Dezső Garas

the famous escapes

From Bonaparte to Casanova, history is cast in the light of famous escapes from various European countries.

Perlasca: The Courage of a Just Man

The true story of Giorgio Perlasca, an Italian cattle dealer and avowed fascist who — trapped in Nazi-occupied...

Abigel

The story takes place during World War II. Vitay Georgina is enrolled by her father, General Vitay, in the comp...

Hajónapló

Daughter of Darkness

An atmospheric, sub-hallucinogenic venture into the world of the unknown. The enigma facing a young woman is th...

Jacob the Liar

A Jewish ghetto in the east of Europe, 1944. By coincidence, Jakob Heym eavesdrops on a German radio broadcast...

The Bridgeman

This epic story takes place between 1820 and 1860 during the Habsburg Monarchy, and portrays the life one of th...

Whooping Cough

The story of 10-year-old boy and his family against the backdrop of the bloody events of 1956, in Budapest. Chi...

Abigél

Miss Arizona

Story of the owners (Mastroianni and Schygulla) of a fancy nightclub in Budapest before and during WWII.

Just a Movie

Péter tries to make a film on "Swan-Lake". At the weekend, shooting stops and the staff goes home. Péter leaves...

A Strange Role

After the breakup of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, a young Hungarian, wanted by the police for political crimes,...

Storm and Sorrow

In 1974, mountain climber Molly Higgins (Lori Singer) begins her ascent of Lenin Peak, located in the Pamir Mou...

Mocorgó

Mocorgó, the well-meaning worker boy, is a tough guy. In his 40s he is still a mechanic's apprentice, but he is...

Automärchen

This quirky episodic comedy weaves together three plotlines centered around the employees of a car garage, with...

Lily Boy

Set in the "Golden Era" of the wandering Hungarian theatre troupes. Mariska and Liliomfi fall in love without s...

Forward!

The story setup in the late Communist era. Two school boys are best friends. One's Father is a mighty communist...

Lúdláb királynő

In 18th-century Paris, Jerome Coignard, an abbé who enters a Parisian soup kitchen called the Queen of Goosefoo...

Két pisztolylövés

Tale on the 12 Points

The flat of Doctor Bartha is wetting, the Communal Management Enterprise does not act, the doctor and his wife...

Csalással nem!

Grün Lili's parents have been collecting the dowry for years and now, with the help of a matchmaker, they have...

The Phantom on Horseback

News spreads like wildfire through the streets of Lubló: the ghost of recently deceased Mihály Kaszperek has be...

Two Half-Times in Hell

To celebrate Hitler's birthday, a soccer match is organised between the Germans and a group of Hungarian politi...

Just For Kicks

The life of Tamás, antiquities dealer, runs in a normal, everyday way, he is stealing, swindling, cheating on h...

A Bird of Heaven

Panni, coming from a landless family of ten and Miska have loved each other for a long time. The pretty Panni,...

The Football Star

Cabinet crisis threatens in Futbólia, due to a series of lost matches. The head of state charges admiral Duca w...

Well, Young Man?

Andris is almost an adolescent boy. He would need the trust and encouragement of his family. But his father is...

My Father's Happy Years

Director Sandor Simo based this film on his recollections of a period in his father's life just after World War...

The Long Shadow

Upon his father's death, a Hungarian stage actor travels to Israel for the funeral and meets his stepmother for...

Anton the Magician

A flamboyant comedy about love, work and money—revealing that the "planned" economy produced some unconventiona...

A Long Weekend in Pest and Buda

Iván is living in exile from Hungary when he receives word that an old flame is ill. His return to Budapest rek...

Football of the Good Old Days

The film is set in Budapest, 1924. Laundryman Ede Minarik's only passion is football. His dream is to see his t...

Banana Skin Waltz

A typist girl who is under the influence of nervous breakdown walks out to the street stark naked from the offi...

No

The turnings of this satirical story are accentuated by the comments of the Director and the Author. Éva is in...

Raid

1932, Budapest. Gere János, an unemployed worker searching for employment in the capital, is organised into the...

Kaputt