Ildikó Bánsági Filmography

Children of Glory

Actors: Kata Dobo, Ivan Fenyo, Sándor Csányi, Karoly Gesztesi, Ildikó Bánsági

Synopsis: A nation whose dreams of freedom have been crushed meet their rivals on a different field of battle in this drama inspired by a true story. In 1956, Karcsi Szabo (Ivan Fenyo) was a star athlete at the University of Budapest and had been named captain of the national water polo team than would Read More

Ten Minutes Older: The Cello

Actors: Amit Arroz, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Mark Long, Alexandra Staden, Dominic West

Synopsis: Eight master directors of world cinema combine forces for this omnibus film that focuses cumulatively on the subject of time. Bookended by cello interludes, Ten Minutes Older: The Cello presents just one parameter to each of its filmmakers: no final entry can be more or less than ten minutes long. Read More

Rose's Songs

Actors: Rózsa Énekei, Ildikó Bánsági, Franco Castellano, Maia Morgenstern, Djoko Rosic

Synopsis: Hungarian director Andor Szilagyi received a much-coveted Crystal Globe nomination at the Karlovy-Vary Film Festival for directing this period drama. The film unfolds in WWII-era Budapest, Hungary (in the fall of 1944) and follows the plight of a Jewish clan, the Halasz family, as they hide from Read More

Szenvedely

Actors: Ildikó Bánsági, Janos Derzsi, Dzsoko Rozsics

Synopsis: In this black-and-white Hungarian version of James M. Cain's The Postman Always Rings Twice (filmed four times previously), a wife (Ildiko Bansagi) and her lover (Janos Derzsi) plot to kill her older husband (Dzsoko Rozsics). This time the book's opening chapters have been dropped to have the tale Read More

Steadying the Boat

Synopsis: Made by Hungarian filmmaker Istvan Szabo as an entry in the Scottish BBC television series Director's Place -- a program devoted to offering insightful self-portraits of the world's great filmmakers -- this highly symbolic venture is more subtle than other entries in that it focuses not on Szabo Read More

Zsotem

Actors: Ildikó Bánsági

Synopsis: Visions of living the good life are sufficiently compelling for Anita and Sylvia that they are prepared to overlook the fact that Laci is a decidedly creepy man. Instead, they head off to Vienna with him, expecting almost anything but what they find, which to work for cash at a crummy strip joint Read More

Roncsfilm

Actors: Agi Szirtes, András Szöke, Peter Andorai

Synopsis: The post-communist era in Hungary, as in so many countries, has been fraught with paradoxes. The increase in many freedoms has been accompanied by the impoverishment of many segments of society, and the sudden access to wealth by a very few, particularly hoodlums and criminals. This slice-of-life Read More

Kek Duna Keringo

Actors: Dorottya Udvaros, Ildikó Bánsági

Synopsis: When Hungary's newest prime minister is shot and killed at a reception, the resulting investigation is necessarily swift and comprehensive. This compelling political thriller uncovers two prime suspects: the woman who guns the leader down, and a man who was friends with both the prime minister and Read More

Edes Emma, Draga Böbe - Vazlatok, Aktok

Actors: Johanna ter Steege, Peter Andorai

Synopsis: Emma has moved to Budapest from the countryside with her good friend Böbe, and both of them have taken jobs as schoolteachers. However, their wages are pitifully small, and all they can afford in the way of housing is a shared room in a boarding house near the airport. The two women have settled Read More

Meeting Venus

Actors: Glenn Close, Niels Arestrup, Erland Josephson, Macha Meril

Synopsis: Meeting Venus is based on a play cowritten by the film's director, Istvan Szabo. Glenn Close plays a celebrated Swedish opera star Karin Anderson who is slated to appear in an internationally-telecast production of Tannhauser. Ms. Anderson balks at the notion of working with obscure Hungarian Read More

Napló apámnak, anyámnak

Actors: Zsuzsa Czinkoczi, Ildikó Bánsági, Anna Polony

Synopsis: This is the third of the very autobiographical and very anti-communist "diary" movies made by noted Hungarian woman director Marta Meszaros. Since it takes up where the second film left off, it is helpful to have seen the previous films in order to make sense of the story. Set in Budapest in 1956 Read More

Iskolakerulok

Actors: Karoly Eperjes, Dorottya Udvaros, Ildikó Bánsági, Eszter Csakanyi, Maria Gladkowska

Synopsis: The complicated and chaotic life of a good-hearted boarding school geography teacher figures prominently in this meandering melodrama. The teacher's efforts to help a suicidal student only add to the chaos in his own household. And he must somehow fend off the love-struck attentions of a fellow Read More

Hanussen

Actors: Erland Josephson, Ildikó Bánsági, Walter Schmidinger, Karoly Eperjes

Synopsis: Based on a true story, Istvan Szabo's Hanussen centers on an Austrian soldier (Klaus Maria Brandauer) who becomes clairvoyant after he is shot in the head during World War I. He is able to read minds and predict the future. Before long, he has foreseen Hitler and the Nazis' rise to power, and he Read More

Jézus Krisztus horoszkópja

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

Csok, Anyu!

Actors: Dorottya Udvaros, Robert Koltai, Simon Gevai, Sandor Gaspar

Synopsis: A busy family communicates with one another by leaving written notes in between their various responsibilities in this somber drama. Peti Kalmar (Simon G. Gevai) is a young teenage son who skips school and observes the world through a hidden telescope from his closet. His father is a businessman Read More

What's the Time, Mr. Clock?

Actors: Tamas Jordan, Ildikó Bánsági, Gyorgy Melis, Ferenc Kallai, Kornel Gelley

Synopsis: Although its title may sound like a children's story, this finely-tuned comedy-drama is about an expert watchmaker in a small Hungarian village during World War II when the Gestapo come in to run the affairs of the town. The watchmaker Arpad (Tamas Jordan) is known as "Mr. Clock" because he has Read More

Eszterlanc

Actors: Ildikó Bánsági, Tibor Kenderesi, Iren Bordan

Synopsis: This Hungarian slice-of-life from director Andras Peterffy focuses on the troubles of a pre-teen both at school and at home. Eszter (Henriett Deres) has already experienced the trauma of her parents' divorce and is now living with her mother while visiting her father often. Her mother tends to Read More

Gyerekrablas a Palank Utcaban

Hosszu vagta

Actors: John Savage, Kelly Reno, Ildikó Bánsági, Laszlo Mensaros, Ferenc Bacs

Synopsis: Brady (John Savage) is an American bomber pilot during World War II. While flying over Nazi-occupied Hungary, Brady and his navigator, Swede (Matyas Usztic), are forced to bail out. The good news is that they don't fall into the hands of the Germans; the bad news is that they're captured by a Read More

A Remeny Joga

Actors: Ildikó Bánsági, Istvan Novak

Synopsis: A boy is staying with his grandfather while his expectant mother - pregnant by her lover - is seeking a divorce. Although the grandfather has a pleasant house, there is an oddball living upstairs who stomps around and telephones the grandfather at all times of the night. When the grandfather dies Read More

Mephisto

Actors: Klaus Maria Brandauer, Krystyna Janda, Ildikó Bánsági, Karin Boyd, Rolf Hoppe

Synopsis: Based on Klaus Mann's novel, Mephisto details the rise of a Faustian character who figuratively sells his soul in exchange for greatness. Hendrik Hofgen (Klaus Maria Brandauer, offering an electric performance) is the star of a state-funded theater department who tires of his job. Like his Read More

Bizalom

Actors: Ildikó Bánsági, Peter Andorai

Synopsis: Confidence is set in wartime Hungary. Fugitives Peter Andorai and Ildiko Bansagi are married, though not to each other. In order to escape the Nazis, the pair must reluctantly pose as husband and wife. Their ever-growing mutual trust and respect eventually blossoms into love. Released in Hungary Read More

Budapesti Mesek

Synopsis: Hungarian director Istvan Szabó's 1976 feature Budapest Tales (AKA Budapesti mesék) unfolds in a purely allegorical, dreamlike realm, rich with indigenous symbolism. Following some great catastrophic onslaught - its exact nature unknown - a number of individuals emerge from hiding and discover a Read More

Ereszd el a szakallamat

Actors: Tamas Major, Ferenc Kallai, Ildikó Bánsági

Synopsis: Little deviations from the norm madden bureaucrats. In this Hungarian satire, bureaucrats who track these deviations in the general population are more than usually suspicious of individuals who, for instance, grow beards. When one of these deviants is a fellow bureaucrat, their indignation knows Read More

Utazás jakabbal

Synopsis: This bleak Hungarian comedy follows the adventures of two young men whose job of filling old fire extinguishers and inspecting fire equipment takes them all over the country. They try to liven things up for themselves, but are not able to do much. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide Read More

Madarkak

Synopsis: In the Hungarian film Madarkak, two girls leave their country lives to try and find husbands and excitement in the city. Instead, they mostly find frustration and hard times. When they have had enough of the city, they discover that the country men they had considered to be uninteresting before Read More