Sándor Szakácsi

Sunshine

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

Pocok, az ördögmotoros

Pocok is a seventh grader and the youngest member of his brother's gang. The gang of teenagers wants to buy a m...

Hungarian Requiem

1958. In the cell of the condemned, seven men await the signs of an approaching execution. All of them recall t...

Sobri, ponyvafilm

Stephen, the King

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

Ki lesz a bálanya

Adapted from István Csurka's play of the same name. Four men often get together in the evenings to play poker,...

On the Move

Barbara is a forty-year-old woman of Polish origin living in Budapest. She is a biologist, a wife and a mother....

Lost Illusions

Via the New York Times: "The Hungarian director Gyula Gazdag has transposed the middle section of Balzac's "Los...

Death in Shallow Water

1991, farewell in Budapest. Mária remembers the past in tears. Her husband, Tibor, a chemist and a target of th...

A Nice Neighbor

Hungarian-born Laszlo Szabo returned to his native country to play the part of Dibusz in this comedy. When the...

The Last Judgement But One

The relationship of István Kozár and his wife has reached the point where neither is prepared to hear even a si...

Yerma

Inspired by García Lorca's stage poem, this is the story of a young woman who cannot realize her desire for sel...

Erdély Aranykora

Peer Gynt

Adapted for Hungarian TV. Dreamy Peer Gynt lives in a small Norwegian village high up in the mountains with his...

Montecarlo!

The suburban school is totally bankrupt. When all hope collapses, Makkosi, a teacher resigned to the disappoint...

Midnight Rehearsal

A country theatre wants to stage the historical play of the opposition author, who is famous abroad but it is w...

The Prosecution

The Christmas of 1944. The Pásztor family (father, mother, four daughters and a grandchild), are spending the h...

Roots

Documentary screenplay, based on letters and writings of the composer Béla Bartók. Musical works composed throu...

Edith and Marlene

The lifelong friendship of Edith Piaf and Marlene Dietrich.

Az attasé lánya

A "fusspot" material handler begins courting the daughter of a supposed "attaché". This leads to complications,...