Ádám Szirtes
Also Known As: Адам Сиртеш
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Tápiósáp, Hungary [now Sülysáp, Hungary]
Birthday: February 10, 1925
Deathday: July 27, 1989
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Black City
Overview: Feature film version of the 1971 series.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1972-11-26
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A 78-as autóbusz útvonala - Kis kitérővel
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Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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Martin Cuckoo
Overview: Marci, an impertinent crook buries his drunk parents and chooses to wander instead of becoming an apprentice.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Music
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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The Martyrdom of St. John
Overview: Story of a young teacher starting to work in rural Hungary
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1966-03-24
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Tűrhető Lajos
Overview: Öcsi is a difficult child to handle, although he always wants to do good. For example, if he fights, he only does it to protect the girls, he does the dishes in the bathroom because he developed a better procedure, and he also brought a puppy home just to ease the family’s financial worries.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1988-07-08
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The Girl
Overview: A young woman leaves a state orphanage to find her mother in this interesting examination of how the overt repression of women in the older pattern of village life has been replaced by the more subtle exploitation inherent in the apparently freer existence of young girls in the contemporary city.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1968-05-16
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Just Like America
Overview: Frigyes, shortly after immigrating to New York City from Hungary, leaves his family for the pleasures and gratifications of being a street bum. But as time goes by, the appeal of this lifestyle wanes. A series of adventures with other drifters reaches a dramatic conclusion when some thugs murder one of them. This startling event forces Frigyes to come to terms with his current situation and decide whether to return to the family he abandoned.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1988-01-11
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Romanticism
Overview: This film, set at the end of the 18th century, in a provincial and noble environment raises the question of humans forced to lead a meaningless life. The rich Transylvanian noble youth, Kálmán, absorbed the spirit of freedom and enlightened culture in Paris. Returning to his father's estate, he encounters a superstitious backwardness and an orgiastic storming of violence and instincts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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The Palisade Street Kidnapping
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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Sparrows Are Birds Too
Overview: A comedy about two twin brothers - Sándor, who emigrated and became a rich man, and Zoltán, who stayed in Hungary and lives the life of an average working-class man. When Sándor visits his twin brother, they are constantly mistaken for each other, and when Zoltán sees how differently people treat Sándor because of his money and his foreign citizenship, he begins to like being mistaken for him - until he realizes that this means he will lose his girlfriend Szöszi...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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Twenty Hours
Overview: A crusading newspaper reporter covers the Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956. Initially critical of the communists, the feature later espouses the virtues of the social changes implemented since the invasion. The title refers to the period of time the reporter spent interviewing witnesses to the invasion.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1965-03-11
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Catherine' Marriage
Overview: Kis Katalin and Varga Jóska are getting married. During their honeymoon they are preparing plans for the future. Katalin, however, seems to lag behind both in her studies and the work competition, becoming a couch potato version of a wife. Jóska, instead of trying to help, does nothing else than his work.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1950-08-12
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It's a Long Way Home
Overview: Csepel, 1945. The Csűrös family, in addition to their three children, give accommodation to the orphaned Jóska, although they themselves struggle with difficult circumstances. The boy lends a helping hand in the factory during the days.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1960-04-28
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The Fanatics
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1962-01-18
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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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Aranyidő
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1985-06-03
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Villa Negra
Overview: A past world is revived in the little cottage in the outskirts, next to the housing blocks under construction. Tamburás, the old hobo collects swerved youth: Diák, who desires freedom, the bus driver who is deprived of his license for having run over someone, and the rest. They have got an easy and unbound life there, with constant music, small thefts, occasional labour, tricks.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1963-09-21
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Dream Brigade
Overview: The heroes of the film are manual workers, members of a Socialist Brigade. Gyula, the brigade leader once has a dream where the gate-keeper searches through Lenin, about to leave the factory. He decides to stage Gelman's play, Premium, with his brigade, since the drama very effectively depicts what they see in the world around.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1989-01-26
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The Elephant
Overview: Just a few days before the foreign delegation arrives at the ZOO, someone scribbled the elephant with unwashable paint.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1978-09-10
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The Widow and the Police Officer
Overview: Mrs. Holló reports the case of three missing persons to the police. During the investigations, the captain realises that there is nothing to deter Mrs. Holló from her trying to overcome loneliness.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-04-28
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Pheasant Tomorrow
Overview: The loving couple of this grotesque parable parody of the Kádár-regime, Mária and István row to an uninhabited, idyllic island. Soon crazy tent-pitchers swarm to the island, led by an official representative of the regime.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1974-04-28
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Hello, Vera
Overview: The family travels to Zebegény for their holiday, and the following day the seventeen-year-old Vera also leaves for Lake Balaton to pick peaches in a voluntary camp there. Her boyfriend, Gyuri, goes to a film shooting. Gyuri would like to make the best of the day in the absence of parents, but Vera refuses him. She becomes jealous at once, however, when she discovers Gyuri's previous girlfriend in the shooting team.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1967-03-09
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A Mad Night
Overview: The grotesque comedy with crime elements takes place in a grocery store.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1970-01-08
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Captive Ráby
Overview: Joseph II, the enlightened Austro-Hungarian emperor, entrusts his loyal and confidential subject, Ráby Mátyás, formerly a treasurer, to examine the abuses made by the magistrates of Szentendre and Izbég. Following his old friend, Dacsó Marci's directions, Ráby reveals horrible robberies, tax evasions, frauds, and other illegal acts having been committed against the people.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-09-19
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The Birth of Menyhért Simon
Overview: Venice Film Festival 1954
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1954-01-21
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A Thorn under the Fingernail
Overview: From the intrigues and slander of the branch the painter Hódosi moves out to a hamlet at Hortobágy. He gets into conflict situation as well as he cannot endure that the political and economic elite of the neigbourhood would devastate the nature conservation area with hunting and (tax evading) goose husbandry.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1987-06-06
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Another Way
Overview: Political and sexual repression in Hungary, just after the revolution of 1956. Passionate and determined, Eva gets a job as a journalist. There, 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.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1982-05-01
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Cold Days
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1966-09-26
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Popcorn und Paprika
Overview: The German national swimming team travels to Budapest for a competition. However, the teenagers are more interested in flirting with each other than training. Their coach is less than thrilled with his team's behavior.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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The Talking Caftan
Overview: The 16th century Kecskemét troubled by both the Kurutses and the Labancs would like a Bey from the Buda pasha to defend them in exchange for four beautiful girls, but only gets a caftan. It was a good deal, however. All Muslims fall on their knees when they see the magic caftan and fulfil its owner's wish.
Genres: Drama History Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1969-06-09
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The Magic Jacket
Overview: The poor little Ferkó is trying to enrich his miserable life with imaginary fairy tale figures and superstitious little stories. He suffers from diphtheria, and while he is having a visionary dream, Cinkekirály (Titmouse King) saves him from the claws of the magic Küsmödi. He expects his magic jacket to enable him to know everything at school without having studied.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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Krebsz, the God
Overview: The protagonist of this farce is the enthusiastic, bald, spectacled Krebsz, an employee at the Prime and Sample Institute. He alerts the whole village to organise a beauty contest in the weed-field of Balatonszutykos. Hoping to win the grand prize, the leading role in a two-hour colour-film, the girls make all efforts and use all their tricks.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1970-02-05
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Test Trip
Overview: Vetró János, the lorry driver, is an alcoholic. His marriage is in pieces, his wife has a lover. Their son suffers an accident. The next day his wife moves out. In his desperation, Vetró drinks even more, and leaves his work as well.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1961-02-16
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Penny
Overview: Kiskrajcár is a 1953 Hungarian film directed by Márton Keleti. It was entered into the 1954 Cannes Film Festival.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1953-11-15
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Bunny
Overview: A country family unbounds by the death of the head of family and they set off for a miners' town under construction, just like their forefathers, "to take the land". As an outpost, the eldest daughter, Anna is sent, who has a stormy past.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1963-08-22
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Merry-Go-Round
Overview: In a rural scenery in the throes of difficult changes lives a humble but promising young farmer girl called Mari Pataki. Her father forbids her from seeing the man she loves. The father, above all preoccupied by work on the fields and prospective wealth, decides to give his daughter in marriage to an old but rich man with whom he does business. Land marries land, he says. This seems to be the unyielding rule of the Hungarian peasantry. But the young lover is ready to stand up to any challenge to keep Maris love.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1956-02-02
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Rózsa Sándor
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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Öcsi, a sztár
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Genres: TV Movie Family
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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The Pregnant Papa
Overview: In the small village of Rátót, every male is called Béla. When a woman gives birth to her child, she names him Józsi...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1989-08-03
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Kojak in Budapest
Overview: Lt. Kojak arrives in Budapest as a guest speaker for the 'International Crime Writers Conference'. Soon after he starts enjoying the pleasures that the city has to offer, he assists his old friends at the police department with a case. The case involves solving the murder of a noted scientist, unaware that a Mafia hit man and his female companion are targeting him.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1980-06-05
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Military Band
Overview: Merry soldiers arrive in the sleepy Transdanubian town. The cynical woman-hunter, Ferdinándy, learns to know doctor Barlay's beautiful wife at a carnival. She lives a happy married life, and the attentions of the lieutenant are all in vain.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1961-09-28
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Gala Dinner
Overview: Varsa engineer receives the Kossuth award for his excellent work. His career once began at the family enterprise of his wife, so the woman invites her relatives for a dinner party.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1956-09-20
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The Sack
Overview: For the first time after 11 years, Simon, a young historian visits the village of his childhood at Balaton and Aunt Lina, his foster-mother. He gets upset by what he experiences there: the old woman's troublesome and vexing everydays, her quiet sadness. He is overwhelmed by his own memories, the death of his foster-father and by everything he was not aware of before, or he simply wanted to forget.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1966-04-15
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Georges Dandin
Overview: György Dandin, the rich bourgeois concludes a marriage contract with the noblemen Lükeházy couple who has turned poor: he can marry their daughter in return of a regular financial contribution. Angyalka escapes the undesired husband at their very first night, and furthermore she establishes a secret romantic relationship with Count Klitander who suits her a lot better.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1955-12-01
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A Bird of Heaven
Overview: Panni, coming from a landless family of ten and Miska have loved each other for a long time. The pretty Panni, however, has another suitor as well: Komáromi, the big farmer. The two men fight from time to time, but then, during the time Miska is serving his military duty, Panni marries Komáromi to end the tremendous squalor of her family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1958-03-20
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I'll Appeal to the Minister
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1962-02-15
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The Face
Overview: The film take place in Budapest, in the end of The World War II, telling the story of a young Communist who escaped from prison. The boy tries to revitalise his contact with the movement, but he is told to be quiet and wait.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1970-04-02
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Tales of a Long Journey
Overview: On the crowded train, the workers entertain each other by telling stories.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1962-03-02
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Wait a Sec!
Overview: This film shows us around a factory in the seventies in Hungary. In the outskirts factory of Kőbánya workers celebrate the foundation members and want to present the oldest member, Uncle Benda, now a pensioner, with a golden ring. His grandson, Karcsi Merkovics, an industrial apprentice, is in love with the foreman's daughter.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1973-11-15
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Face to Face
Overview: The members of a rifle-corps unit gather in a village by the western border
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-01-01
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Battle in Peace
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Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-01-01
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The Silent File
Overview: This detective story about three women who humiliate men.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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A Certain Major Benedek
Overview: On the eve of World War II, Major Benedek Zoltán is an embodiment of the service regulations in the army. He only discloses his feelings towards Anna, his brother's widow. An investigation is conducted in the regiment to identify Communists.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1960-06-08
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The Accent
Overview: An adult educator arrives in the small-town factory with loads of books, energy and a freshly received diploma. The honest young man with dreamy eyes humanises the life of the plant, in a way distributing himself among people.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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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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Love Travelling a Coach
Overview: The top management of the co-operative in the rural community at Lake Balaton goes on coaches everywhere to irritate Mrs. Peczöli, the snobbish wife of the only individual farmer. Peczöli would readily join the co-operative, should it not oppose his apple improving experiments.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1955-01-01
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Legenda a nyúlpaprikásról
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1975-11-27
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Rab ember fiai
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1979-07-18
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Anna Szabó
Overview: A female worker in Socialist Hungary gains the acceptance of her male colleagues.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1949-12-02
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Nyugati övezet
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Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1952-01-24
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Hit and Run
Overview: Judge Csanádi András makes a confession to his boss one night: he fell in love with the pretty, modern driver woman, Zenthe Judit in a fencing room. The girl suddenly returned his feelings. One night she confessed to him crying: she hit someone. The case was assigned to Csanádi, who wanted to investigate the circumstances meticulously despite his feelings. Thus the so far hidden life of Judit, which is bound to the past former world and its values is now highlighted. He is confused, asks his boss to absolve him from the assignment, but refuses to do so. Csanádi realises in the court room: Judit kept on telling lies, she played the lover for her own interest. The judge passed his crisis, he will deliver a fair sentence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1955-09-14
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A Strange Mark of Identity
Overview: Imre, secretary of the illegal communist party arrives in Budapest secretly in 1942, in order to start the newspaper of the party in the fight against war. Not even his own mother can see him.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-10-13
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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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János Háry
Overview: The triumphant adventures of the Hungarian baron Münchausen are recounted in the form of a musical.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1965-01-01
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A Sunday Romance
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1957-03-03
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Raid
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1958-08-18
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The House Under the Rocks
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1959-01-15
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Pár lépés a határ
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1959-11-26
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Virrad
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1960-03-10
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The Brigade No. 39
Overview: 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.
Genres: History
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1959-03-19
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Dreams of Love
Overview: This is a romantic biographical film about Franz Liszt. In a distinguished saloon of Paris, the unknown composer, Liszt, defeats the renown Thalberg at a piano competition. Through his playing, he wins the favours and later the hand of the countess D'Agoult. A daughter is born in their marriage, Cosima. Liszt is better and better known, Marie introduces him to the circle of artists.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1970-10-22
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Our Kid
Overview: Kölyök, this lovely, ham-handed young woman, has caused many a trouble already in the Dunaújváros Iron Works. Fortunately, however, the manager does not want to give her up, what is more, Kölyök found a second father even at the police.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-01-01
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