Zoltán Latinovits

the famous escapes

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

The Fifth Seal

In 1944 Budapest, one of a group of four friends poses a hypothetical moral question to the others, an act that...

The Round-Up

After the failure of the Kossuth's revolution of 1848, people suspected of supporting the revolution are sent t...

American Torso

In the final days of the American Civil War, an emigre Hungarian military officer attempts to map the situation...

Silence and Cry

Set during a turbulent era of disquiet, fear, persecution and terror, which permeates every corner of post-WWI...

Mocorgó

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

Kaputt

Cold Days

Andras Kovacs' film, considered one of the most important Hungarian films of the 1960s, centers around four men...

The Lost Generation

The engineer Ambrus has been suspended in his job because he publicly called the attention of the customers to...

The Golden Kite

The film is put at the beginning of the century in Sárszeg, following the humiliation and collapse of a high-sc...

141 Minutes from the Unfinished Sentence

This lavishly spectacular film focuses on the character of Lőrinc Parcen Nagy from the 1200-page Tibor Déry nov...

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...

A House of Cards

Barta has been investigating for a year in the murder case of a professor of medicine. Keller, the victim, has...

Sinbad

Based on the stories of Hungarian writer Gyula Krúdy, this film is a lush and sensuous depiction of the life, l...

Light behind the Shutter

Torday Géza, a new engineer arrives at the ammunition factory disguised as if manufacturing camping gears. His...

Skylark

Based on a novel by Dezso Kosztolani, this Hungarian drama is set at the turn of the 20th century. A young, hom...

The Pendragon Legend

Bátky János a 20th century intellectual studies the secret of the Rosicrucians in London libraries during the d...

A Journey Around My Skull

The film is a story of a double journey. The main character of the first journey is the author himself, who, wh...

And Then The Guy...

In this caricature-like film an old film director offers his memories of his career to his former student, now...

Collision

Terpinkó, the bragging man of muscle likes womanising linked with betting: conquering is a great fun for him. H...

Gypsy Princess

Kálmán Imre's beloved operetta comes to the screen in this comedy of music, marriage and class set in Budapest...

On Home Grounds

This ironic comedy is set in the god-forsaken Kiskúnbékás, at the end of the fifties. There are no jobs, the to...

The Heir

Drapp Tamás, metro-driver inherits an American salami-factory worth a hundred thousand dollars from an unknown...

Summer of Old Times

The story unfolds using the Lajtai operetta The Old Summer. The son of landowner János Pataki comes from Sweden...

The Man of Gold

Adaptation of Mór Jókai's classic 19th century novel on Mihály Tímár, the captain of a commercial Danube ship i...

Face to Face

The members of a rifle-corps unit gather in a village by the western border

There Was Once a Family

This film describes the narrator's childhood, the years before and after the Hungarian Soviet Republic, in a bu...

Abhorrence

Nelli, the icy, introverted farm girl, needs to find a husband following her father's death. She accepts the at...

Cantata

A young doctor undergoes a spiritual crisis when he returns to his rural home.

The Master Criminal

Lohmann's son is kidnapped. The un-known kidnappers get a thirty-thousand-jewel from the West German millionair...

Richard III

Having helped his brother King Edward IV take the throne of England, the jealous hunchback Richard, Duke of Glo...

Boys From the Square

The story takes place during World War II and presents the illegal movement from inside. Some tough guys from t...

A Hungarian Nabob

On the novel by Mór Jókai. The first half of the XVIII century. Several decades of life of a noble family Karpa...

A Cozy Cottage

He travels the country as a fire inspector. He arrives in the small town for a week-long visit, where he meets...

A Hungarian Nabob 2: Karpathy Zoltan

On the novel by Mór Jókai. The first half of the XVIII century. Several decades of life of a noble family Karpa...

Fallow Land

The story of the film with a touch of journalistic atmosphere takes place in the autumn 1919 after the fall of...