László Ferencz

Szabóné

Félix Máriássy

Kornélia Sallay, Sándor Pécsi

A female worker in Socialist Hungary gains the acceptance of her male colleagues.

Razzia

László Nádasy

Ádám Szirtes, János Görbe

1932, Budapest. Gere János, an unemployed worker searching for employment in the capital, is organised into the secret police after a raid. Summary justice is declared, and the police wants to find an illegal communist press at any price. Gere, wandering about in the dark city, joins a man, helping him to carry his luggage. Slowly, Gere learns that his companion is a Communist and his task is to keep the press machine hidden from the police.

On Home Grounds

György Palásthy

Sándor Pécsi, Zoltán Latinovits

This ironic comedy is set in the god-forsaken Kiskúnbékás, at the end of the fifties. There are no jobs, the town's "golden team", who once were third class national soccer players have scattered

Látástól vakulásig

Sándor Szönyi G.

István Bujtor, József Székhelyi

Knight of the TV-screen

István Bácskai Lauró

Gábor Koncz, Ferenc Kállai

This mocking criticism of public life and the media focuses on a TV series. The protagonist of the film, depicting the battles fought for Hungarian castles during the Ottoman occupation, is chosen to be the amateur Prohászka Feri, a worker in the beer-factory.

Tízezer nap

Ferenc Kósa

Tibor Molnár, Gyöngyi Bürös

The changing and turbulent history of Hungary is seen through the eyes of three men over a 30-year period in this somber drama. The three recall the highlights of their lives in flashbacks as they reminisce in the mid 1960s. The venerable trio begin their story in the 1930s, through World War II, and the decade beyond the communist invasion of 1956.

Égrenyíló ablak

József Kis

Margit Dajka, Lajos Cs. Németh

Mrs. Fazekas and her three sons live in a tenement house in the outskirts. The eldest son, Fecó, is saving money in order to buy a washing machine for his mother, while her other two sons spend time by hanging around and playing tricks.

Alba Regia

Mihály Szemes

Tatyana Samoylova, Miklós Gábor

A Hungarian doctor, Dr. Hajnal, who always considered himself out of politics, falls in love with the Soviet intelligence agent, the radio operator Alba, operating in the occupied Wehrmacht of Hungary. By accident, the radio operator is hiding in the doctor’s house. Hainal is drawn into a life-threatening confrontation with the Germans. A difficult question arises before him: to remain neutral when people die around and Alba is threatened with death, or to remain an honest person — to make his personal choice and take part in this struggle.