A band of runaways and orphans of the war scour the countryside in search of food and shelter. Read More »
Tag Archives: Hungary
Ant-Hill AKA Hangyaboly (1971) Zoltán Fábri, Mari Töröcsik, Éva Vass, Éva Pap
The abbess is dying and in preparing for the new election, younger nuns would like Read More »
Diary for My Parents AKA Napló apámnak, anyámnak (1990) Márta Mészáros, Zsuzsa Czinkóczi, Jan Nowicki, Mari Töröcsik
The story follows a young student who is orphaned as it grows to adulthood Read More »
141 Minutes from the Unfinished Sentence AKA 141 perc a befejezetlen mondatból (1975) Zoltán Fábri, András Bálint, Mari Csomós, Zoltán Latinovits
Parcen Lörinc the Great, the son of a large-scale family Read More »
The Red and the White AKA Csillagosok, katonák (1967) Miklós Jancsó, József Madaras, Tibor Molnár, András Kozák
In 1919, Hungarian Communists aid the Bolsheviks’ defeat of Czarists, the Whites. Read More »
The Battle of Mohacs AKA A mohácsi vész (2004) Miklós Jancsó, Zoltán Mucsi, Péter Scherer, Péter Halász
Fifth film in the Kapa and Pepe series. A professor and a policeman go back in time to the 16th Century Read More »
The Agitators AKA Agitátorok (1971) Dezsö Magyar, László Bertalan, Gábor Bódy, György Cserhalmi
After the World War I, enthusiastic young people found the intellectual group of Hungarian Communist Party. Read More »
Prank AKA Tréfa (2009) Péter Gárdos, Lóránd Váta, Tamás Lengyel, Mihály Kovács
It is 1912 and war looms on the horizon. The school year begins in a boarding school run by priests. Read More »
Control AKA Kontroll (2003) Nimród Antal, Sándor Csányi, Eszter Balla, Zoltán Mucsi
Ghost trains and ghostly characters, figuratively speaking of course Read More »
A Long Weekend in Pest and Buda AKA Egy hét Pesten és Budán (2003) Károly Makk, Mari Töröcsik, Iván Darvas, Eszter Nagy-Kálózy
Iván is living in exile from Hungary when he receives word that an old flame is ill. Read More »
The Inheritance AKA Örökség (1980) Márta Mészáros, Isabelle Huppert, Lili Monori, Jan Nowicki
Hungary on the eve of the Second World War. Rich and inferior Szilvia is married to Akos Read More »
My Way Home AKA Így jöttem (1965) Miklós Jancsó, András Kozák, Sergey Nikonenko, Béla Barsi
In the final days of WWII, a seventeen-year-old boy wanders the countryside. Read More »
Singing on the Treadmill AKA Bástyasétány hetvennégy (1984) Gyula Gazdag, Evald Schorm, István Iglódi, Lili Monori
Two librettists, Mr. Rezso and Mr. Dezso arrive and pluck people living in a bare valley Read More »
The Round-Up AKA Szegénylegények (1966) Miklós Jancsó, János Görbe, Zoltán Latinovits, Tibor Molnár
In Hungary, the national movement led by Kossuth has been crushed and the Austrian hegemony re-established Read More »
Land of Storms AKA Viharsarok (2014) Ádám Császi, András Sütö, Ádám Varga, Sebastian Urzendowsky
Best friends Szabolcs and Bernard are playing in the same German football team. Read More »