Károly Makk
1925 - 2017In 1973 he was a member of the jury at the 8th Moscow International Film Festival. In 1980 he was a member of the jury at the 30th Berlin International Film Festival. His 2003 film A Long Weekend in Pest and Buda was entered into the 25th Moscow International Film Festival. Since September 27, 2011, he is the president of the Széchenyi Academy of Literature and Arts.
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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.
Love
Liliomfi
Károly Makk
Darvas Iván, Marianne Krencsey
Liliomfi is a 1954 Hungarian comedy film directed by Károly Makk. It was entered into the 1955 Cannes Film Festival. Set in the "Golden Era" of the wandering Hungarian theatre troupes. Mariska and Liliomfi fall in love without suspecting that Mariska's foster father, Professor Szilvay, 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 by exposing the professor's hypocrisy, greed, and tyrannical selfishness.
Lily Boy
Mese a 12 találatról
Károly Makk
István Somló, Irén Psota
The flat of Doctor Bartha is wetting, the Communal Management Enterprise does not act, the doctor and his wife are at the edge of divorce. Géza would marry his colleague, Kató, but mum is sick, the apartment is small, no money. Uncle Károly is fed up with unsuitable, charlatan business managers. Vali would marry, in order not to live on Titi and Piri any more, but the selected man wants to have a woman with her own apartment. All of them have a chance by the lottery, especially by hitting twelve scores.
Tale on the 12 Points
Ház a sziklák alatt
Károly Makk
János Görbe, Irén Psota
Three people – a returned prisoner of war, his beautiful second wife, and the possessive, hunchbacked spinster who is his sister-in-law by his first marriage – are isolated in a little house under an extinct volcano, where each strives for personal happiness but is suffocated by their dependence on the others.
The House Under the Rocks
A 9-es kórterem
Károly Makk
Tibor Molnár, Zoltán Makláry
The young worker Tóth Gáspár gets into hospital with stomachache. During the night his state is worsening. The doctor on duty, Málnási does not attend the patient despite the call of the nurse, for he spends the night with nurse Margó.
Ward No. 9
His Majesty's Dates
Károly Makk
Irén Psota, Darvas Iván
The chroniclers are diligently scribbling the history of life and deeds of the virtuous and wise King Matthias, who, in the meantime, sneaks out of the palace in disguise. Instead of attending a boring reception of the imperial deputies and papal legates, he pays his address to three pretty women from Szelistye.
His Majesty's Dates
A nagy agyhalal
Pál Sándor, Károly Makk
Miklós Jancsó makes fun of his reputation for creating exceptional visuals in "A nagy agyhalál AKA The Great Brain Death." It is the most difficult vignette and while visually stunning, remains difficult to decipher, she breaks with allegorical storytelling.
The Great Brain Death
Another Way
Károly Makk
Grażyna Szapołowska, Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieślak
Political 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.
Another Way
Fűre lépni szabad
Károly Makk
Antal Páger, Zoltán Makláry
Daddy Kárász, the stakhanovist worker, complains in a television interview about the fact that his family, consisting of many members, cannot get a home on their own. Kéri, the chairman of the local authority, promises to help him on the condition that if he does not, they may move in to his villa at elegant Pasarét. Nothing happens, therefore the Kárász family takes Kéri by his word. From this time on, tumultuous scenes and frequent quarrels take place in the villa between the two families.
Don't Keep Off the Grass
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.
The Fanatics
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.
A Very Moral Night
A harminckilences dandár
Károly Makk
József Bihari, Gyula Benkő
The spring of 1919. Karikás Frigyes reorganises brigade 39 at the Tisza. His most devoted soldiers are Korbély János and his followers, who remain faithful to the political commissioner under all circumstances.
The Brigade No. 39
