Hungarian Film Odyssey
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- DirectorZoltán HuszárikStarsZoltán LatinovitsÉva RuttkaiÉva LeelössyAn old man is recollecting all the women he met in his youth. An old woman wants them to commit suicide together but changes her mind. The little town has a doctor whose wife can not forget the old man, and the waiter who serves him his dinner doesn't know that Sinbad will soon court her.One of my most favorite Hungarian film.
- DirectorMichael CurtizStarsOscar Beregi Sr.József KürthyLucy DoraineThe family waits for the returning brother. The young revolutionary emerges from behind the brow of the hill holding a fluttering flag. The enemies fight a bloody battle. The hero and his battalion suffers defeat. The young fighter is imprisoned, but the slogan "Proletars of the world, unite!" makes him escape. He raises a new army around the preserved flag. News are read out back home when the young brother comes home. The two brothers embrace each other. A revolutionary mob proceeds on the street.
- DirectorSteve SekelyStarsGyula CsortosGyula KabosMici HarasztiA butler changes the life of a nouveau-riche entrepreneur's life, while his daughter falls in love with the company's manager instead of a suitor chosen for her.
- DirectorPál FejösStarsAnnabellaIlona DajbukátSteven GerayIt tells the story of Mari, an austerely beautiful young peasant girl played by the French star, Annabella. Mari is seduced beneath a flowering tree by the admirer of one of the daughters of the prosperous family for whom she works, becomes pregnant and is cast out.
- DirectorGeorge HoelleringStarsJános CinegeFrau CinegeIstván KányásiEssentially a documentary about the lives of the Hungarian Hortobagy plains horsemen and peasants, with a slight fictional storyline to hang it all on. The coming of 'machines' threatens the way of life of these peoples, and most of them want no contact with tractors or even bicycles. But not everyone agrees.
- DirectorLászló KalmárStarsPál JávorKatalin KarádyÉva SzörényiThis adaptation of Lajos Zilahy's novel about a fatal love triangle was the first film of Katalin Karády who became a star overnight.
- DirectorIstván SzötsStarsAlice SzellayJános GörbePéterke FerencyA woodcutter moves his wife and son onto a mountain for an attempt at a better life but tragedy soon sets in.
- DirectorGéza von RadványiStarsArtúr SomlayMiklós GáborZsuzsa BánkiA band of runaways and orphans of the war scour the countryside in search of food and shelter. They invade and then taken in by a musician and former concert pianist who's hiding out in a ruined castle. After the initial altercation between them the gang accepts his guidance and he wins their respect by protecting them from the elements. However, disgruntled townsfolk want to chase away the gang who has been - in their search for survival - laying waste to their crops. A battle ensues ending in the death of a little boy - and resolution.
- DirectorFrigyes BánStarsÁgi MészárosÁdám SzirtesViola OrbánA young peasant girl wants to marry her love, but due to the pressure of her parents she ends up with a wealthier man. Their real hardships begin when they escape together from her wedding.
- DirectorKároly MakkStarsIván DarvasMarianne KrencseyMargit DajkaMariska and Liliomfi fall in love without suspecting that Mariska's foster father is also Liliomfi's uncle. Soon the couple must contend with the professor's plan to make Liliomfi give up his "unrespectable" profession of acting.
- DirectorZoltán FábriStarsMari TörőcsikImre SoósÁdám SzirtesIn a rural scenery in the throes of difficult changes lives a humble but promising young farmer girl called Mari Pataki. Her father forbids her from seeing the man she loves. The father, above all preoccupied by work on the fields and prospective wealth, decides to give his daughter in marriage to an old but rich man with whom he does business. Land marries land, he says. This seems to be the unyielding rule of the Hungarian peasantry. But the young lover is ready to stand up to any challenge to keep Maris love.
- DirectorZoltán FábriStarsErnö SzabóNoémi AporEmmi ButtykayWhen a Latin teacher publishes an essay on the Carthaginian General Hannibal, he is quickly hailed as a celebrity genius, but in reality has become an unwitting pawn of far-right politicians.
- DirectorImre FehérStarsIván DarvasMargit BaraSándor Pécsi1914 in a small Hungarian town. The journalist Sándor has a love affair with a girl but ruins it when he won't marry below his own ranks.
- DirectorZoltán FábriStarsMari TörőcsikMária MezeiKároly KovácsYoung maid Anna starts to work for the noble Vizy family. Mrs Vizy is proud of the hardworking servant but doesn't treat her well. Her nephew seduces Anna with sweet words, but leaves her as soon as she gets pregnant. The humiliations of Anna finally lead to a tragic ending.
- DirectorKároly MakkGyörgy HintschStarsJános GörbeIrén PsotaMargit BaraA returned prisoner of war, his pretty new wife and his first wife's hunchbacked sister live together in a small isolated house, but none of them can find happiness.
- DirectorZoltán FábriStarsFerenc BessenyeiTibor BitskeyMária MedgyesiThe setting is the countryside, where an independent, landowning farmer busies himself in his free time by bedding down the women on his farm and then tossing them aside. One such ill-treated lass ends up marrying a young man who is in charge of a communal farm, a farm the womanizing "beast" of the title is later forced to join. The arrogant, formerly independent farmer does not reform his ways and is soon chasing after the young manager's wife, the woman he dropped not that long ago.
- DirectorZoltán FábriStarsImre SinkovitsDezsö GarasLászló MárkusOn Hitler's birthday, the Germans decide to organize a soccer match between prisoners of war and Germans.
- DirectorMiklós JancsóStarsZoltán LatinovitsAndor AjtayBéla BarsiA young doctor undergoes a spiritual crisis when he returns to his rural home.
- DirectorIstván SzabóStarsAndrás BálintIlona BéresJudit HalászJancsi Oláh is in the transitional phase between adolescence and adultness. He is born in 1938, and is now getting his first employment as an electronic engineer. On some TV-screens he happens to see a young lawyer, Éva Halk, who arrests his attention. In his imagination she is the most interesting woman he ever saw. Jansci is part of a closely knit gang of young engineers. They see the older engineers as mediocre, and have grand ideas about developing new inventions together. With changing living conditions the five friends start to grow apart. At a party Jancsi suddenly meets Éva Halk. They fall in love, and find common memories in the engagement in The Pioneer Railway at the age of 12. Both of them also chose to stay in Hungary in '56, when many of their friends fled the country. The sudden death of the gang member Laci in leukemia is a hard blow for them all. The fear of death grabs Éva and Jancsi. They start seeing each other as obstacles to their own development, and drift apart.
- DirectorMiklós JancsóStarsAndrás KozákSergey NikonenkoBéla BarsiIn the final days of WWII, a seventeen-year-old boy wanders the countryside. He is captured by Soviet troops, then released, then captured once more - after he has donned a German uniform for warmth - and imprisoned at a remote barracks, where he strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Russian soldier. His attempts to return home form the crux of this wonderfully lyrical film, which displays all of the director's consistent themes: the psychological presence of landscape, the randomness of violence, the arbitrary nature of power.
- DirectorMárton KeletiStarsTamás MajorImre SinkovitsIván DarvasDuring World War II, PFC Molnár decides his military service is over, and with a serious amount of money hidden in hand grenades, he heads to an abandoned mansion where he encounters not only the sour butler but a bunch of others who are also trying to wimp out on their duties.
- DirectorZoltán HuszárikFrom time immemorial, man has enjoyed the horse in all manners, as an art object, a speed racer, a cart-puller, and in circus acts. Cars are taking the horses' place in transportation, and horses are being slaughtered for meat. Will men hear the whinnying of the horses again?
- DirectorAndrás KovácsStarsZoltán LatinovitsIván DarvasTibor SzilágyiSet in 1946, this movie deals with the planning and execution of the January, 1942 Novi Sad massacre of 4,000 Yugoslavian Serbs and Jews by Hungarian army units. It was undertaken as a reprisal for a partisan ambush (in which 17 soldiers were gunned down). And it is mainly explored through the reminiscences of four participants--Major Buky, Lieutenant Tarpataki, Ensign Pozdor, and Corporal Szabonow--cell-mates awaiting trial. Ultimately, however, what you get is an extended debate over issues of individual responsibility.
- DirectorIstván SzabóStarsAndrás BálintMiklós GáborDániel ErdélyA boy in Budapest loses his father in 1945, when he was the age of six. He does not remember much of the father but fantasizes that he performed various heroic feats.
- DirectorMiklós JancsóStarsJános GörbeZoltán LatinovitsTibor MolnárIn Hungary, the national movement led by Kossuth has been crushed and the Austrian hegemony re-established, but partisans carry on with violent actions. In order to root out the guerilla, the army rounds up suspects and jails them in an isolated fort. The authorities do not have the identity of the guerilla leaders, who are supposed to be present among the prisoners. However, they know enough about some of the suspects to apply perfidious forms of coercion effectively.
- DirectorMiklós JancsóStarsKrystyna MikolajewskaMikhail KozakovTatyana KonyukhovaDuring the Russian Civil War, the Red Army - aided by Hungarian Communists - and the White Army fight for control of the area surrounding the Volga.
- DirectorMárta MészárosStarsKati KovácsTeri HorváthÁdám SzirtesOn receiving a letter from her mother, a quiet working-class girl leaves the state orphanage in Budapest where she grew up and takes a trip to the rural countryside to visit her.
- DirectorJudit ElekStarsManyi KissÉva AlmásiLászló BathóMerry hell breaks lose when half of Budapest invades the apartment of a lonely, old fashioned elderly lady who has decided to move.
- DirectorZoltán VárkonyiStarsIstván KovácsVera VenczelImre Sinkovits1552, the great Turkish Empire wants to conquer Europe, and the world. The last stand is Hungarian Kingdom, and the castle of Eger. The brave soldiers decides they will fight till the end of their lives.
- DirectorZoltán FábriStarsZoltán LatinovitsImre SinkovitsMárta FónayThe Tót family resides in Northern Hungary. The couple has a daughter and a son, the latter a member of the armed forces. When his weary major is ordered to take a vacation, the son talks him into a visit to his family home. Comedy endues when the Tót's go overboard trying to make things pleasant for the visiting major in hopes of an easier life for their son the soldier.
- DirectorSándor SáraStarsLajos BalázsovitsNadesda KazassianTodor TodorovAn aspiring film student is denied a scholarship to the state-funded university when his father is thrown in jail. The man had stopped a train in order to facilitate the union between two old friends. The son then takes a job as a land surveyor and meets a Greek man who works towards the collective benefits of the peasants. The man is killed in a peasant uprising prompted by a bureaucratic boondoggle. The surveyor looks after the man's widow as his emerging political and social awareness leads him take a stand against government injustice. Another incident, in which gypsies are rounded up by state hygiene workers, further galvanizes the man's beliefs. He photographs the incident, and his work allows him to be accepted into the school from which he was previously denied admission.
- DirectorPéter BacsóStarsFerenc KállaiLajos ÖzeZoltán FábriBanned for over a decade for its outspoken criticism of the post-WWII communist regime in Hungary, Péter Bacsó's 'The Witness' has since then achieved unparalleled cult status in its native land. Known as the best satire about communism, 'The Witness' has become a cult classic, which was also well received by critics and general audiences alike when it was finally released outside of Hungary. Its candid and realistic portrayal of the incompetent communist regime has earned great acclaim for both the director and the film itself when it was shown at Cannes Film Festival in 1981. 'The Witness' takes place during the height of the Rákosi Era, which was closely modeled after the ruthless and brutal Stalin regime. The film follows the life of an ordinary dike keeper, József Pelikán, who has been caught for illegally slaughtering his pig, Dezsõ. Instead of doing hard time for his "heinous" crime, Pelikán is elevated into an important position, generally reserved for the communist elite. Of course, Pelikán is utterly clueless about his newfound luck, not to mention his new job. Even his new benefactor, the mysterious Comrade Virág, is reluctant to reveal the real reason behind Pelikán's preferential treatment. Thus, begins Pelikán's hilarious adventure deep within the "sophisticated" communist society. One failure after another the incompetent Pelikán is elevated higher and higher on the communist echelon, all the while remaining completely clueless about his promotions. Until one day, when he gets called for to return the "favour" by falsely testifying against his long-time friend in a mock-up show trial.
- DirectorIstván GaálStarsIvan AndonovGyörgy BánffyJudit MeszléryThe daily routine of a falconry shows the newcomer how order through dictatorship can and cannot work.
- DirectorKároly MakkStarsLili DarvasMari TörőcsikIván DarvasThe wife of a political prisoner tends to her mother-in-law and keeps from the old woman the truth about her son, whom she believes is in New York making a film.
- DirectorMiklós JancsóStarsAndrea DrahotaGyöngyi BürösErzsi CserhalmiSet in the 1890s on the Hungarian plains, a group of farm workers go on strike in-which they face harsh reprisals and the reality of revolt, oppression, morality and violence.
- DirectorGyula GazdagStarsZoltán PaulinyiJános AtkáriLajos KelleryA high school summer camp doesn't go as expected: there's no work for the kids and they, out of boredom, sneak out to find some themselves.
- DirectorIstván GaálStarsMari TörőcsikIstván FerencziIrma PatkósA married couple lives in a deserted Hungarian village. The harshness and loneliness of their existence lead to internal turmoil.
- DirectorIstván SzabóStarsLucyna WinnickaMargit MakayKároly KovácsHungary's postwar history told through the dreams, nightmares, and memories of the inhabitants of an old house on the eve of its destruction.
- DirectorPál ZolnayStarsIstván IglódiFerenc SeböMárk ZalaA photographer and a retoucher are wandering in small villages. They go from house to house offering their services. They try to record the truth, the true faces of these people.
- DirectorMiklós JancsóStarsMari TörőcsikGyörgy CserhalmiJózsef MadarasIt has been fifteen years since the death of her father, Agamemnon, and Elektra still burns with hatred for Aegisztosz, who conspired with Elektra's mother to kill him.
- DirectorMárta MészárosStarsKatalin BerekGyöngyvér VighPéter FriedA lonely middle-aged woman wants to give birth to a child, but her acquaintance with dysfunctional teenagers leads her to the idea of adoption.
- DirectorGábor BódyStarsSándor CsutorosGyörgy CserhalmiAndrás FeketeThe film commemorates the Hungarian emigration of the forties. Its history takes place in the last days of the American Civil War and shows the different fates of three different characters, the rationalist, the fatalist and the romantic.
- DirectorZoltán FábriStarsLajos ÖzeLászló MárkusFerenc BenczeIn Budapest in 1944, a watchmaker, a book seller and a carpenter are drinking in a bar with the owner, when they are joined by a stranger. The watchmaker asks a hypothetical question that will change their lives.
- DirectorIstván SzabóStarsÁgi MészárosMaja KomorowskaFranciszek PieczkaA yellow tram lies overturned on the riverbank at the end of the war. Tattered, ragged, homeless men huddle together in a group, load it on rails trying to take it to the remise. Their journey is not easy, they have many difficulties to overcome. Each one has its own drama, yet they are united by a common will to reach their goal.
- DirectorBéla TarrStarsIrén SzajkiLászló HorváthGábor KunThe breakdown of the relationship of a couple by living in a flat of the husband's parents.
- DirectorAttila DargayStarsAndrás KernPéter GesztiLászló CsákányiA young peasant boy stands up to tyranny, aided by his trusting friend- a goose.
- DirectorPál GáborStarsVera PapErzsi PásztorÉva SzabóVera Angi works as a nurse in a hospital after WWII in communist Hungary. Because she speaks up about the terrible conditions in which the nurses and doctors have to work, she's placed in a six-month education course.
- DirectorAndrás JelesStarsJános OpoczkiIstván IványiJózsef FarkasTwenty-year-old Laszlo Sz., a driver's mate steals the money he should have posted and wandering around Budapest, visiting bars, restaurants, pinball parlors and various other places trying to make the day different and meaningful.
- DirectorPéter GothárStarsCecília EsztergályosPál HetényiJudit PogányIrén and Attila, a not-so-young couple, are in love. All they want is a flat of their own where they could live together. Unfortunately, Hungary in the 70s is no place for dreams.
- DirectorIstván SzabóStarsIldikó BánságiPéter AndoraiOszkárné GombikDuring WW2 Hungarian resistance hides a married couple from the officials. The woman is sent to act as the wife of one of the resistance members who is also in hiding and pretending to be somebody else. They slowly begin to fall in love.
- DirectorZoltán HuszárikStarsItschak FintziIstván HollAndrea DrahotaTivadar Csontváry Kosztka the one-ideaed Hungarian painter was thought to be crazy by his peers, but he eventually became a significant artist.
- DirectorFerenc RofuszA fine day in the life of a fly presented completely from the fly's point of view. A fine day until something dreary happens, that is.
- DirectorGábor BódyStarsPatricia AdrianiUdo KierGyörgy CserhalmiNarcissus and Psyche is based on a novel by Sandor Weores. Borrowing the character of Psyche from mythology and placing her in Europe in the 19th century, the authors give her a "modern" life. She is an attractive young woman - and remains so throughout the film, in spite of one hardship after another. Psyche is libidinous, and her prurient interests shock her staid contemporaries.
- DirectorIstván SzabóStarsKlaus Maria BrandauerIldikó BánságiKrystyna JandaIn early-1930s Germany, a passionate stage actor faces a dilemma: renounce his apolitical stance and comply with the Reich's doctrine, or face oblivion. But, Faustian bargains never end well. What is the price of success?
- DirectorPéter GothárStarsAnikó IvánIstván ZnamenákPéter GálfyA teenager boy has to grow up in the shifting political and moral landscape of post-1956 Hungary.
- DirectorKároly MakkStarsJadwiga Jankowska-CieslakGrazyna SzapolowskaJozef KronerPolitical and sexual repression in Hungary, just after the revolution of 1956. In 1958, the body of Eva Szalanczky, a political journalist, is discovered near the border. Her friend Livia is in hospital with a broken neck; Livia's husband, Donci, is under arrest. In a flashback to the year before, we see what leads up to the tragedy. Eva gets a job as a writer. She meets Livia and is attracted to her. Livia feels much the same, but as a married woman, has doubts and hesitations. In their work, they (and Eva in particular) bang up against the limits of telling political truths; in private, they confront the limits of living out sexual and emotional truth.
- DirectorMárta MészárosStarsZsuzsa CzinkócziÁgnes CsereAnna PolonyHaving lost her parents to Stalin's purges, a girl returns from Soviet Union to her native Hungary to live with her Stalinist aunt.
- DirectorPál SándorStarsPéter RudolfSándor ZsótérKatalin SzerbIn December 1956 there is a chaotic situation in Hungary. The revolution is put down by the Soviet army. People leave the country in large numbers for fear of revenge. A young soldier (György Angeli) who also took a part in the revolution, takes a train to Vienna together with his friend (Dániel Szerencsés).
- DirectorGábor BódyStarsGábor BódyMarietta MéhesJános DerzsiA priest arrives in a village and give advice and comfort to different people. He meets a wheelchair-bound former representative of the Communist party, a woman who is dying of tuberculosis and an astronomer who sings in a punk band.
- DirectorImre GyöngyössyBarna KabayStarsHédi TemessyFerenc ZentheGábor FehérAn elderly Jewish couple, adopt an unruly non-Jewish child to whom they intend to pass on their wealth and knowledge before Nazi oppression engulfs Hungary.
- DirectorAndrás JelesStarsPéter BocsorJúlia MéröEszter GyalogWhen Adam and Eve, having succumbed to Lucifer's temptation, are expelled from the Garden of Eden, Adam makes Lucifer keep his promise. Lucifer then grants Adam a dream of the world to come.
- DirectorIstván SzabóStarsKlaus Maria BrandauerHans Christian BlechArmin Mueller-StahlSet during the fading glory of the Austro-Hungarian empire, the film tells of the rise and fall of Alfred Redl (Brandauer), an ambitious young officer who proceeds up the ladder to become head of the Secret Police only to become ensnared in political deception.
- DirectorGábor KoltayStarsLászló PelsöczyMiklós VargaGyula VikidálAfter the death of Géza, the Hungarian monarch, his son István and his brother Koppány gets in a conflict for the Hungarian throne. Their battle should settle the fate of Hungary: whether it adopts Christianity or remains in Paganism.
- DirectorPéter GárdosStarsKamill FelekiKároly EperjesGyörgy DörnerYoung artiste (Oszkár Sajek) has an accident and gets a limp. He finds out that a superannuated artiste (Lipót Binder) has a fantastic attraction. Sajek would do anything to get it, but Lipót Binder is a very stubborn old man.
- DirectorBéla TarrStarsHédi TemessyErika BodnárMiklós Székely B.A large, claustrophobic apartment is the setting for this intense chamber drama. In this dense setting, the inhabitants of the apartment reveal their darkest secrets, fears, obsessions and hostilities.
- DirectorPéter TímárStarsÁdám RajhonaRóbert KoltaiJudit NémethAn all-woman crate factory's new fireman installs a hidden camera in the women's dressing room for the male management's pleasure, eventually boosting business.
- DirectorPeter B. Hutton
- DirectorMárta MészárosStarsZsuzsa CzinkócziÁgnes CsereAnna PolonyA continuation of "Diary for My Children," the film picks up in 1950, when Juli, the diarist, is 18 and determined to become a movie director.
- DirectorBéla TarrStarsMiklós Székely B.Vali KerekesGyula PauerA lonely barfly falls in love with a married bar singer.
- DirectorIstván OroszA typical apartment building in Budapest and their residents from the aspect of a young boy playing football sometime in the end of the 1980s at the time of the change of regime in Eastern Europe. Is there a way out from here? A geometrical paradox and a political parable at the same time.
- DirectorIldikó EnyediStarsDorota SegdaOleg YankovskiyPaulus MankerTwo twin sisters, who grew up separately, Dóra, a pseudo-aristocrat, and Lili, an anarchist bomber, are reunited through Z, a mysterious traveller of the luxurious Orient-Express.
- DirectorDezsö GarasStarsFerenc KállaiKároly EperjesJudit PogányIn the small village of Rátót, every male is called Béla. When a woman gives birth to her child, she names him Józsi... Almost 2 decades later, Józsi becomes pregnant...
- DirectorMárta MészárosStarsZsuzsa CzinkócziJan NowickiTamás VégváriDirect follow-up to "Diary for my lovers". Juli and the people who she knew throughout her life have to face the events of the 1956 failed revolution in Hungary.
- DirectorAndrás Monory MészStarsJudit LászlóPéter GeltzKároly EperjesIn a deserted industrial area on the edge of town, somewhere in Eastern Europe, there is a bathtub standing in the middle of an empty workshop. Eckermann, the meteorologist is having a bath in it. He spends most of his time daydreaming which earned him the nickname Little Cloud with his friends. He's got two friends: Berlioz, the restless hedonist and Vero, the strong and silent tough guy of the factories. The industrial area is going to be demolished very soon. The military unit controlling the industrial site orders everyone to evacuate the area which is being closed down - the guys need to move out.
- DirectorGyörgy FehérStarsPéter HaumannJános DerzsiJudit PogányWhen a schoolgirl is found murdered in the woods, a retiring detective tries to find her murderer.
- DirectorGyörgy SzomjasStarsÁgi SzirtesZoltán MucsiSándor GáspárThe year is 1989, the famous year of the collapse of the socialism in Eastern Europe. However, not a single moment in the film suggests the sublimity of this historical moment; on the contrary, the burlesque fuzziness of the moments on the screen satirize the arrogant theatrics of the political upstarts. The film turns, with a mocking gesture, to the unapproachable, profane, everyday mystery of political donkey. The scene is a run-down, food-smelling apartment block pub called the Stork and its immediate surroundings. Insecure, down-and-out existences live here: unemployed and casual laborers, grocers and taxi drivers, warm spirited swindlers and casual lovers. They are ugly and mean, soft spirited and quick-tempered. They're all nice rascals.
- DirectorPéter TímárStarsVera PapSándor GáspárKároly EperjesThe story takes place in 1989 in the suburbs of Budapest, where the neighbor maintains an underground worker's guard training base, while the youngsters fall victim to a mistakenly posted letter.
- DirectorBéla TarrStarsMihály VigPutyi HorváthLászló feLugossyOn the eve of a large payment, residents of a collapsing collective farm see their plans turn into desolation when they discover that Irimiás, a former co-worker who they thought was dead, is returning to the community.
- DirectorMarcell IványiStarsSzilvia CzoborIlona SomogyiMargit GyovaiDuring a film course lead by Yvette Biro at the Hungarian Academy of Drama and film in 1995, the director students were shown a black-and-white photo taken by Lucien Herve in 1952, and they were given the task of writing a short film based on it. Three women are standing at the outskirts of a village, looking out of the picture in the same direction. This six-minute one-shot film shows what the Herve photo does not.
- DirectorPéter TímárStarsJános GálvölgyiSándor AlmásiAnita TóthIn 1962, while Gagarin flew around the Earth and others prepared for World War III, no event has happened in Hungary since a certain year, and it looked like nothing will for at least 30 years. However, to ensure the certain, Mr. Simon, block-trustee and ever-watching bastion of socialist order and decency steps into action.
- DirectorAttila JanischStarsMari TörőcsikImre CsujaAndrás FeketeA sudden decision launches a traveler into a wild adventure. Is there hope for the survivor or is he captive of the torrential rain of a harsh, dark world? An old woman's journey full of secrets and surprises is half the way home.
- DirectorPéter GothárStarsMari NagyJózsef SzarvasValentin TeodosiuGizella Weisz is an middle-aged office worker, who gets a promotion one day. Her boss told her that a new outpost is waiting for her. There she would be heading a new section. She travels from place to another and finally arrives at her new outpost. It is a remote shed, where a half-insane co-worker is waiting for her. It is obvious that Weisz has not been promoted, but punished. However Weisz does not realize that herself. Without questioning she just accepts her promotion.
- DirectorJános SzászStarsMaia MorgensternAlpár FogarasiSzabolcs GergelyTurn-of-the-century Hungary. Two young brothers, neglected by their cold and uncaring mother, descend deeper and deeper into psychosis, with tragic consequences.
- DirectorPéter Forgács
- DirectorGyörgy FehérStarsIldikó BánságiDjoko RosicJános DerzsiIn this black-and-white Hungarian version of James M. Cain's The Postman Always Rings Twice, a wife and her lover plot to kill her older husband.
- DirectorMiklós JancsóStarsZoltán MucsiPéter SchererJózsef SzarvasA portrait of the wild capitalism after the regime change in Hungary, in which the characters show with a continuous change of identity how interests override everything. But in the end, everyone ends up in the same place and the same way.
- DirectorIldikó EnyediStarsPéter AndoraiJulie DelarmePéter HalászIn this surrealistic movie from the director of My 20th Century, the French police seek help from Simon, a visionary living in Budapest to solve a murder case. Whilst in Paris, Simon falls in love with Jeanne, although they do not speak each other's language. When Jeanne leaves for a couple of days, Peter, another visionary, calls Simon for a duel: They both have to spend three days buried alive. Will Simon ever meet his love again?
- DirectorBéla TarrÁgnes HranitzkyStarsLars RudolphPeter FitzHanna SchygullaA naive young man witnesses an escalation of violence in his small hometown following the arrival of a mysterious circus attraction.
- DirectorFerenc TörökStarsGábor KaralyosErzsi PápaiEszter Balla1989 is an important year in the political history of Hungary. However, Petya and his friends couldn't care less. They are about to graduate high school. The only important things to them are the parties, girls, making some easy cash. And of course, passing the upcoming exam with the leaked questions.
- DirectorGyörgy PálfiStarsFerenc BandiJózsefné RáczJózsef FarkasUsing almost no dialogue, the film follows a number of residents (both human and animal) of a small rural community in Hungary - an old man with hiccups, a shepherdess and her sheep, an old woman who may or may not be up to no good, some folk-singers at a wedding, etc. While most of the film is a series of vignettes, there is a sinister and often barely perceptible subplot involving murder.
- DirectorNimród AntalStarsSándor CsányiEszter BallaZoltán MucsiA tale about a strange young man, Bulcsú, the fellow inspectors on his team, all without exception likable characters, a rival ticket inspection team and racing along the tracks - and a tale about love.
- DirectorAttila JanischStarsTibor GáspárBorbála DerzsiSándor CzeczôThe details of a young girl's brutal murder are told through manipulated chronology and fragmented storylines.
- DirectorBenedek FliegaufStarsFelicián KeresztesBarbara ThurzóLajos SzakácsA drug dealer spends his last day alive pedaling around Budapest visiting friends and clients.
- DirectorKornél MundruczóStarsOrsolya TóthEszter WierdlZsolt TrillJohanna, a young drug addict, falls into a deep coma after an accident. Doctors miraculously manage to save her from death's doorstep. Touched by grace, Johanna cures patients by offering her body. The head doctor is frustrated by her continued rejection of him and allies himself with the outraged hospital authorities. They wage war against her but the grateful patients join forces to protect her. This is a filmic and musical interpretation of the Passion of Joan of Arc.
- DirectorBálint KenyeresStarsSándor BadárJános KalmárLajos KovácsBefore dawn, people will rise and other people will take away their hope.
- DirectorGyörgy PálfiStarsCsaba CzeneIstván GyuriczaGina MorenoThree generations of men, including a pervert that constantly seeks for new kinds of satisfaction, an obese speed eater and a passionate embalmer.
- DirectorSzabolcs TolnaiStarsNebojsa DugalicSlobodan CusticJasna ZalicaA story of a Jewish-Hungarian-Serbian family. The plot is centered about trying of an adult son to reconstruct his childhood dream of and memories. Looms, but a sunken world, the central European town with its figures, the way to experiencing deep and see a sensitive boy, his father, who by their fears that penetrate to the bone and the final humiliation of acting madness escapes and becomes a lonely, pathetic buffoon in the drama of life.
- DirectorCsaba BollókStarsMária VargaRózsika VargaMarian Rusache
- DirectorBenedek FliegaufStarsBarbara BaloghSándor BaloghPéter BalázsThis work on a joint at once of several genres of the modern art - music, cinema, a video art - so him it is possible to show not only in cinema halls, but also at exhibitions. In the movie there is no dialogue, and the created images cause the most unexpected metaphysical experiences. At the same time the author doesn't impose to the viewer of certain meanings.