László Gálffi

Rise of the Raven

The story of János Hunyadi is the epic tale of a hero born into modest circumstances, who, in 1456, with relent...

Sunshine

The fate of a Hungarian Jewish family throughout the 20th century.

Wagner

A huge panorama of Wagner's life and work, from before the 1848 Revolution, through his exile in Switzerland, h...

White God

13 year old Lili fights to protect her dog Hagen, and is devastated when her father sets Hagen free on the stre...

Colonel Redl

Set during the fading glory of the Austro-Hungarian empire, the film tells of the rise and fall of Alfred Redl,...

Semmelweis

Set in 19th century Vienna, Ignac Semmelweis, a short-tempered but passionate doctor, delivers babies and carri...

Liszt Ferenc

Passion

A woman and her lover plot to kill her older husband.

Gone Running

After the death of her husband, a mother decides to fulfill his last wish and runs the marathon in relays with...

The Tyrant's Heart, or Boccaccio in Hungary

A historical drama set in the 1400s, a young man sent to Italy but is forced back after his father's mysterious...

Abandoned

Áron is a happy child in his family. But at some point things take a different turn, and his mother starts to l...

So Much for Justice!

Concerning the Mátyás era in Hungarian history, during the reign of Matthias Corvinus (1443–1490), the film foc...

Philemon és Baucis

50 min. TV movie directed by Károly Makk, based on a short story by Tibor Déry (director-writer team of the 197...

6:3, Play It Again Tutti

The makers, especially Péter Tímár wanted to invoke the atmosphere of the communist dictatorship of Rákosi era...

Requiem

When a young boy comes in to see a doctor abourt a red mark on his face, the doctor's wife welcomes him into th...

Men in the Nude

A gay affair between an aging middle-aged writer, and a young streetwise hustler.

Bitches

Enikős and Dorkas marriage is unbearable. Hysterical, cruel and humiliating scenes are enacted in front of the...

A Bus Came…

"A bus came..." consists of five loosely connected sketch films; the only thing that connects them is that each...

Where Were You, My Son?

Set in a large apartment in Hungary during the death throes of communism, obedient Andor lives with his eccentr...

The Last Boat

The last ship (Utolsó hajó) is leaving the quay. Sirens are sounding.

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...

The Miraculous Mandarin

A modernized version of the famous ballet work by Bela Bartok

Hamlet, dán királyfi

A TV film version of Shakespeare's drama.

Így írtok ti

Karinthy's best-known and most popular work to date is So You Write. It was this work that made him famous, and...

Levelek a zárdából

The film is based on two short stories by Margit Kaffka. Letters from the Convent is about faith in God, the to...

The Kangaroo

Istvan Varju a.k.a. Kanya is a track driver. He drives alone on the roads and listens to the radio. We're In th...

Saroküzlet

Afterlife

A heavily neurotic young man starts to see his father's ghost, and while he helps the spirit cross to the other...

Imagine

After losing his wife, the aged organist uses music to process the grief.

Cseresznyéskert

White Nights

A young man lives his life daydreaming about Dostoevsky's White Nights and the Visconti film.

Vigilantes

A group of seven friends of different ages and interests meet regularly at Eva's. They have coffee, talk and li...

Why not Speak of Love?

One morning, the caretaker of the student hostel of the University of Horticulture finds Citrom Flóra and Bohus...

Yellow Poppies

The story takes place in the Stalinist camps of the 1930s, where the main character, Gleb Nesterov, is trying t...