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Hungarian documentary that commemorates the life and work of director and artist László Mészáros through archival footage and personal testimonies. A heartfelt portrait of a significant voice in Eastern European auteur cinema.
Personal remembering on the WW2 Hungarian leader Miklós Horthy by his grandson István.
In September 1967, a premiere of theatrical historical significance took place in the Pest Theatre. It was the inauguration of the new theatre and the beginning of an unparalleled success story. The exceptional class and success of the production justified the fact that this time Hungarian Television did not record the production in the traditional way, in the theatre, but in a studio, also directed by István Horvai, which took several days to complete. This diary is the final self-expression of a repressed man on the road to madness, living without a chance of escape, locked in himself, hopelessly in love. Gogol reveals this psychological pathology with grotesque vision and clinical precision, yet every moment of it is deeply moving and human.
Trygaeus visits Gods to make them stop all the war on Earth.
The movie is based on a novel by I. Astalos. It tells about the hard life of poor people in bourgeois Hungary.
A passionate poet feels abandoned at the places of amusement in the Boulevard.
Based on Confession, a play by Rose Meller. Elma Bulla repeats her stage role as a young woman who takes the blame for a theft which she believes was committed by her lover. The ungrateful jerk assumes that she did commit the crime, and further supposes that she did it on behalf of his romantic rival. Throughout the rest of the film, Bulla tries to revoke her confession, only to find that no one will believe her. Only when the genuine culprit is revealed is Bulla cleared and reunited with her sweetheart -- though if ever there was a man unworthy of her devotion, it is surely this one! Devotees of newcomer Elma Bulla were thoroughly satisfied with this screen version of her theatrical triumph.
Short animated Hungarian film.
Moto Perpetuo shows an absurd picture of our neverending changing culture and history.
A little girl fidgets by the desk at which her father is working. Suddenly she appears on top of the table, where she shrinks to only a few centimetres in size. The scene launches into a series of surrealistic objects of her environment. She is comforted with many situations that could conceivably happen to her in the future, and they prove to be more threatening than reassuring. At the end of film we find Esther restored to her normal self again, sitting on the lap of her father.
Bence lurks around the same apartment, looking at the same girl every night. After a series of coincidences, he finds himself in her apartment, alone. As he ghostly walks around the empty apartment, the boy reveals his secret.
Once a week, the dance teacher rolls into a small Hungarian village at the end of the world in his yellow Citroën and, like a magician, gives lessons to women and men: how to rise elegantly into the air and fly to the melody of the music. The film is about how the blue bird of happiness flutters around us here.
Lotti comes home drunk at daybreak. Her boyfriend Karcsi greets her with silent rejection. Lotti dreams of her parents and her childhood. The next day, the couple get ready for the visit of Karcsi's parents. Lotti is haunted again and again by memories of the day that was in her dream. They get everything ready, and for a moment, things seem to be fine. Karcsi's parents ring the bell. Lotti is left alone for a few minutes. Karcsi's overwhelming expectations bury her. Her escaping mechanism is her father's bad patterns from the past. She hides from everyone in the pantry and pulls out a bottle of red wine.
The animated film, “Days that were Filled with Sense by Fear”, deals with the story of a classic love triangle, using the style and the means of the film noir. The main characters of this love story are the ultra-rich mafioso, Mr. Butter, his beautiful wife, Olga, and his servant or „his right hand”, Pedro. “The bitterness and the revenge of the injured husband is the devil’s work, Pedro! The trap is set… And you are sitting in the middle of it!” says Mr. Butter in a phone message at the beginning of the film. Olga and Pedro have to escape from the revenge of the husband. Their surreal adventures end in a car-crash, and finally are taken back to Mr. Butter’s villa. Olga and Pedro are exposed to the anger of the cheated husband. They are both punished, but in a special way…
“See you next year!” a Portuguese fire warden says as he dismantles his control equipment at the end of the season. Humans and nature in southern Europe may be used to forest fires, but that does not change the facts: The ever more massive conflagrations are caused by climate change. We have long been living in the age of fire.
In March 1974, Hungarian television recorded a concert by Tamás Cseh and Ad Libitum as a live concert for two days (16-17) in the largest lecture hall of the Budapest University of Technology in front of a crowded student audience. The recording was made in black and white on magnetic tape by a car that drove up to the building.
Death Rode Out of Persia is the story of a writer who realises after three years of heavy drinking that he has to get down to some serious work or risk having no money to continue his bingeing. So he starts a romantic novel in which the principal character (the writer’s young alter ego) must choose between the love of a woman and his addiction to cigarettes and alcohol. According to the director, the film "was produced on a very small budget, but the friendship between the crew allowed them to overcome the initial obstacles.
Years later, the memory of their first, unfulfilled love still haunts Miklós, a once poor schoolboy, and Eva, the mayor's daughter, separated by social barriers in the past and family ties today.
The best thing for a coo is to be left alone and just lie on top of the pile, chatting and watching for days on end. But more often than not, their peaceful start to the day turns into a complicated adventure. However, they are good friends, so together they can solve even the most troublesome situations.
Lauretta's mother faints, falls on the floor while vacuuming and gets hospitalized. The 30-year-old cashier, alone in the apartment, finds an old letter among her mother's belongings - a letter that could have changed her life.
Our film presents the life of a 25-year-old, mute, autistic boy and his parents. The father, long ago, sees the struggle and hatred of his son. The mother is trying to get her family back and she still hopes her baby will talk again. The boy completely excludes the outside world from his life and dedicates his time to reading. A helper coming from outside, unexpectedly opens the door to the boy's inner voice.
Four young gay guys investigate how Hungarian society and the state have been treating gays and how gays' personal experiences of social and political oppression have changed since Communism until today.
The Underground subcultures in Budapest are an integral part of the diverse and colorful Hungarian culture. The creators of the film - Esther Turan and Anna Koltay - wanted to explore what were the major youth music subcultures in the '90s and 2000s in Budapest. This film is a tribute to the underground subcultures of the city. In these series of films, these grass-roots groups deal with the social impact of their community building power and the role played by Budapest itself in the formation of these groups. The film explores the kind of atmosphere and unwritten rules, what were the dominant places, external signs, and symbols, or who were the central figures and what were the memorable stories. The film guides the viewer from the best bands to the message, from the typical attire to the cult bars. The new generation is a starting point, a complex retrospective of where it originated and why the colorful underground cultural life still characterizes Budapest today.
Now when he had left speaking, he said unto Simon, launch out into the deep and let down your nets for a draught. And Simon answering said unto him, Master, we have toiled all the night, and have taken nothing: nevertheless at thy world I will let down the net.
Szegedi Anna, a lawyer having just arrived back from Naples wants to divorce his husband, also a lawyer, because since a hot night she has only been thinking of Laczkó, the handsome businessman.
Istvan Bors was adapted from the popular Hungarian stage play by Sandor Hunyady, with a few songs added to the mixture. The title character, played by Antal Pager, is an impoverished farmhand whose lot in life is radically altered when he inherits a fortune. Istvan Bors' benefactor was a fabulously wealthy business executive who happened to be our hero's real father. Baron Tulgody (Bela Mihalyffy), the decedent's nephew, is understandably put out when Istvan is declared the sole heir, but he fulfills the conditions of the will and permits the scruffy farmhand to move into the family's ancestral estate. Gradually, Istvan ingratiates himself with the rest of the household, even winning over the Baron after a last-act plot convolution. The whimsically inconclusive ending of the original play was altered a bit, but the results were so satisfying that no one had any cause for complaint.
How a man feels when he sees a beautiful nude...
Adaptation of 1911 novel The Reason Why by Elinor Glyn – Tancred, the English Lord, after having lost all his money wants to immigrate to Canada. He was about to leave when his friend presented him with a rich widow, Zora. The young man is delighted with this opportunity, gets married and stays in England. The woman suspects that her husband married her only because of her money, so at the beginning she behaves coldly with him. The husband, however, gradually becomes increasingly in love with his wife and he would heat up their chilly relationship. One day - when Zora tells her life story to her husband– two hearts finally find each other, and marriage of convenience becomes a love marriage.
I reconnect with my grandmother and her next-door neighbor, who partially raised me until the age of 6, hoping that they can help me understand why I lived separated from the rest of my family during this period.
The long dead ghosts of celluloid are coming back to haunt the digital space.
A father finds refuge in memories created together with his daughter, who has been stricken with an illness. She has decided to keep her distance from him and they have not spoken for years. The film encourages her to reconsider her decision.
Documentary about the poet György Faludy.
Filmed in the Hortobágy region of the Great Hungarian Plain, Hoellering presents three generations of herdsmen and an arresting depiction of societal progress.
Cannes Jury Prize-winning short film.
An intimate sneak-peek into a contemporary taboo topic: intimate lives of the female migrants away from home. Olha is a migrant care worker in Naples, whose life could fill up a few telenovelas. And yet, it is so similar to the lives of many Ukrainian women in Italy. Will Olha be able to give Naples a chance and find a true feeling among the routines of her transnational life? The full-length film is based on a short documentary film of the same title by the same director, which was filmed as part of the Verzio Film Festival's DocLab workshop in 2016.
A small-time crook robs a thread shop and the owner decides to chase down the culprit herself, whatever the cost.
Attila is struggling to restart his life after a car accident forcing his sister in wheelchair. Meeting Zsolt could bring the opportunity, but Attila slowly realizes he is used to carry out an illegal mission around a billion dollar invention spied through his own eyes.
Hungarian version of Beethoven's opera