András Ambrus

I'll Appeal to the Minister

Frigyes Bán

László Bánhidi, Antal Páger

A comedy about the organisation of agricultural co-operatives. In the village of "Rendes", everybody has already entered the co-op, only the stubborn farmer, Bódog Balogh continues to resist. The leadership plays all their tricks and uses all their efforts, but all in vain.

Love

Károly Makk

Mari Törőcsik, Lili Darvas

Luca regularly visits her bedridden mother-in-law. Luca's husband, János, has been arrested on a trumped up political charge, and Luca does not know if he is still alive. Luca hides this from his mother by making up letters purporting to be from János who is directing a big film in New York. Luca discovers that János is alive, and is dismissed from her teaching job because of her husband. The dying mother anxiously awaits the return of her son from New York.

Látástól vakulásig

Sándor Szönyi G.

István Bujtor, József Székhelyi

Hideg napok

András Kovács

Zoltán Latinovits, Darvas Iván

Andras Kovacs' film, considered one of the most important Hungarian films of the 1960s, centers around four men who await trial for their involvement in the massacre of several thousand Jewish and Serbian people of Novi Sad in 1942. Each denies any responsibility, claiming that they were only following orders. The film is significant for its willingness to address the subject of Hungary's role in WWII, which was taboo at the time of the its release.

Iszony

György Hintsch

Andrea Drahota, Ferenc Kállai

Nelli, the icy, introverted farm girl, needs to find a husband following her father's death. She accepts the attentions of the noisy Takaró Sanyi, although she is more attracted to his silent and modest younger brother.

Három csillag

Miklós Jancsó, Zoltán Várkonyi

Lajos Básti, Miklós Gábor

В фильме три новеллы. Первая — о стойкости и мужестве рабочих военного завода, которые накануне вступления советских войск в Венгрию объявили забастовку. Вторая — о трех советских воинах, которые во время боя попали в крестьянскую избу, где больная женщина просила привести священника, чтобы он окрестил ее новорожденного. Воины выполнили просьбу женщины, чем заслужили ее благодарность. Уходя, они оставили мальчику на память три звездочки со своих головных уборов. Третья — о том, как советские войска, заняв один из венгерских городков, спасли жизнь большому количеству людей, скрывавшихся от зверств фашистов в одном из подземелий.

Fel a fejjel

Márton Keleti

Kálmán Latabár, Gyula Benkő

On the Spring of 1945 the Jackson circus is heading towards the border with the clown Peti and Aida, the elephant. They have to play for the Hungarian Fascists, while Peti is hiding the Jew Annuska and Sanyika.

The Revolt of Job

Barna Kabay, Imre Gyöngyössy

Ferenc Zenthe, Hédi Temessy

The story of a childless Jewish couple in WWII-era Hungary who adopt a Hungarian boy and raise him with their values and traditions.

Bakaruhában

Imre Fehér

Darvas Iván, Margit Bara

The poetic love story depicting everyday life from a micro-psychological aspect takes place in the 1910s. Sándor, editor of the local paper, serves as a foot soldier on Sundays, but spends weekdays playing billiard and courting women. One Sunday afternoon - in soldier's uniform - he meets Vilma, the beautiful maid, whose honesty and chastity turns the adventure to love.

Lúdas Matyi

László Ranódy, Nádasdy Kálmán

Imre Soós, Erzsi Pártos

Первый венгерский цветной фильм был поставлен на основе популярной народной сказки (в литературной обработке Михая Фазекаша). 1820-е годы. Добрёги, надменный жестокий помещик конфисковал на ярмарке гусей у юноши-пастуха Матьи Лудаша и приказал высечь парня. Обиженный юноша не смирился с оскорблением и ловко проучил негодяя.

The Fanatics

Károly Makk

György Pálos, Éva Pap

Bene, tired of the professional battles of engineers and trying to escape a ship-wrecked marriage, asks to be transferred to the country. The gravest problem of the sandy region in Nagyalföld (Great Hungarian Plain) is the shortage of water. The tireless director of the local state farm asks for Bene's support, but the disillusioned man refuses him.

Simon Menyhért születése

Károly Makk, Zoltán Várkonyi

Ági Mészáros, Ádám Szirtes

Venice Film Festival 1954

Holt vidék

István Gaál

Mari Törőcsik, István Ferenczi

This Hungarian film chronicles the slow deterioration in the life of Juli, a farmer's wife. As the countryside grows ever more deserted because people are moving to towns or large collective farms, she spends more and more time alone. Despite her best efforts to appreciate her situation, her despair grows. The loneliness is briefly interrupted when she and her husband take in an old woman and care for her, but the woman dies. Shortly after her son visits, she is killed in an accident which may have been a suicide. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi

Egy erkölcsös éjszaka

Károly Makk

Margit Makay, Irén Psota

A brothel in a small Hungarian town becomes the home of a medical student after his favorite working girls find out he's out of rent money. Trouble brews as they learn his mother is coming for a visit and they must transform the house.

Az aranyember

Viktor Gertler

András Csorba, Ilona Béres

Adaptation of Mór Jókai's classic 19th century novel on Mihály Tímár, the captain of a commercial Danube ship in the 1830s, who finds unexpected fortune by meeting a Turkish aristocrat fleeing from his home country with his daughter Tímea. On their journey, they find an unknown island on the Danube, called the Senki szigete (the Island of No-one), a sort of earthly paradise, with only an old woman and her young daughter Noémi living on it.

A ménesgazda

András Kovács

József Madaras, Ferenc Bács

In 1950, when a young communist director arrives to take charge of a stud farm, his efforts to draw on the experience of the old hands there meet with little success. Indeed, so outraged are they at the changeover to communism that they harass him at every turn, especially after he treats a local barmaid as if she were a whore of some kind. After administering a beating to him, the old hands are nonetheless incensed when he calls on the police. The director doesn't get enough help, however, because the stable hands stab him before running off for the border.