The film, depicting life in the tenement houses of Angyalföld in the thirties joins the neorealist currents of Hungarian film. Read More »
Tag Archives: Hungary
Dear Emma, Sweet Böbe (1992)
Shows Emma’s and Böbe’s fight for survival, for keeping their position in society which they achieved with hard work in the previous regime. Read More »
On the Move (1979) Útközben
Barbara is a young mother of two in Hungary whose everyday life is abruptly collapses when a friend in Poland dies. Read More »
We Never Die (1993) Sose halunk meg
Set in ’60s socialist Hungary, an introverted and somewhat inhibited teenage boy has a life-changing experience as he spends Read More »
Guerilla (2019) György Mór Kárpáti
In 1849, the liberation war against the Habsburg Empire is close to its end in Hungary. Read More »
On Body and Soul (2017) Teströl és lélekröl
Two introverted people find out by pure chance that they share the same dream every night. Read More »
Treasured Earth (1948) Talpalatnyi föld
In 1905 Hungary, a young village woman has just undergone a marriage to the spoiled son Read More »
The Gambler (1997) Károly Makk, Michael Gambon, Jodhi May, Polly Walker
Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Sir Michael Gambon) must write a novel in twenty-seven days Read More »
Slap-Jack (1991) Péter Tímár, Vera Pap, Sándor Gáspár, Károly Eperjes
The story takes place in 1989 in the suburbs of Budapest, where the neighbor maintains an underground Read More »
Den of Lions (2003) James Bruce, Stephen Dorff, Bob Hoskins, Laura Fraser
A Hungarian gypsy working for a Russian mobster becomes a double agent for the FBI. Read More »