István Dárday

Filmregény - Három nővér

István Dárday

Eszter Bodnár, Márta Himmer

The documentary-feature film, featuring amateur players and showing the life of three sisters in its simple dull flow of events, has grown to be the symbol of the Budapest School. The Kertész-girls live in a little apartment in a block of flats in Budapest with their parents. At the beginning of the film, each talks about her dream-future. They would like to have glass-walled rooms, well-to-do husbands, apartments in the greens, dogs, travelling, smiling children, social life.

Tükröződések

Györgyi Szalai, István Dárday

Gábor Altorjay, Teo Fabricius

The two main locations of the film are Venice and New York - it is these two settings in which the protagonist, an astrologist, is slowly dying. He is a victim of the Chernobyl catastrophe.

Átváltozás

Györgyi Szalai, István Dárday

Miklós Jáky, Gábor Csordás

This documentary feature film is set in a two-storey villa, where three generations live together representing four different scales of values and views of life.

The Documentator

Györgyi Szalai, István Dárday

Mihály Dés, Lilla Pászti

Via the New York Times: "...the film has the free form of the agitprop movies made by Jean-Luc Godard in the late 1960's and early 1970's. At the center of it is the small fictional tale of Raffael, who stands for everything rotten in the newly liberalized Hungarian society. He is the owner of an amazingly profitable video shop in Budapast and, it seems, a speculator in currencies."

Nyugattól keletre, avagy a média diszkrét bája

Györgyi Szalai, István Dárday

András Szőke, János Regös

In this Hungarian comedy post communist materialism is satirized. Someone in Hungary has won a large screen TV set. As they live in the country, it must be delivered from Budapest upon the back of an abandoned Russian military truck. The TV is turned on so that all the truck passes will see its perfect picture and hear its messages.

Az emigráns - Minden másképp van

Györgyi Szalai, István Dárday

Ferenc Bács, Katalin Gyöngyössy

The final years of Sándor Márai's voluntary exile in San Diego, which led to his suicide in 1989. Based on his own diary.

Jutalomutazás

Györgyi Szalai, István Dárday

Mária Simai, József Borsi

The film is a documentary-feature film based on real stories and made with amateur actors. The district pioneer secretary is assigned to find a pioneer who can play a musical instrument, has a working-class background, and studies well at school and appoint him for a one-month-long premium holiday in Britain. He finds a guitarist, Balogh Tibi, in a village school.

Rongyos hercegnő

István Dárday

An ironic insight into the cultural politics of Hungary's Kádár-era.

Törvénytelen Muskátli I-III.

András Kisfaludy

László Benke, István Dárday

Hungarian documentary mini-series.

Negatív magyar filmtörténet

Gyula Nemes

Ferenc András, István Bácskai Lauró

Reconstructions of unrealized Hungarian films in cooperation with the greatest Hungarian film directors.

Nevelésügyi sorozat

Pál Vilt, György Dobray

A five part docu-drama following the everyday lives, family conflicts, careers, joys and problems of a married couple of school teachers and their five children.

Harcmodor

Györgyi Szalai, István Dárday

Ida Piri, Tivadar Kovács

The story played by civilian players is laid in a Transdanubian village, where on the initiative of the municipality doctor the local inhabitants wish to build a social welfare home as volunteers, with the support of the local co-operative and the state farm. Having first consented to the plan, the leadership of the county starts opposing the project because of the plan to build a social welfare home called the City of the Happy Aged to be established by the county. Both parties take the field for their ideas and the battle starts.

Reklámbrigád

Györgyi Szalai, István Dárday

A documentary about advertisement and primarily following a man working as a billboard installer.