The symbol-laden works of the celebrated and award-winning Hungarian director Miklós Jancsó evoke esteem from many critics,...
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1991
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Kristof is fifty, an age when many men are settling comfortably into their lives and are preparing for the forthcoming...
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Kristof Zeyk
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1991
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This apparently autobiographical drama focuses on the harrowing plight of a couple suffering from forced relocation by the...
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Vendel Imre
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1988
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The work of renowned Hungarian screenwriter and director Miklos Jancso has grown increasingly enigmatic since his first film...
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1988
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Zoltai (Andras Balint) is a Hungarian professor who returns home after a visit to the United States. Following a television...
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1987
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Produced in 1969, the year after widespread student demonstrations in Europe, this amateur docudrama (made by students) is...
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1986
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The brutality that preceded the 1956 protests in Hungary may have fanned the plot of this 1981 political drama. After a...
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Balint
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1980
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In this poetic and highly stylized film, as order collapsed in Hungary towards the end of the Second World War, a group of...
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Cinvict
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1975
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An unexplained incident before a Hungarian firing squad during World War II is exploited by the authorities to boost morale...
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Chaplain
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1974
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A young doctor and his friend visit the friend's cousin in a rural area in this foreboding tragedy. Their host is a doctor...
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Andras
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1970
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A group of anarchistic Croatians cross borders to carry out their assassination plots in order to create political chaos....
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1969
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This feature follows the student unrest that gripped Hungary in the wake of the 1947 socialist revolution. Scores of...
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Kozma
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1968
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The Girl (Eltavozott nap) was the first feature-length directorial effort of Hungarian filmmaker Marta Meszaros. Filmed in...
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1968
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The story begins amidst political instability after an abortive attempt by the communists to seize power in 1919. The police...
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Istvan
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1967
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In The Father (Apa), Hungarian filmmaker Istvan Szabo invests a great deal of poetry and warmth in a story that, in lesser...
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1967
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Miklos Jancso has said, "To show things in bright colors is devastating." In Csillagosok, Katonak, he examines Hungarians...
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Laszlo
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1967
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The changing and turbulent history of Hungary is seen through the eyes of three men over a 30-year period in this somber...
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Son
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1967
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The English-language title of this Hungarian drama refers to a true incident of 1848. Following the famous Kossuth Rebellion,...
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Kabai's Son
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1966
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A 17-year-old Hungarian youth finds himself in Russian territory after fleeing from the Nazis in this World War II drama. He...
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Student
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1964
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Director Istvan Gaal's feature film debut was well received in the international community as well as his native country,...
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Lujza
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1963
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Set in 1956 during the Hungarian rebellion, this partisan drama downplays the seriousness of the revolt, in part by setting...
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1959
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