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Tag Archives: Hungary
Lionheart (1987) Franklin J. Schaffner, Eric Stoltz, Gabriel Byrne, Nicola Cowper, Adventure, Drama
A young knight sets out to join King Richard’s crusaders. Along the way, he encounters The Black Prince who captures children and sells them as slaves to the Muslims. Read More »
Johanna (2005) Kornél Mundruczó, Orsolya Tóth, Eszter Wierdl, Zsolt Trill, Drama
Johanna, a young drug addict, falls into a deep coma after an accident. Doctors miraculously manage to save her from death’s doorstep. Read More »
Rokonok (2006) István Szabó, Sándor Csányi, Ildikó Tóth, Károly Eperjes
Young honest public official is sworn in after his predecessor had to leave due to a corruption scandal. Read More »
Beyond the Curve / Kanyaron túl (2002) András Dér, István Bubik, Denisa Dér, János Gyuriska, Drama
Szilvi deals in drugs and cannot decide between Tamas who offers her love in this world and the priest who offers her the chance of ethereal harmony.
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Atentat u Sarajevu / The Day That Shook the World (1975) Veljko Bulajic, Christopher Plummer, Florinda Bolkan, Maximilian Schell, Drama, History
Historical depiction of the events preceding the political murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, would-be emperor of the Austro-Hungarian throne, in Sarajevo, June 28, 1914. Read More »
Szindbád / Sinbad (1971) Zoltán Huszárik, Zoltán Latinovits, Éva Ruttkai, Eva Leelossy, Drama
An old man is recollecting all the women he met in his youth. An old woman wants them to commit suicide together but changes her mind. Read More »
Budapesti Tavasz (1955) Félix Máriássy, Gábor Rajnay, Miklós Gábor, Mária Mezei, Drama
The film begins a few days before the end of the Second World War and tells the story of the people of Budapest Read More »
Dúvad / The Brute (1961) Zoltán Fábri, Ferenc Bessenyei, Tibor Bitskey, Mária Medgyesi, Drama
This drama about a boorish non-conformist takes place in Hungary after the war and is dulled a little by political overtones but is still an engaging story. Read More »
Tízezer nap / Ten Thousand Days (1967) Ferenc Kósa, Tibor Molnár, Gyöngyi Bürös, János Koltai, Drama
The changing and turbulent history of Hungary is seen through the eyes of three men over a 30-year period in this somber drama. Read More »
Utolsó idök / Lost Times (2009) Áron Mátyássy, József Kádas, Teréz Vass, Eszter Földes, Drama
1997. Young car mechanic Iván lives in a godforsaken village in eastern Hungary. He looks after his mentally disabled sister Eszter and earns extra money smuggling diesel oil from Ukraine. Read More »
Chico (2001) Ibolya Fekete, Sasa Anocic, Gyula Bodrogi, András Fésös, War, Drama
The adventures of a young man as he moves from the Latin-American revolutions in the sixties and seventies, through Hungary in the eighties, to the Croatian war in 1991.
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Apaföld / Father’s Acre (2009) Viktor Oszkar Nagy, Tamás Ravasz, János Derzsi, Andrea Nagy, Drama
How a father returns to his son after a long period in prison. Anxious to be reconciled with his child – who reproaches him for his absence (the mother having died in the interim) – the father tries to teach him some values and buys a piece of land in order to plant a vine. Read More »
Another Way / Egymásra nézve (1982) Károly Makk, János Xantus, Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieslak, Ildikó Bánsági, Grazyna Szapolowska, Biography, Drama, History
Political and sexual repression in Hungary, just after the revolution of 1956. In 1958, the body of Eva Szalanczky, a political journalist, is discovered near the border. Her friend Livia is in hospital with a broken neck; Livia’s husband, Donci, is under arrest. In a flashback to the year before, we see what leads up to the tragedy. Eva gets a job as a writer. She meets Livia and is attracted to her. Livia feels much the same, but as a married woman, has doubts and hesitations. In their work, they (and Eva in particular) bang up against the limits of telling political truths; in private, they confront the limits of living out sexual and emotional truth.
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Szezon / Eastern Sugar (2004) Ferenc Török, Zsolt Nagy, Judit Rezes, Ervin Nagy, Comedy, Drama
Three young friends, from the Hungarian countryside, want more sex and excitement in their life. Together they undertake a journey to Lake Balaton, where they hope to find plenty of summer fun as well as a temporary job.
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