Piri Peéry

Merry-Go-Round

In a rural scenery in the throes of difficult changes lives a humble but promising young farmer girl called Mar...

Springtime in Budapest

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

Sleepless Years

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

Szent Péter esernyője

Veronika, the niece of the parish priest of Glogova, came to the priesthood because of the death of her mother....

Don't Keep Off the Grass

Daddy Kárász, the stakhanovist worker, complains in a television interview about the fact that his family, cons...

The Storm

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

John, the Hero

1938 screen adaptation of the 1904 musical version of the classic Hungarian fairy tale poem by Sándor Petőfi ab...

The Five-Forty

Set in Paris (which looks more like Budapest), the story concerns a murder investigation conducted by one Judge...

The New Landlord

Az Uj Foldesur (The New Squire) was based on a novel by popular Hungarian author Maurice Jokal, whose many work...

St. Peter's Umbrella

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

Iron Flower

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

A Bowl of Lentils

Pénz beszél

The wealthy Ottó Dárday is angry with his heirless relatives and marries his maid Julcsa. Only six months after...

Dani

Dani, the few-month-old little boy born outside marriage is left by Eszter in the lap of her companion on the t...

Battle in Peace

András Beke, a tractor driver, enlists as a conscript, but he does not want to accept the army's rules and regu...

A nagymama

Ernő, under a pseudonym, takes up a position as a music teacher at a girls' school under the patronage of his g...

Sentenced to Life

In an outbreak of a rightful anger, Péter Keresztessy kills Ágota, his deceased wife's cousin, who, in an attem...