Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Sir Michael Gambon) must write a novel in twenty-seven days Read More »
Tag Archives: Károly Makk
The House Under the Rocks (1958) Károly Makk
Haz a Szikiak Alatt (The House Under the Rocks) is considered by many to be Hungarian director Karoly Makk’s masterpiece. 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 »
Lily Boy / Liliomfi (1955) Károly Makk, Iván Darvas, Marianne Krencsey, Margit Dajka
In the 19th century story, Liliomfi, the talented travelling comedian and Mariska Read More »
Cat’s Play / Macskajáték (1974) Károly Makk, Margit Dajka, Ildikó Piros, Elma Bulla
Karoly Makk’s heartbreaking story of two unmarried sisters who cast wistful glances back at their lives Read More »
Deadly Game (1982) Károly Makk, Helmut Berger
A hunting party arrives at a lodge in the Tatra mountains in Slovakia Read More »
A Very Moral Night (1977) Károly Makk, Margit Makay, Irén Psota, Carla Romanelli
Most of the film takes place in a brothel run by the madame (Iren Psota). Read More »
Hungarian Requiem (1990) Károly Makk, György Cserhalmi, Károly Eperjes, Hans Christian Blech
In 1956, there was an uprising of Hungarians against their Russian overlords, which the Russians briefly allowed to flower and then ruthlessly suppressed. 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.
Read More »