Hungarian professor who returns home after a visit to the United States. Following a television interview, he commits suicide and leaves a note for his longtime friend Dr. Bardocz (Gyorgy Cserhalmi).The doctor and Zoltai's colleague Komindi (Jozsef Madaras) join the Read More
Actors: Gabor Body, György Cserhalmi
Synopsis: Produced in 1969, the year after widespread student demonstrations in Europe, this amateur docudrama (made by students) is set in 1919 when the communists gained power in Hungary. Combining some brutal newsreel footage with debates held during this period, it becomes clear that the peasants of Read More
Actors: Tibor Szilagyi, Andras Kozak, Alicja Jachiewicz, Gabor Koncz, Ferenc Bessenyei
Synopsis: The brutality that preceded the 1956 protests in Hungary may have fanned the plot of this 1981 political drama. After a rather vicious soccer game, the coach of the losing team unleashes his rage against the umpire in a locker room fight that ends up with the umpire very dead, his head bashed Read More
Actors: Mari Töröcsik, Andras Kozak
Synopsis: In this poetic and highly stylized film, as order collapsed in Hungary towards the end of the Second World War, a group of communists and resistance fighters are able to escape from the prison they have been held in. In one symbolic scene, as the escapees continue to avoid the Germans and their Read More
Actors: Andras Kozak, Jozsef Madaras, Sandor Horvath, Janos Koltai, Laszlo Szabo
Synopsis: An unexplained incident before a Hungarian firing squad during World War II is exploited by the authorities to boost morale during a difficult period. A man who was to be shot for desertion was left tied to the execution post while everyone else fled for cover during an aerial bombardment. When Read More
Actors: Rudolf Somogyvari, Mari Töröcsik, Andras Kozak
Synopsis: A young doctor and his friend visit the friend's cousin in a rural area in this foreboding tragedy. Their host is a doctor who had been involved in the Stalin trials of the early 1950s. They arrive to find the doctor has shot a poacher, supposedly the victim of a long running feud between the two. Read More
Actors: Jacques Charrier, Marina Vlady, Eva Swann, Jozsef Madaras, Istvan Bujtor
Synopsis: A group of anarchistic Croatians cross borders to carry out their assassination plots in order to create political chaos. There are no heroes, only a collection of despicable humans. A lesbian couple rapes and terrorizes a roomful of women who are ordered to disrobe and perform unwanted sex acts Read More
Actors: Teri Horvath, Adam Szirtes, Gabor Agardy, Zsuzsa Palos
Synopsis: The Girl (Eltavozott nap) was the first feature-length directorial effort of Hungarian filmmaker Marta Meszaros. Filmed in austere black-and-white, the story involves a girl's search for her biological parents. Once she finds her natural mother, the girl forsakes her relatively secure factory job Read More
Actors: Andrea Drahota, Lajos Balazsovits, Andras Kozak
Synopsis: This feature follows the student unrest that gripped Hungary in the wake of the 1947 socialist revolution. Scores of students are now able to attend college. Students march in an organized parade and push police into the water. They try to convince students at a parochial school to join them. Read More
Actors: Andras Kozak, Krystyna Mikolajewska, Tibor Molnar, Jacint Juhasz, Jozsef Madaras, Tatyana Konyukhova, Mikhail Kozakov
Synopsis: Miklos Jancso has said, "To show things in bright colors is devastating." In Csillagosok, Katonak, he examines Hungarians fighting in the Red Army in 1918 during the bloody civil war in Russia. Utilizing horizontal compositions of vast landscapes and lateral tracking shots in a widescreen frame to Read More
Actors: Tibor Molnar, Andras Kozak
Synopsis: The changing and turbulent history of Hungary is seen through the eyes of three men over a 30-year period in this somber drama. The three recall the highlights of their lives in flashbacks as they reminisce in the mid 1960s. The venerable trio begin their story in the 1930s, through World War II Read More
Actors: Mari Töröcsik, Andrea Drahota, Andras Kozak, Zoltan Latinovits
Synopsis: The story begins amidst political instability after an abortive attempt by the communists to seize power in 1919. The police and the army are rounding up the insurgents, and a young communist is tracked down to a rural area. The army officer knows the wanted man, having been a childhood friend of Read More
Actors: Andras Balint, Miklos Gabor, Klari Tolnay, Daniel Erdelyi, Kati Solyom
Synopsis: In The Father (Apa), Hungarian filmmaker Istvan Szabo invests a great deal of poetry and warmth in a story that, in lesser hands, might have become a wallow in bathos. After his father is killed in World War II, a young Hungarian boy named Tako concocts a fantasy image of the parent he never Read More
Actors: Janos Gorbe, Tibor Molnar, Andras Kozak, Gabor Agardy, Zoltan Latinovits, Istvan Avar
Synopsis: The English-language title of this Hungarian drama refers to a true incident of 1848. Following the famous Kossuth Rebellion, the Hungarian police "round up" the likely suspects. They then subject the peasant prisoners to a sophisticated, ritualized form of psychological torture. Any resemblance Read More
Actors: Andras Kozak, Sergei Nikonenko
Synopsis: A 17-year-old Hungarian youth finds himself in Russian territory after fleeing from the Nazis in this World War II drama. He is placed with a wounded Soviet soldier and ordered to tend to the cattle. The two become good friends, but the soldier's health begins to fail. In a desperate attempt to Read More
Actors: Andrea Drahota, Mariann Moor, Andras Kozak
Synopsis: Director Istvan Gaal's feature film debut was well received in the international community as well as his native country, Hungary. Sodrasban/Current is about a group of young people who vacation around a small town. They spend their time playing around, taking life lightly. One day while they are Read More
Actors: Zoltan Maklary, Tibor Bitskey, Ferenc Ladanyi, Sandor Pecsi
Synopsis: Set in 1956 during the Hungarian rebellion, this partisan drama downplays the seriousness of the revolt, in part by setting the story not in Budapest, but in a small village. The local rebels take over a military base where the soldiers themselves are divided about which side of the fence they Read More
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