János Rajz

The Magic Jacket

The poor little Ferkó is trying to enrich his miserable life with imaginary fairy tale figures and superstitiou...

Frakk, a macskák réme

Age of Illusions

Jancsi is part of a closely knit gang of young engineers. They see the older engineers as mediocre, and have gr...

Lily Boy

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

The Black City

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

Mocorgó

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

Sons of the Stone-Hearted Man

Based on the novel of Mór Jókai. During the Hungarian independence war 1848-49 mother and her three sons trying...

Három csillag

The film consists of 3 novellas. 1. On the eve of the Soviet advance into Hungary, workers at a military plant...

New Gilgames

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

I'll Appeal to the Minister

A comedy about the organisation of agricultural co-operatives. In the village of "Rendes", everybody has alread...

Sleepless Years

The "sleepless years" in this propaganda piece by director Felix Marlassy occur on Csepel Island, an island sou...

A palacsintás király

King Tobiah, the ruler of the country of Dinom-danom, announces a pancake-making competition for the girls of t...

Dollar Daddy

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

The Naked Diplomat

Félix, a somewhat clod-hopping young man, finds himself in the Grand Hotel of Little Lagonda, barefooted and in...

The Toth Family

The Toth family resides in Northern Hungary. The couple has a daughter and a son, the latter a member of the ar...

Story of My Foolishness

The celebrated actor considers his wife a nitwits actress of a mediocre talent. But an influential playwright,...

Yesterday

October, 1956. Colonel lieutenant Szabó sends a platoon with the mission of calming the people demonstrating in...

Two Confessions

This easy-to-take Hungarian drama is also known as Two Wishes. The prinicipal characters are a pair of juvenile...

A Lad on White Horse

"Don't give up your dream" - this is how Demjén Ferenc's song goes and Gyuri darts along the endless fields on...

Springtime in Budapest

At Christmas Eve in 1944 the runaway Pintér and Gozsó get through the Soviet blockade around Budapest. Pintér i...

Iron Flower

During the worldwide Depression of the 1930s, a young shopgirl is in love with a man of her own financial class...

Hit and Run

Judge Csanádi András makes a confession to his boss one night: he fell in love with the pretty, modern driver w...

The bridge of life

The war is over, but the Bodog family is starving. Varg's neighbor takes Mihai Bodog with him to do restoration...

That Lovely Green Grass

Misu is spending his summer holiday in an old block of flats in Budapest. The caretaker of the house, Poldi, a...

St. Peter's Umbrella

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

Our Kid

Kölyök, this lovely, ham-handed young woman, has caused many a trouble already in the Dunaújváros Iron Works. F...

12 is a dozen

Three short stories around the number 12. A postman, a taxi driver and a photo developer connected to 12 on dif...

Guns and Doves

1920 in a mining town in the country-side. The team of children led by Ferkó Boda fish guns and a flag of Red s...

Lady-Killer in Trouble

Captain Kovács investigates the case of a taxi driver who was knocked down and later he disappeared without lea...

Pesti erkölcsök

Ferenc Molnár's cartoons, published in various newspapers in the 1920s and 1930s, were not originally intended...

The Last Adventure of Don Juan

Don Juan, the seducer, is cursed by the governor of Seville: he can only live until a woman rejects him. Thanks...

A Strictly Private Affair

The young engineer and the pretty economist of a commercial company, on assignment in the country together, aft...

Pár lépés a határ

Based on the novel of the same name by Lajos Meszterházy about the escape from prison of two communists sentenc...

Georges Dandin

György Dandin, the rich bourgeois concludes a marriage contract with the noblemen Lükeházy couple who has turne...

Leila and Gábor

Buda is mastered by the Turks. Student Gábor and his companion flee a troop into the castle, just in the garden...

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...