Lili MonoriFilmography

Felhö a Gangesz Felett

Actors: Zoltan Ternyak, Ildiko Toth, Lajos Kovács, Miklos B. Szekely, Lili Monori

Synopsis: Gabor Dettre's drama Felhö a Gangesz Felett (Cloud Above the River Ganges) is about a relationship that springs from heroin withdrawal. Juli (Ildiko Toth) has abandoned her husband and children when she meets Andras (Zoltan Ternyak) who convinces her to help him survive his attempt to quit his Read More

Kisvilma: Az Utolso Naplo

Actors: Jan Nowicki, Barbara Hegyi, Kitty Keri, Lukasz Nowicki

Synopsis: Noted director Marta Meszaros finishes up her acclaimed semi-autobiographical "diary" series which started with her 1982 Diary for My Children. After her idealist father gets swept away with Soviet propaganda about a socialist Eden, young Vilma (Lili Monori) gets packed off to Kirgizstan along Read More

Film...

Actors: Ivan Darvas, Hedi Temessy, Peter Haumann, Juli Basti, Andras Balint

Synopsis: Andras Suranyi directs this spare though poignant film recounting the last day of an old man's life. The film opens with an elderly couple making preparations for their morning routine. The wife makes her husband some tea, they walk to the park, and they visit a café before the husband has a Read More

Levelek Perzsiabol

Synopsis: An Iranian girl living in Hungary discovers that her father is alive and living in Persia in this drama. Teenager Maria and her mother, a Hungarian, were forced to leave Iran when the Iran-Iraq war broke out. Maria is a freshman at Budapest's Economic Sciences University. There she learns that her Read More

A Magzat

Actors: Adel Kovats, Alena Antonova, Jan Nowicki, Laszlo Bolyki, Barbara Hegyi

Synopsis: This drama follows the dilemma of a young, unwillingly pregnant wife who gives her child up for adoption by a businesswoman. Anna doesn't need another mouth to feed. She can barely afford to care for the two she already has so when she discovers that she is six weeks pregnant she readily accepts Read More

Sose Halunk Meg

Actors: Robert Koltai, Mihaly Szabados, Tamas Jordan, Gábor Máté

Synopsis: Beloved Hungarian actor and cabaret performer Róbert Koltai stars in this comedy as a basically clueless man with an insatiable appetite for women and an inescapable attraction to every get-rich-quick scheme he runs across. In the story, he is a salesman traveling to the countryside with his Read More

Erozio

Actors: Iren Psota, Lili Monori, Miklos B. Szekely

Synopsis: Joe works at an arduous job in squalid conditions in a swampy warehouse. The workplace is home to a variety of slightly unhinged individuals. Joe is a man of delicate sensibilities, so when a large number of his family members die in a short period of time and his girlfriend's manner sends him to Read More

Es Megis...

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

Cellovolde

Actors: Judit Danyi, Lajos Kovács, Lili Monori

Synopsis: In this chilling drama, the events which led up to a son's shooting murder of his abusive father, aided and abetted by his mother, are explored during a police interrogation. The boy's matter-of-fact response to the questions put to him has a cumulatively powerful effect. Earlier events are shown 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

Eldorado

Actors: Karoly Eperjes, Peter Andorai, Judith Pogany, Eniko Eszenyi, Pal Sztarenki

Synopsis: Geza Beremenyi serves as director of the Hungarian Eldorado. The scene is Budapest, in the darkest days of the 1956 rebellion. The people are not only hungry and oppressed, but stone broke. And then a flea-market entrepreneur discovers he has the ability to turn his wares into gold. Not Read More

Kialtas Es Kialtas

Actors: Jerzy Trela, Maria Varga, Peter Andorai, Lili Monori

Synopsis: Karoly (Jerzy Trela) is a former POW who works in a slaughterhouse in this somber social drama. His wife left him during the counterrevolution of 1956, and Karoly finds comfort in the arms of fellow worker Anna (Lili Monori), but he takes up with Maria (Maria Varga) after he discovers Anna is Read More

Sortuz Egy Fekete Bivalyert

Actors: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jean Rochefort, Fanny Cottençon, Miklos B. Szekely, Laszlo Mate

Synopsis: In this comedy-drama about human foibles, the aftermath of war undoubtedly has something to do with the behavior and feelings of the people living in a small Hungarian village. The lives of the villagers are seen through the eyes of David (Laszlo Mate), an orphaned Jewish boy who has come to Read More

A Rejtozkodo

Actors: Lili Monori, Mari Töröcsik, Vera Pap

Synopsis: In a talkative story that starts out as a romance but seems to head nowhere in particular, a young pilot finds himself without his lady love but saddled with a group of women (mother, sister, and ex-wife) who can make his life difficult. Janos (Peter Breznyik Berg) pilots a crop-duster, and when Read More

Forbidden Relations

Actors: Lili Monori, Miklos B. Szekely, Mari Töröcsik, Jozsef Horvath, Jozsef Toth

Synopsis: The Hungarian Forbidden Relations is a shockingly straightforward treatise on the subject of incest. A woman's (Lili Monori) love for her brother (Miklos B. Szekely) goes far beyond filial devotion. His feelings for her are likewise intense. The problem goes beyond conventional morality: incest is Read More

Örökség

Actors: Isabelle Huppert, Lili Monori, Jan Nowicki, Sandor Szabo, Sr.

Synopsis: In this standard Hungarian drama, the effects of sterility and jealousy on a marriage are played out against a backdrop of World War II and the rising Nazi persecution of Jews. Director Marta Meszaros usually focuses on issues like pregnancy, middle-age, and other topics without questioning the Read More

Ök ketten

Actors: Marina Vlady, Lili Monori, Jan Nowicki

Synopsis: Mari (Marina Vlady) runs a boardinghouse for girls who are in trouble, and Juli (Lili Monori) is a young married woman who is fleeing her passionate marriage with an uncontrollable alcoholic. She has brought her young daughter along with her. Though this is not allowed under the house rules, Mari Read More

Azonositás

Actors: György Cserhalmi, Jozsef Madaras, Lili Monori, Robert Koltai, Ludovit Gresso

Synopsis: While awaiting his release from the Soviet detention camp he is being held in, a half-starved refugee (Andras Ambrus) finds that an error has been made and his name is not on the to-be-released list. It is then that he is forced to assume the identity of a dead man whose name is on the list. Read More

Kilenc hónap

Actors: Lili Monori, Jan Nowicki

Synopsis: Janos (Jan Nowicki) is a factory foreman, who is smitten by the beauty of Juli (Lili Monori) and begins a romance with her. Incredibly jealous from the outset, he becomes quite abusive when he discovers she has a child, whom her parents are raising. Nonetheless, he presses her to marry him, and Read More

Ha megjön József

Actors: Lili Monori, Eva Ruttkai, Gabor Koncz, Maria Ronyecz

Synopsis: Two women, a mother-in-law and her son's wife, discover that their common experiences bind them together in a deep complicity, so that when their husbands return from merchant marine assignments, they will not speak of what went on (and a lot did) during their absence. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Read More

Bastyasetany hetvennegy

Actors: Evald Schorm, Lili Monori, Robert Koltai, Lajos Öze

Synopsis: Two buffoonish bureaucrats are forced to house a large group of people of all ages and discover that their rule-making procedures don't work as well on people in the home. This social comedy is also a musical, with songs composed by Ferenc Gyulai. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide Read More

A tanú

Actors: Ferenc Kallai, Lajos Öze, Zoltán Fábri, Bela Both, Lili Monori

Synopsis: In this stark political satire, a poor Hungarian dike worker is utterly bewildered by the unfathomable red tape of Stalin's bureaucracy. Though the film was made in 1969, it wasn't released in Hungary until 1978. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More