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Tag Archives: Hungary
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 »
Sátántangó / 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 »
Hanussen (1988) István Szabó, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Erland Josephson, Ildikó Bánsági
A man’s story parallels Hitler’s rise. Austrian Klaus Schneider, wounded in World War I, recovers in the care of Dr. Emil Bettleheim. Read More »
Bibliothèque Pascal (2010) Szabolcs Hajdu, Orsolya Török-Illyés, Oana Pellea, Razvan Vasilescu
In order to regain custody of her daughter, whom she left in the care of her fortune-telling aunt, Mona must tell a social worker her story. Read More »