Peter Haumann Filmography

Adventurers

Actors: Peter Haumann, Péter Rudolf, Milan Schruff, Agnes Banfalvy, Judith Pogany

Synopsis: A man finds himself wandering the back roads of Transylvania with his son and his father in this offbeat comedy. Geza (Peter Rudolf) is a musician who had just added another name to his list of ex-wives when his spouse tells him that they're though, forcing him to take up residence in his car. Read More

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

Taltosember

Actors: Laszlo Galffi, Peter Haumann, Imre Csuja, Aniko Fur, Mate Jako

Pizzas

Actors: Andras Kovacs, Eva Kreiter, Denes Bernath, Ildiko Incze, Eva Timar

Synopsis: Gyorgy Balogh's humorous look at Hungarian culture Pizzaman stars Andreas K. Kovacs as the title character, a pizza delivery guy who works with his eccentric friend Puto (Denes Berneath). Pizzaman has a crush on the daughter of the woman who runs the restaurant that he works for, but the film Read More

Hippolyt

Actors: Karoly Eperjes, Robert Koltai, Judith Pogany, Agi Szirtes, Peter Balazs

Synopsis: A reworking of a Istvan Szekely's 1931 comedy classic Hyppolit a Lakaj, this film, directed by Barna Kabay was a huge success in its native Hungary. The Schneider family has grown rich from a transportation company that inept patriarch Matyas inherited from his father. They live with all the 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

Werckmeister Harmóniák

Actors: Lars Rudolph, Peter Fitz, Hanna Schygulla, Janos Derzsi, Djocko Rossitch

Synopsis: Bela Tarr follows up on his seven-hour epic Satantango, considered by some critics as one of the finest films of the 1990s, with this elegant, haunting work about the cycles of violence that have dogged Eastern European history. Jancos (Lars Rudolph) is a wide-eyed innocent who works as an Read More

Az Alkimista és a Szûz

Actors: Mariusz Bonaszewski, Eszter Onodi, Danuta Zaflarska, Norbert Novenyi, Peter Haumann

Synopsis: Science fiction, fantasy, comedy, and eroticism meet in this unusual Hungarian drama. Sziraki (Mariusz Bonazewski) is a college professor who is studying ancient alchemist's texts, trying to discover the key to making gold. When a virginal teenager he has become infatuated with helps with his Read More

A Brooklyn Testver

Synopsis: This lightweight Hungarian comedy chronicles the return of an expatriate who has been away for over 38 years. When the Russians invaded Hungary in 1956, 14-year old Tamas Gordon fled the country. But for a case of mumps, he took almost nothing with him. Now he returns with Shirley, his Read More

Woyzeck

Actors: Lajos Kovács, Diana Vacaru, Peter Haumann, Alexander Porokhovshchikov, Sandor Gaspar

Synopsis: Hungarian director Janos Szasz based this film on a famous 1837 German play, changing the alienated title character from a soldier to a railroad worker. Woyzeck (Lajos Kovacs) is a slovenly flag man in a Budapest railroad yard. At work he is harassed by his boss, an army captain who makes him run Read More

Anna Filmje

Actors: György Cserhalmi

Synopsis: Anna (Anna Ráczkevei) has a loving husband and three healthy, cheerful children. It has taken a lot of luck and a lot of work to get to this point, but she is satisfied. Who would have imagined that, after becoming pregnant and marrying at sixteen, things would have turned out so well. However Read More

Vörös Vurstli

Synopsis: In 1919, shortly after World War I, a communist government briefly achieved power after a revolution. In this historical drama, the effects that revolution had on Hungary's citizens is shown in the lives of a troupe of sideshow performers at a circus. Filmed in black and white, this movie uses 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

Hajnali Haztetok

Actors: György Cserhalmi, Peter Andorai, Katalin Takacs, Dorottya Udvaros, Denissa Der

Synopsis: A man recalls the memory of his late childhood friend in a series of flashbacks in this uneven political drama. Benedict Both (Gyorgy Cserhalmi) is the painter and political activist who along with friend Peter Halasz (Peter Andorai) took to the streets during the 1956 Soviet invasion of Hungary. Read More

Egeszseges Erotika

Actors: Robert Koltai, Peter Haumann, Kata Kristof, Judit Nemeth

Synopsis: A dubious plot device is made less-convincing by the direction and acting in this film about a growing group of voyeurs. The manager of a crate-making factory (Adam Rajhona) is inspired to hide a video camera in the workers' changing room (the workers are all women). As he and his fire officer Read More

Hanyatt-homlok

Actors: Andras Kern, Gyorgyi Tarjan, Laszlo Mensaros, Tamas Major

Synopsis: In this fast-paced satire, Ferenc Deak (Andras Kern) is a successful Hungarian writer persecuted by the police for reasons that are absurd, and his life goes downhill from there. While Deak is celebrating his most recent award (the Ovidon Prize for literature -- Ovidon is a contraceptive), the Read More

Gyertek El A Nevnapomra

Actors: Ildiko Piros, Istvan Bujtor, Ferenc Kallai, Gabor Madi Szabo

Synopsis: Rather than build suspense in this drama about a murder and its subsequent cover-up, director Zoltan Fabri has curiously chosen to focus on the story of the actual crime as it occurred and then to show how an investigative reporter starts to discover the truth about what really happened. So the Read More

Szines Tintakrol Almodom

Kemenykalap Es Krumpliorr

A Kard

Actors: Peter Haumann, Mari Szemes

Synopsis: Mr. Botji (Peter Haumann) travels to Vienna, in this comedy, to see a famous Hungarian historical relic, a sword, which is being auctioned off. Somewhere along the way, he decides that it should belong to the Hungarian people: he sells the family car for cash and makes the winning bid at the Read More

Szepek Es Bolondok

Actors: Ferenc Kallai

Synopsis: Ivciz (Ferenc Kallai) is a baker who lives only for his Sundays when he travels from Budapest to surrounding towns to serve as one of the two umpires at soccer matches. Though his life is a dull one, he seems satisfied until during his journeys, he meets a woman who owns a pastry shop. Just as it Read More

Fekete Gyemantok

Actors: Peter Huszti, Peter Haumann, Sandor Szabo, Sr.

Synopsis: Ivan (Peter Huszti), the owner of a coal mine, must fend off buyout bids in the Viennese capital by a scheming financier, put out fires in the mine itself, and cope with his attraction for Evita (Szilvia Sunyovszky), one of the miner's daughters. Set in 1867, this story follows the owner through Read More

Hoszakadas

Synopsis: This movie tells of the exploits of a young Hungarian soldier, who, on a midwinter 15-day leave, goes with his grandmother to track down his father who has deserted from the army and joined the (communist) partisans. The two of them are confronted by an army search party, and in order to win their Read More

Nines Ido

Synopsis: In this tightly crafted and detailed prison drama, set in the late 1920s, a murderer is placed in the same cell-block as three communists and, through his contact with the three men, comes to a heightened political awareness and an awareness of the human potential for bravery. He was put there as Read More

Almodo Ifjusag

Synopsis: Infused with the atmosphere of a provincial town in Hungary in the year 1906, this film considers the ensuing conflict when changes come to that part of the world, and the tendency of the town's established intellectuals to cling to the high culture of a bygone era. The story focuses on the Read More

Forro vizet a kopaszra!

Actors: Peter Haumann

Synopsis: When the barber Boroka (Istvan Gyarmati) accidentally shaves the head of The Boss (Peter Haumann), he unleashes a flurry of head-shavings all over Hungary, beginning with his own. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide Read More

Kincskereso Kiskodmon

Plusz Minusz Egy Nap

Synopsis: This Hungarian film follows an affectless old ex-convict around as he smokes endless cigarettes and reminisces with various people about his crimes during the second World War. In a concluding scene, no more dramatic than those which precede it, he kills a tavern-keeper he has been visiting, a man Read More

Még kér a nép

Synopsis: Red Psalm, or Még kér a nép (literally: "The People Still Ask") is one of the great Hungarian film director Miklos Jancso's best-known films. It recounts quite poetically the story of a peasant uprising on an estate in Hungary in the 1890s. It examines the nature of revolt, and the issues of 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