Lajos Balázsovits

the famous escapes

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

Private Vices, Public Virtues

The setting is a Central European kingdom, near the turn of the century. Bored by his very proper wife, the you...

Mary, Mother of Jesus

Mary, Mother of Jesus is a 1999 made-for-television Biblical film that retells the story of Jesus through the e...

Abigel

The story takes place during World War II. Vitay Georgina is enrolled by her father, General Vitay, in the comp...

The Prince and the Pauper

An adaptation of the classic, "The Prince and the Pauper" is the retelling of Edward Tudor and young Thomas Can...

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Hungarian Rhapsody

The movie portrays a peasant revolt in Hungary in the early twentieth century.

Electra, My Love

It has been fifteen years since the death of her father, Agamemnon, and Elektra still burns with hatred for Aeg...

Stephen, the King

István, a király ("Stephen, the King") is a Hungarian rock opera written by Levente Szörényi (music) and János...

Diary for My Father and My Mother

This story follows a young student, who is orphaned as she grows to adulthood in the shadow of the 1956 Hungari...

Abigél

The Upthrown Stone

An aspiring film student is denied a scholarship to the state-funded university when his father is thrown in ja...

Poor Johnny and Arnika

The poor but carefree vagabond Johnny meets the princess Árnika and they fall in love. An evil witch casts a sp...

Mother and Daughter

In a wealthy Italian home, the daughter of the family is trying to cut her mother's apron strings. Not only is...

So Much for Justice!

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

So Much for Justice!

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

Confidence

Janos and Kata are thrown together during the Second World War and forced to pose as husband and wife to hide f...

The Battle of Mohács

By the notes of Fiáth Pompeiusz, the one-time friend of Kapa and Pepe, Professor Szirtes has solved the secret...

The Confrontation

In post-WWII Hungary, a group of Communist college students arrive at a Catholic seminary hoping to engage in p...

Season of Monsters

Zoltai is a Hungarian professor who returns home after a visit to the United States. Following a television int...

Don’t Cry, Pretty Girls!

Savanyú and his friend work at a plant. After the monotonous shifts they engage in the pleasures of the afterno...

Milarepa

After a car accident, a professor, trapped and awaiting help, hears a student recount the life of Milarepa. The...

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...

A Very Moral Night

A brothel in a small Hungarian town becomes the home of a medical student after his favorite working girls find...

Red Psalm

Set in the 1890s on the Hungarian plains, a group of farm workers go on strike in which they face harsh reprisa...

Agnus Dei

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

Binding Sentiments

Edit, who became the wife of a politician out of a simple peasant girl, suddenly becomes a widow as a result of...

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...

A palacsintás király

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

Kaputt

Relay Race

This film is a documentaristic dispute about the possibilities of young people to assert themselves, to make a...

Ed's Eaten Elevenses

Jancsó’s farce, similar to the previous ones, is about our time and about death. Pepe marries into a family of...

Dead or Alive

1852. Gáspár Noszlopy escapes from prison in order to capture the emperor, who is to visit Hungary, with his co...

Pikemen

Allegro Barbaro

Zsadányi flees from the authorities with his goddaughter, Bankós Mari, and they escape into the forest. The fil...