János Koltai

Szomszédok

Szomszédok was a Hungarian television series, occasionally called the Hungarian Dallas, that ran from 1987–1999...

The Round-Up

After the failure of the Kossuth's revolution of 1848, people suspected of supporting the revolution are sent t...

My Way Home

In the aftermath of World War II, a Hungarian teenager, captured by Soviet troops, forms an unlikely bond with...

Hungarians

A group of landless Hungarian peasants accept work as migrant-laborers on a farm in northern Germany where the...

Cold Days

Andras Kovacs' film, considered one of the most important Hungarian films of the 1960s, centers around four men...

Sakk, Kempelen úr!

Agnus Dei

Allegory of the suppression of the 1919 revolution and the advent of fascism in Hungary; in the countryside, a...

Dead Landscape

This Hungarian film chronicles the slow deterioration in the life of Juli, a farmer's wife. As the countryside...

New Gilgames

The story recalling the spirit of Gilgamesh, the Sumerian king quarrelling with his approaching death, takes pl...

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...

Hungarian Passion

The film, taking place in 1950, presents the story of Father Leopold and the monks of his order struggling to o...

Silence and Cry

Set during a turbulent era of disquiet, fear, persecution and terror, which permeates every corner of post-WWI...

The Valley

Five deserters hide in a village inhabited only by women.

Judgement

The film is a historic parable about the topicality of revolution. 1514. The peasants' uprising is over, Dózsa...

A múmia közbeszól

The Myth-Makers

Eighteen years after the failure of the revolution and freedom fighting 1848-49, the politicians of Hungary pre...

The Sack

For the first time after 11 years, Simon, a young historian visits the village of his childhood at Balaton and...

Baptism

A 40-year-old sculptor returns home to witness the baptism of his young nephew. His return prompts a series of...

Tök az adu

A barber goes for a walk on an average Sunday morning, and end up winning an other guy's wife on card.

Late Season

Kerekes believes he is wanted by the police when his friends play a practical joke in this unusual comedy drama...

Cantata

A young doctor undergoes a spiritual crisis when he returns to his rural home.

No Love, Please

Nothing is as dangerous to a really good group of friends as a woman and love. At least according to Frank, the...

Ten Thousand Days

The changing and turbulent history of Hungary is seen through the eyes of three men over a 30-year period in th...

A Hungarian Nabob 2: Karpathy Zoltan

On the novel by Mór Jókai. The first half of the XVIII century. Several decades of life of a noble family Karpa...

Blindfold

The scene is Ukraine. In 1943, after the Hungarian' defeat at the river Don, soldier Balogh decides to visit hi...

Incident ​at Vichy

In the streets of Vichy, France, during World War II, the Germans apprehend nine men and a boy. Among them are...

Grotesque

Huszárik's graduation film was another short entitled Groteszk (Grotesque) in 1963 about a strange train voyage...

The Lost Paradise

​A young doctor named Zoltán flees Budapest for his father’s rural estate after performing an illegal abortion...

Randevú Budapesten

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