It is an adaptation of the Toldi trilogy, a 19th-century epic poem in three parts by János Arany. Read More »
Tag Archives: Hungarian
Sound Eroticism AKA Egészséges erotika (1985) Péter Tímár, Ádám Rajhona, Róbert Koltai, Judit Németh
The manager of the country crate factory have TV cameras installed in the women’s dressing room. Read More »
Forest AKA Rengeteg (2003) Benedek Fliegauf, Rita Braun, Barbara Csonka, Laszlo Cziffer
We see people in a shopping mall; one man deliberately leaves a backpack behind in the crowd Read More »
The Lion Is Ready to Jump AKA Az oroszlán ugrani készül (1969) György Révész, Andor Ajtay, Irén Psota, István Bujtor
SS doctor during the war worked on the serum of cancer, but discovered a terrible poison Read More »
The Stud Farm (1978) András Kovács, József Madaras, Ferenc Bács, Ferenc Fábián
A new supervisor arrives at a horse ranch, but he is not at all well liked Read More »
Hungarians AKA Magyarok (1978) Zoltán Fábri, Gábor Koncz, Éva Pap, József Bihari
A group of landless Hungarian peasants accept work as migrant-laborers on a farm in northern Germany where the wages are good Read More »
Forbidden Relations AKA Visszaesök (1983) Zsolt Kézdi-Kovács, Lili Monori, Miklós Székely B., Mari Töröcsik
Juli’s husband commits suicide, so she is being persuaded to shed her own. Read More »
Passion AKA Szenvedély (1998) György Fehér, Ildikó Bánsági, Djoko Rosic, János Derzsi
In this black-and-white Hungarian version of James M. Cain’s The Postman Always Rings Twice, a wife and her lover plot to kill her older husband. Read More »
The Boys of Paul Street AKA A Pál utcai fiúk (1968) Zoltán Fábri, Mari Töröcsik, Sándor Pécsi, László Kozák
In Budapest, two rival gangs of young boys lay claim to a vacant lot. Read More »
Hyppolit, the Butler AKA Hyppolit a lakáj (1931) Steve Sekely, Gyula Csortos, Gyula Kabos, Mici Haraszti
Mrs. Schneider is recommended to employ a butler instead of a new chambermaid. Read More »
1945 (2017) Ferenc Török, Péter Rudolf, Bence Tasnádi, Tamás Szabó Kimmel
12 August 1945, 11 AM. Two mysterious strangers, dressed in black, Jews, appear at the railway station of a Hungarian village. Read More »
Idö van AKA Time (1986) Péter Gothár, Márk Zala, Kati Lázár, Gyula Bodrogi
Peter Gothar films give a sharp, uncensored view of the society. Read More »
Sátántangó AKA Satan’s Tango (1994) Béla Tarr, Mihály Vig, Putyi Horváth, László feLugossy
In a small, dilapidated village in 1990s Hungary, life has come to a virtual stand-still. Read More »
Free Fall (2014) György Pálfi, Piroska Molnár, Miklós Benedek, Tamás Jordán
Seven floors, seven identically built apartments yet completely different worlds. Read More »
Woyzeck (1994) János Szász, Lajos Kovács, Diana Vacaru, Éva Igó
Lajos Kovács (WINGS OF DESIRE) stars as the misused Woyzeck, who ekes out a miserable existence sweeping train tracks Read More »