Miklos B. SzekelyFilmography

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

Glamour

Actors: Karoly Eperjes, Eszter Onodi, Gyorgy Barko, Antal Cserna

Synopsis: Frigyes Godros directs this look at 20th century Hungarian history as seen through the eyes of a single Jewish family. The film opens on Passover not long after WWI as the Vendel family celebrates their prosperous life running a furniture business. As the film progresses, the family endures WWII Read More

Anyad! A Szunyogok

Actors: Zoltan Mucsi, Peter Scherrer, Emese Vasvari, Miklos B. Szekely

Synopsis: Legendary filmmaker Miklos Jancso, Jr. returns to the screen with this loose, improvised meditation on the current state of his native Hungary. Kapa (Zoltan Mucsi) and Pepe (Peter Scherrer) are the pair of hard-drinking, fast-talking gravediggers from his previous Nekem Lampast Adott Kezembe Az Ur Pesten Read More

Az Asszony

Synopsis: Based on a true story, that was already filmed as a documentary, this Hungarian drama centers on the poor wife of a man marked by the Communists for death because he participated in 1956 revolution against the Communists. To protect him, the wife has hidden him away in a tiny cell located beneath Read More

Szeressuk Egymast Gyerekek... A Nagy Agyhalal

Synopsis: This Hungarian anthology is comprised of three unconnected short films by different directors that are united in their grim assessment of Hungary in the 1990s. The first, "Fire! Fire! ("Egavaros, Egahazis") is by Pal Sandor and portrays Budapest as a depressing hell on earth filled with Read More

Le Violon De Rothschild

Actors: Sergei Makavetsky, Dainius Kazlauskas, Miklos B. Szekely

Synopsis: Ostensibly this film is the tale of Benjamin Fleischmann, a talented protégé of Soviet composer Shostakovich whose attempts to compose a 40-minute opera during the late '30s are thwarted by the political atmosphere of his time. This almost docudrama also paints a vivid portrait of the master Read More

Rasputin

Actors: Alan Rickman, Greta Scacchi, Ian McKellen

Synopsis: Rasputin is a dramatization of the life story of one of the most intriguing figures in all history. A crude peasant from Siberia, Rasputin (Alan Rickman) was a self-styled charismatic holy man who traveled widely, openly engaging in drunkenness, sexual indulgences, and general debauchery. In the Read More

Citizen X

Actors: Stephen Rea, Donald Sutherland

Synopsis: Stephen Rea stars as a relentless Russian investigator in this made-for-cable thriller. Based on an actual case, this taut film tells the story of Burakov (Rea), a Russian forensic pathologist assigned to track down a brutal serial killer who is targeting young drifters. The nature of the Read More

Ebredes

Synopsis: This European drama chronicles the life of a 13-year old Jewish girl in the 1950's during Stalin's reign. It is told from her point of view. The story begins in 1952. Kati is in class when she is abruptly removed and informed of her mother's death. Because her father works in a distant city, Kati 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

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

Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg

Actors: Stellan Skarsgård, Katharina Thalbach, Karoly Eperjes, Miklos B. Szekely, Erland Josephson

Synopsis: This historical drama chronicles the struggle of Swedish businessman Raoul Wallenberg (Stella Skarsgard), as he fought valiantly to save the lives of the Jewish residents of Nazi-occupied Budapest. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Szürkület

Actors: Peter Haumann, Janos Derzsi, Gyula Pauer, Laszlo Nemeth, Miklos B. Szekely

Synopsis: Those who watch murder mysteries chiefly in order to savor the dark desolation which some of them bring to life will be overjoyed at this grim tale, which follows the attempts of an obsessed policeman to solve the serial killings of little girls even after he has been taken off the case. Most of Read More

Karhozat

Actors: Miklos B. Szekely, Vali Kerekes, Gyula Pauer, Hedi Temessy, György Cserhalmi

Synopsis: Hungarian filmmaker Bela Tarr began his career making social realist domestic dramas, similar to the work of John Cassavettes. The feature before Damnation, Almanac of Fall, showed Tarr moving toward a more visually stylized form of filmmaking. With Damnation, the first of his collaborations with Read More

Szornyek Evadja

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

Mata Hari

Actors: Sylvia Kristel, Christopher Cazenove, Oliver Tobias, Gaye Brown, Gottfried John

Synopsis: Sylvia Kristel adds her sexual allure to the story of Mata Hari (Margaretha Geertruida Zelle), executed by the French in 1917 at the age of 41 for being a double agent. In reality, "Mata Hari" had been married, had children, and performed as a dancer around Europe -- not the normal background for 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

Öszi Almanach

Actors: Hedi Temessy, Miklos B. Szekely, Erika Bodnar, Pal Hetenyi

Synopsis: Possibly inspired by the existential play No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre, this story about five people living in close quarters in a small apartment conveys the same angst as Sartre's well-known story about the nature of hell. Like the 1962 movie version of the play, Oszi Almanach is also garishly Read More

Nyom Nelkul

Actors: Tamas Cseh, Miklos B. Szekely, Karoly Dunai, Zoltan Bezeredi, Istvan Hunyadkurthy

Synopsis: A supposed window dresser is really a thief by natural inclination and he comes up with several ingenious schemes to make money. In one robbery, he and a few accomplices steal a statue from a church, sell it for an exorbitant sum to a few West German citizens, then cause the West Germans' car to 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