
A large, claustrophobic apartment is the setting for this intense chamber drama. Read More »
Tag Archives: Hungary
Wagner (1983) Tony Palmer, Richard Burton

A huge panorama of Richard Wagner’s life and work, from before the 1848 revolution Read More »
The Midas Touch / Eldorádó (1988) Géza Bereményi, Károly Eperjes, Judit Pogány, Enikõ Eszenyi

The story takes place in the urban districts of Pest focusing on the marketplace Read More »
A Long Weekend in Pest and Buda / 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 »
Angi Vera (1979) Pál Gábor, Vera Pap, Erzsi Pásztor, Éva Szabó

In the story, a teenaged girl comes under the intense tutelage of the Communist Party in 1948 Read More »
Moscow Square / Moszkva tér (2001) Ferenc Török, Gábor Karalyos, Erzsi Pápai, Eszter Balla

1989 is an important year in the political history of Hungary. Read More »
Bolse vita (1996) Ibolya Fekete, Yuri Fomichev, Igor Chernevich, Aleksey Serebryakov

This acclaimed, multiple-award-winning film centers around a group of young people Read More »
Without Air / Elfogy a levego (2023) Katalin Moldovai, Ágnes Krasznahorkai, Tunde Skovran, Soma Sándor

When high-school literature teacher Ana Bauch innocently recommends Read More »
The Trap / Klopka (2007) Srdan Golubovic, Nebojsa Glogovac, Natasa Ninkovic, Anica Dobra

“THE TRAP” is a modern film noir reflecting the true face of Serbian (Eastern European) ‘society in transition.’ Read More »
The Duke of Burgundy (2014) Peter Strickland, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Monica Swinn, Chiara D’Anna

Day in and day out, lovers Cynthia and Evelyn enact an elaborate sadomasochistic fantasy Read More »
Twenty Hours / Húsz óra (1965) Zoltán Fábri, Antal Páger, János Görbe, Emil Keres

The reporter spends only twenty hours in the village. In his conversations, twenty years of history unfolds. Read More »
The Story of My Wife / A feleségem története (2021) Ildikó Enyedi, Léa Seydoux, Gijs Naber, Louis Garrel

Jacob Störr, a sea captain, makes a bet in a café with a friend, to marry Read More »
Forest / Rengeteg (2003) Benedek Fliegauf, Rita Braun

We see people in a shopping mall; one man deliberately leaves a backpack behind in the crowd Read More »
The Wednesday Child / Szerdai gyerek (2015) Lili Horvát, Kinga Vecsei, Zsolt Antal, Szabolcs Thuróczy

The Wednesday Child is a coming-of-age story – how can someone who grew up without a mother become one herself? Read More »
Winter Wind / Sirokkó (1969) Miklós Jancsó, Jacques Charrier, Marina Vlady, Ewa Swann

In the mid-1930s a group of Croatian anarchists cross the dense forests at the northern Read More »