Robert KoltaiFilmography

Colossal Sensation!

Crew: Director

May Day Mayhem!

Crew: Co-producer, Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Robert Koltai

Hippolyt

Crew: Screenwriter

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

Ambar Tanar Ur

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Robert Koltai, Kata Dobo, Ferenc Kallai, Gabor Reviczky, Judit Hernadi

Synopsis: Hungarian comedy star Robert Koltai directed, co-wrote, and stars in this story of a shy schoolteacher looking for love. The teacher is very attracted to one of his students, and as fate would have it, her mother would like him to tutor the girl after school. Between his attempts at winning the Read More

A Miniszter Félrelép

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Andras Kern, Robert Koltai, Sandor Gaspar, Judit Hernadi, Ivan Kamaras

Szamba

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Robert Koltai

Synopsis: This feather-weight Hungarian comedy was helmed by popular local comedian Robert Koltai. It is the story of a hammy actor who tries to force his son to become a thespian too. To please his over enthusiastic father the son dutifully attends drama school. He falls in love with beautiful Eva and Read More

Torvenytelen

Synopsis: In this thriller a man attempts to honor his dying mother's mysterious final wish. Upon her deathbed, Felician's mother asks him to deliver a Bible to an old friend. Unfortunately, the friend is missing. Felician continues his quest and winds up in a village headed by Geza, a mobster. The village Read More

Sose Halunk Meg

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

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

Csapd le Csacsi!

Actors: Sandor Gaspar, Karoly Eperjes

Synopsis: In this comedy, a young couple is building an idyllic life together and think that they are well on the way to "happily every after," as their dream home has nearly been completed. That is, until the wife gets a notice that she is required to come into a health clinic to receive an antibiotic Read More

Tutajosok

Actors: Sandor Gaspar, Pal Hetenyi, Franciszek Pieczka, Andras Stohl

Synopsis: In this drama, the ritual killing of a young woman causes a pair of Jewish loggers to begin suspecting each other of the crime. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

H.M. Deserters

Actors: Marek Kondrat, Zoltan Bezeredi, Wiktor Zborowski, Zbigniew Zapasiewicz

Synopsis: A diverse group of soldiers defending the Austro-Hungarian empire are the subject of this lengthy comedy. Czechs, Poles, Jews, Hungarians, and Italian regulars combine forces to put down their new commander, a sadistic German-born officer with a penchant for handing out public humiliation and 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

A Nagy Generáció

Actors: György Cserhalmi, Karoly Eperjes, Mari Kiss, Dorottya Udvaros, Robert Koltai

Synopsis: This award-winning film by Ferenc Andras is a commentary on the nature of the older and younger generation in Hungary during the mid-'80s. Reb (Gyorgy Cserhalmi) stole his friend Makai's (Karoly Eperjes) passport in 1968 and took off for the U.S. Seventeen years later, he comes back to 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

Ticha Radost

Hulyeseg Nem Akadaly

Actors: Andor Lukats, Jadwiga Jankowska, Gábor Máté, Jan Nowicki, Robert Koltai

Synopsis: In this slapstick comedy, Robi (Andor Lucas) is married to a perfectly normal woman named Iren (Jadwiga Jankowska). However, his behavior is more like a child with Attention Deficit Disorder. He's a hyperactive adult who will jump into a fish tank and take a swim, or get up on the table during a Read More

Gyerekrablas a Palank Utcaban

Boszorkanyszombat

Actors: Dorottya Udvaros, Eniko Eszenyi, Robert Koltai, Antal Pager

Synopsis: Director Janos Rozsa has gathered together a group of fairy-tale characters (and writers) like Snow White, Cinderella, the Brothers Grimm, and Little Red Riding Hood to be there when Sleeping Beauty wakes up after her 100-year nap, but once this setting is established, he moves away from a Read More

Viadukt

Actors: Michael Sarrazin, Towje Kleiner, Constanze Engelbrecht, Ferenc Bacs, Herlinde Latzko

Synopsis: The year is 1931. Someone is trying to permanently derail the Orient Express. This drama, based on a true story, explains who and why. The mad bomber is Sylvester Matushka, a Hungarian businessman. He has destroyed the train and many have died. Now Dr. Epstein is called in to investigate and find Read More

Panelkapcsolat

Actors: Judith Pogany

Synopsis: Suffering from economic hardships that slowly rip apart their once harmonious relationship, a married couple (Judit Pogany and Robert Koltai) struggle to keep everything together -- yet the husband becomes increasingly passive and the wife increasingly strident as time goes by. Their difficulties Read More

A Trombitas

Actors: Ferenc Bencze, Robert Koltai

Synopsis: In the late 17th century, Hungary moved from Turkish to Austrian domination, becoming a key part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. In this story, which takes place shortly after that time, three outlaws murder a group of people on their way to a wedding. One young man was a slave travelling with the Read More

Kihajolni Veszelyes

Actors: Nandor Tomanek, Gyula Bodrogi, Mari Kiss, Janos Szikora, Ferenc Bencze

Synopsis: When he is thrown off the train at a remote country station for failing to be able to show his ticket, and for having suspiciously poor personal documents, the young man in this story little suspects the rawness of the future which awaits him. Forced to stay at the station house overnight while Read More

Pokfoci

Actors: Jozsef Madaras, Judit Halasz, Adam Rajhona, Hedi Temessy, Robert Koltai

Synopsis: An incompetent school administrator bamboozles a crew of inspectors into thinking that his students are doing okay in this Hungarian comedy. Among his pedagogical inventions is a game called "spider football," in which students, moving along on their backsides, hands and feet, play a highly 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

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

A Kenguru

Actors: Robert Koltai, Erzsi Pasztor

Synopsis: As a long-haired young truckdriver journeys along, he dreams of driving in other countries and fantasizes about women. Over her parent's objections, he marries a young woman he has been seeing. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide 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