István Egri

The Black City

Hungarian mini-series.

The Sea has Risen

March 15, 1848; the revolution breaks out in the town of Pest. Yet at café Pilvax, in among he revolutionary yo...

Isten óvd a királyt

Abyss

Nagy István, the formerly poor peasant boy returns to his native village as a teacher. His conviction is that t...

Aranyborjú

In modern Hungary, con artist Bender Oszkár and his motley crew - Barangó and a band of small-time schemers - e...

The Borrowed Castle

Among the Gruber family, the rumor spreads like wildfire that their wealthy American relative, Menyhért Gruber,...

Dollar Daddy

A heavily indebted schoolteacher raising two marriageable daughters is buoyed by rumors that his long-lost uncl...

Tüzkeresztség

This propaganda film from the early years of socialist transformation in Hungary depicts kulak sabotage in prod...

On Home Grounds

This ironic comedy is set in the god-forsaken Kiskúnbékás, at the end of the fifties. There are no jobs, the to...

The Black City

Feature film version of the 1971 series. On the eve of the 18th century, County Vicecomes Görgey Pál broods alo...

The Smugglers

In the thirties, the poor living by the Romanian-Hungarian border were forced to smuggle if they wanted to surv...

Honour and Glory

Lugosi works in the locomotive factory, earning little. He does not feel at ease in the world. One reason for h...

Az utolsó budai basa

Sweet Stepmother

The child's must have a mother! - This is the doctor's instructions, and a young widow will do everything so th...

My Daughter Is Different

Gitta is 20 years old, a girl with modern attitudes, who is courted by Ferenc Fekete. Not particularly liked by...

Othello in the Province

An ambitious theatre director arrives in Gyulaháza from the capital. The aim of the young Debrődy is to shake u...

The Money-Maker

This film comedy takes place in the good old times of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy at the turn of the century....

The Storm

Vörös Hajnal (Red Dawn), a co-operative is the venue of skylarking, while the storm destroys the wheat which is...

Fatia Negra

The old, sickly Demeter Lapussa is a tyrant in the family. He forces his granddaughter, the beautiful Henriette...

Liberated Land

Jóska has become a Communist in the Csillag prison in Szeged. In the meantime, Gábor successfully talks people...

A Quiet Home

The composer Berki András, in his co-tenancy noisy with the barking of dogs and the hullabaloo of children, is...

The Soil Under Your Feet

In 1905 Hungary, a young village woman has just undergone a marriage to the spoiled son of a man to whom her fa...

St. Peter's Umbrella

A comedy about a lost inheritance, love and a red umbrella, which, according to a local legend, belonged to St....

Rákóczi's Lieutenant

1708 János Bornemissza became the master of stras of Blind Bottyán from a raiding Kuruk. His weapon is driven b...

Vidám elefántkór

Knight of the TV-screen

This mocking criticism of public life and the media focuses on a TV series. The protagonist of the film, depict...

Green Walnut

The TV film based on the novel by Boris Palotai is the story of a teenage girl's coming of age.

Sweet and Bitter

At the beginning of the thirties the sour, boring life of the Hungarian small town is enlivened by a charity ac...

Yellow Colt

A 1936 Hungarian drama film, directed by Béla Pásztor and starring Gyula Csortos, Ferenc Kiss, and Júlia Komár.

Spiral Staircase

The film is an interpretation of everyday life and privacy as well as the first love-triangle story after 1945....