István Egri
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Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: May 21, 1908
Deathday: July 10, 1980
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Known For
The Black City
1972-11-26
The Black City
Overview: Feature film version of the 1971 series.
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Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1972-11-26
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Fatia Negra
1959-08-18
Fatia Negra
Overview: The old, sickly Demeter Lapussa is a tyrant in the family. He forces his granddaughter, the beautiful Henriette, to marry baron Hátszegi, although the girl loves the penniless Vámhidy Szilárd. The two lovers attempt to commit suicide, then are torn away from each other.
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Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1959-08-18
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My Daughter Is Different
1937-11-14
My Daughter Is Different
Overview: Gitta is 20 years old, a girl with modern attitudes, who is courted by Ferenc Fekete. Not particularly liked by Gitta's parents, especially her old-fashioned father, Fekete dates Gitta in secret.
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Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1937-11-14
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St. Peter's Umbrella
1958-12-17
St. Peter's Umbrella
Overview: A comedy about a lost inheritance, love and a red umbrella, which, according to a local legend, belonged to St. Peter himself.
Genres: Comedy History
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1958-12-17
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Knight of the TV-screen
1970-01-04
Knight of the TV-screen
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1970-01-04
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Rákóczi's Lieutenant
1954-02-04
Rákóczi's Lieutenant
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Genres: Action History
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1954-02-04
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Aranyborjú
1974-04-25
Aranyborjú
Overview:
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1974-04-25
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Othello in the Province
1966-01-01
Othello in the Province
Overview: An ambitious theatre director arrives in Gyulaháza from the capital. The aim of the young Debrődy is to shake up the locals and turn the life of the town upside down.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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The Borrowed Castle
1937-10-26
The Borrowed Castle
Overview: Among the Gruber family, the rumor spreads like wildfire that their wealthy American relative, Menyhért Gruber, is visiting Hungary with his daughter, Mary. Various plans are devised to exploit the rich relative. The boldest of them all is the plan of Bálint Koltay, who directly pursues Mary's hand. However, the young ones fall in love with each other so deeply that Bálint stands by Mary even when the "wealthy" Gruber informs him that he's bankrupt. At this point, the only thing left to arrange is for Bálint, who poses as a landowner, to actually present a noble castle to his future father-in-law.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1937-10-26
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Liberated Land
1951-03-30
Liberated Land
Overview: Jóska has become a Communist in the Csillag prison in Szeged. In the meantime, Gábor successfully talks people in Jóska's native village out of joining the German-led Hungarian army.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1951-03-30
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The Money-Maker
1964-07-08
The Money-Maker
Overview: This film comedy takes place in the good old times of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy at the turn of the century. Bányai, an impecunious clerk suddenly finds himself to be able to make perfect imitations of ornaments on the bank-notes. Being spurred by his incessantly shrewish mother-in-law, he finds a solution to his family's financial problems overnight, but an ambitious detective becomes suspicious of him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1964-07-08
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Sweet Stepmother
1935-10-14
Sweet Stepmother
Overview: The child's must have a mother! - This is the doctor's instructions, and a young widow will do everything so that little girl's mood will change.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1935-10-14
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Smugglers
1958-09-23
Smugglers
Overview: In the thirties, the poor living by the Romanian-Hungarian border, were forced to smuggling if they wanted to survive. Mihály, the Hungarian peasant, kills a border guard while fleeing. He is fed up with smuggling and wants to put an end to it, yet he needs money to get a job so he embarks on another turn.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1958-09-23
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On Home Grounds
1969-01-23
On Home Grounds
Overview: 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
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1969-01-23
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Az utolsó budai basa
Az utolsó budai basa
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Original Language: hu
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Sweet and Bitter
1966-01-01
Sweet and Bitter
Overview: At the beginning of the thirties the sour, boring life of the Hungarian small town is enlivened by a charity action: with the lead of the beautiful wife of the attorney funds are raised for the orphans.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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Vidám elefántkór
1971-12-10
Vidám elefántkór
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1971-12-10
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The Soil Under Your Feet
1948-12-23
The Soil Under Your Feet
Overview: In 1905 Hungary, a young village woman has just undergone a marriage to the spoiled son of a man to whom her father is indebted, in order that the debt be cancelled, only to be spirited away by her true love, a young peasant, by whom she soon becomes pregnant. Together they attempt to find a way to buy up her father's debt and also pay for a divorce from her husband, against various odds.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1948-12-23
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The Storm
1952-12-01
The Storm
Overview: Vörös Hajnal (Red Dawn), a co-operative is the venue of skylarking, while the storm destroys the wheat which is to be harvested soon. Árendás, a middle-peasant, voices severe accusations against members of the co-operative: out of negligence, they failed to keep the ditches clean. It is always the soft option they seem to favour, while the necessity of properly taking care of the farmlands is long-forgotten. Members of the co-operative and the village people are deeply divided.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1952-12-01
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Honour and Glory
1951-04-12
Honour and Glory
Overview:
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1951-04-12
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Tüzkeresztség
1952-02-23
Tüzkeresztség
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1952-02-23
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Abyss
1956-06-05
Abyss
Overview: Nagy István, the formerly poor peasant boy returns to his native village as a teacher. His conviction is that the abyss between rich and poor can be diminished by good will. The rich Böröcz Horváth Klári returns his love, and also Böröcz Horváth is willing to help the poorest family, the Bakos. Bakos Jóska, who was sent to serve the tough Böröcz Horváth as a payment, dies of an infected wound and the people in the village hold the teacher liable as well. Nagy István realises, that the abyss cannot be ceased, what is more, it is impassable. He breaks up with his fiancée and stands by the side of the poor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1956-06-05
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Dollar Daddy
1956-05-17
Dollar Daddy
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1956-05-17
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Spiral Staircase
1957-10-17
Spiral Staircase
Overview: The film is an interpretation of everyday life and privacy as well as the first love-triangle story after 1945. Benkő Lajos, the country librarian, is stationed in the capital. In lack of a suitable apartment, his wife and children have to stay in the country.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1957-10-17
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The Sea has Risen
1953-08-18
The Sea has Risen
Overview: March 15, 1848; the revolution breaks out in the town of Pest. Yet at café Pilvax, in among he revolutionary youth, there is the informer of the imperial court as well. Hearing the news of the attack led by Jellasics, the inhabitants of the villages pour into the national army, and Hajdú Gyurka also escapes from his landlord. Petőfi is there at the camp of the revolutionaries, raising them to enthusiasm with his poetry.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1953-08-18
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Green Walnut
1976-01-01
Green Walnut
Overview:
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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A Quiet Home
1957-08-18
A Quiet Home
Overview: The composer Berki András, in his co-tenancy noisy with the barking of dogs and the hullabaloo of children, is unable to compose the new song for his fiancée, the singer, although the premiere is near. He cannot believe his eyes as he sees the official decision that he will soon get an apartment on his own. Yet his joy is soon over. The pharmacist Ács Éva arrives with identical documents. The situation which evolves as a result of the new co-tenancy forces them to cover up things before their partners.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1957-08-18
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Isten óvd a királyt
1968-01-04
Isten óvd a királyt
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1968-01-04
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