Ferenc Bencze

the famous escapes

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

The Fifth Seal

In 1944 Budapest, one of a group of four friends poses a hypothetical moral question to the others, an act that...

The Bachelor

In pre-WWI Austria-Hungary, a physician struggles with his decision about which woman will he marry.

Forest of the Hanged

In 1916 as an officer in the Habsburg Army ethnic Romanian Apostol Bologa is torn between remaining loyal to th...

Macbeth

Consistent of only two long shots, three witches predict that Macbeth will ascend to the throne of Scotland. To...

Silent Joy

This film is a psychological study of a woman who chooses solitude as an escape from the duplicity and emotiona...

Unruly Heyducks

This film, set at the beginning of the 17th century, is the first East-European "Eastern". Bocskai István order...

The Actor and the Savages

At Bucharest’s famous revue theater “Vox,” director Costică Caratase prepares a bold anti-fascist show despite...

Dissident

Once upon a time there lived a young man who served where “enemy voices” were suppressed, wrote, and wanted to...

Két pisztolylövés

A Summer Tale

The rise and fall of the opportunistic Tănase Scatiu, a boyar in 19th century Wallachia.

Just Like at Home

On his return from America, András simply cannot find his place: he has lost his wife, friends and job, and he...

Volley for a Black Buffalo

During the years following World War II, a new boy arrives to class 7/c, and the audience learns to know the li...

The Mace with Three Seals

At the end of the 16th century, Wallachia's ruler Michael the Brave dreams of uniting the kingdoms of Wallachia...

The Trumpeter

In the late 17th century, Hungary moved from Turkish to Austrian domination, becoming a key part of the Austro-...

A Nice Neighbor

Hungarian-born Laszlo Szabo returned to his native country to play the part of Dibusz in this comedy. When the...

One Day More or Less

Baradla Géza, war criminal, returns after 25 years, with his ex-accomplice, Obrád Simon, to the village where h...

The Redhead

During the summer of 1944, while Romanians turn weapons against Nazis, Mihai, an orphan teenager whose parents...

K.O.

Chungi, the boxer eternal second in the domestic field. The only one ahead of him is his good friend Red, the O...

The Stone Wedding

Two bleak stories about absent love. In the first, a widow is working hard in a desperate attempt to save her d...

Koportos

A Roma laborer living in a shantytown strives to organize a traditional, dignified funeral for his wife followi...

The Revolt of Job

The story of a childless Jewish couple in WWII-era Hungary who adopt a Hungarian boy and raise him with their v...

Through the Ashes of the Empire

A war story. survivors. refugees. few essential meetings. and great actors. a film inspired from Zaharia Stancu...

Outbreak

The main character of this film reminiscent of political writing is Laci, the young and ambitious factory worke...

The Snowstorm

The struggle to convince the peasants to join the collective farm in Romania 60s.

Ember és árnyék

Aelita

A mysterious radio message is beamed around the world, and among the engineers who receive it are Los, the hero...

A Place under the Sun

This rhapsodic, grotesque and realistic film describes one and a half days of Gyula.

Az utolsó tánctanár

Géza Böszörményi's 1975 German-Hungarian co-production film stars János Balogh as a dance and etiquette teacher...

Two Men for One Death

The story of a love triangle, in which a romanian and a hungarian love the same woman. Happening during WWII, t...

A nagyenyedi két fűzfa

On the road between Enyed and Felvinc, on the bank of a stream, stand two huge willow trees. They are a histori...

Baleset

Peter and Paul

The subject-matter of this comedy is age-old: that of the schizophrenic soul. Papa would have liked boy twins y...

Seven Days

This movie presents 7 days of a secret agent's life. Unlike most other movies that glamorize secret agents, thi...

The Castellans

Two cooperativists exploit a pond for fish and frogs outside their institutions circuit. Until a youth with soc...

A közös kutya

“I need a dog!" says Gabi, the main character in the film, to her parents. Every child has either a dog or a br...