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Tag Archives: Hungary
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 »