János Rajz
Also Known As: Янош Райз
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]
Adult: No
Birthday: February 12, 1907
Age: 118 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: July 20, 1981
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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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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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12 is a dozen
Overview: Three short stories around the number 12. A postman, a taxi driver and a photo developer connected to 12 on different ways.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1974-06-05
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Guns and Doves
Overview: 1920 in a mining town in the country-side. The team of children led by Ferkó Boda fish guns and a flag of Red soldiers out of the local lake.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1961-09-13
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Story of My Foolishness
Overview: The celebrated actor considers his wife a nitwits actress of a mediocre talent. But an influential playwright, a friend of theirs, has written a play with the main role designed for her, Kati, particularly. Its title is "The Most Intelligent Woman in the World". On the day of the first night performance Kati recalls their past, the times she had together with her husband.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1966-01-20
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Sons of the Stone-Hearted Man
Overview: Based on the novel of Mór Jókai. During the Hungarian independence war 1848-49 mother and her three sons trying to leave the road precisely designated by their conservative, stone-hearted father. The way-seeking and rivalry of brothers, Jókai's masterpiece, the cast, delightful scenes give an unforgettable experience.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1965-04-01
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Pesti erkölcsök
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1970-01-01
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Bolondgombák
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Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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That Lovely Green Grass
Overview: Misu is spending his summer holiday in an old block of flats in Budapest. The caretaker of the house, Poldi, a park attendant by occupation, is going to retire in a few days and he is afraid to think ahead of the years to come without grass and trees. An idea comes to Misu to spend the summer in an active way. He organises a working party to sod the inner court of the block of flats they live in. To achieve his plan, he has to make alliances with some people and to win the opponent to the idea, namely Kamilla, an insurance consultant. Their assistants in this mission will be the dustman and the coal deliverer and Piroska, a girl spending her holyday at Kamilla's.
Genres: Adventure Family Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1979-12-20
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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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Dollar Daddy
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1956-05-17
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Az ember melegségre vágyik
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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The Toth Family
Overview: The Toth family resides in Northern Hungary. The couple has a daughter and a son, the latter a member of the armed forces. When his weary major is ordered to take a vacation, the son talks him into a visit to his family home. Comedy ensues when the Toths go overboard trying to make things pleasant for the visiting major in hopes of an easier life for their son the soldier.
Genres: Drama War Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1969-11-29
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New Gilgames
Overview: The story recalling the spirit of Gilgamesh, the Sumerian king quarrelling with his approaching death, takes place in a cancer hospital in Budapest. Dávid, the young ethnography scientist resigned to his lot and is indifferent to his approaching death. His specialist reckons, however, that such a searching and stubborn mind with thorough knowledge of the nature of his own illness, will be able to fight death.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-03-02
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Rabbits in the Cloak-Room
Overview: The bitter film grotesque focuses on a Socialist Mafioso. Vágó, the enthusiastic young propagandist is put up at Apuka (Daddy) of the outskirts, Dávid. In the hands of Apuka everything becomes money and he skilfully avoids inspection and controls. In order to help his little family, he sells his rabbit husbandry as mutton, he practises usury on and blackmails his tenants, their rooms are operated as cigar stores.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1971-07-08
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Nehéz kesztyük
Overview: Laci Ács the two-time Olympic champion boxer suffers his first defeat on an international tour that his coach was heavily against. After a tough period he starts working hard to get back into the ring, win back the coach's trust and win his third gold at the Olympics. Starring real three-time Olympic gold medalist boxing legend László Papp.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1957-01-01
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The Spell
Overview: Igéző portrays the life of the unsociable stranger , András, who arrives at the place of his exile and slowly makes friends with Miska, the charcoal-burner.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1970-02-23
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Az attasé lánya
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Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1963-08-08
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A Strictly Private Affair
Overview: The young engineer and the pretty economist of a commercial company, on assignment in the country together, after having consumed quite a few glasses of brandy, wake up in bed together. As both live a happy family life, they wish to forget their passing adventure, but gossiping starts up around them.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1964-11-30
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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 Empire Gone With A Sneeze
Overview: The tyrannical king is afraid of his people. He can only find peace if everyone wishes him well when he sneezes. Catchpoles raid the country and give orders what the king wants.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1956-03-02
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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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Iron Flower
Overview: During the worldwide Depression of the 1930s, a young shopgirl is in love with a man of her own financial class, but succumbs to the seductive machinations of her wealthy boss.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1958-05-01
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Two Confessions
Overview: This easy-to-take Hungarian drama is also known as Two Wishes. The prinicipal characters are a pair of juvenile delinquents, who may still be redeemable. The sullen duo is befriended by a kindly police inspector, who takes it upon himself to straighten out the boys. What follows cannot be termed surprsingly or innovative, though it is immensely satisfying. Of interest is the fact that a Communist-bloc film would admit to a delinquency problem in the so-called Worker's Paradise. Ket Vallomas was the Hungarian entry in the 1957 Cannes Film Festival.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1957-03-21
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Age of Illusions
Overview: Jancsi is part of a closely knit gang of young engineers. They see the older engineers as mediocre, and have grand ideas about developing new inventions together. With changing living conditions the five friends start to grow apart. At a party Jancsi suddenly meets Éva Halk. They fall in love, and find common memories in the engagement in The Pioneer Railway at the age of 12.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1965-02-11
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Palacsintás király
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Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1973-12-19
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Mocorgó
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1969-01-12
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May Song
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1959-10-05
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Lady-Killer in Trouble
Overview: Captain Kovács investigates the case of a taxi driver who was knocked down and later he disappeared without leaving a trace. Responding the call of the police six women present themselves: they all confess to be the fiancée of the driver.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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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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Love on Thursday
Overview: Éva and Árpi are married, but have no home on their own. On Thursdays, they meet in Árpi's long vehicle. Renting a room from a head tenant would be too expensive. The ad of an old lady found in a newspaper, in which she offers a room free of charge to the person who finds her lost parrot, comes in handy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1959-01-01
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The Last Adventure of Don Juan
Overview: Don Juan, the seducer, is cursed by the governor of Seville: he can only live until a woman rejects him. Thanks to this curse, Don Juan has been living in bliss for 400 years when he arrives in Budapest. Of course, in the new city he chooses a new girl to conquer, Kata Lukacs. The experienced heartthrob used all tricks and tricks, but it seems that none of this has an effect on Kata.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1958-12-11
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Extinguished Flames
Overview: 1790, the county of Szerém. József Hajnóczy, a democrat and a reformer is deprived of his position as vice-steward of the county because he is not born a nobleman.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1956-01-01
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The Naked Diplomat
Overview: Félix, a somewhat clod-hopping young man, finds himself in the Grand Hotel of Little Lagonda, barefooted and in pyjamas. He is soon followed by a hooded, fat and leggy gangster. This is all the more strange as the hotel is under quarantine with the pretext of a plague-epidemic, in order to make it a suitable ground for the negotiations of certain oil-companies.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1963-01-01
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Ten Thousand Days
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1967-06-08
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Dióbél királyfi
Overview: Animated adaptation of the tale by Ferenc Móra in which the old king, on the advice of his long-serving shepherd, arranges an archery competition to decide which of his three sons will inherit the crown. The competitors have to hit the centre of a copper penny on which there is the image of the old king.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1963-01-01
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Springtime in Budapest
Overview: At Christmas Eve in 1944 the runaway Pintér and Gozsó get through the Soviet blockade around Budapest. Pintér intends to hide in a flat abandoned by his own relatives, but he finds his relatives called the Turnovszkys, who are hiding the Jewish Jutka as well. Love unfolds between Zoltán and Jutka.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1955-04-02
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Lily Boy
Overview: 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.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1955-02-24
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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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Leila and Gábor
Overview: Buda is mastered by the Turks. Student Gábor and his companion flee a troop into the castle, just in the garden of Gül Baba. Gábor and Leila, the daughter of Gül Baba fall in love with each other. Ali pasha, who wants to marry the girl, has the two Hungarians caught in order to let them be executed.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-08-22
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The bridge of life
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1956-01-19
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Yesterday
Overview: October, 1956. Colonel lieutenant Szabó sends a platoon with the mission of calming the people demonstrating in the town. The platoon is lined up under the command of Lieutenant Csendes and the soldiers aim at the demonstrators. Szusza Kis changes sides, and Csendes is unable to shoot at his childhood mate. They withdraw.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1959-08-18
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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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Sleepless Years
Overview: The "sleepless years" in this propaganda piece by director Felix Marlassy occur on Csepel Island, an island south of Budapest that is home to an armaments factory. The factory workers are shown being exploited by imperialists, capitalists gone berserk, and fascists, more or less in that exact chronological sequence. The heavy-handed approach does much to undercut the belief that when socialism finally takes over, the lives of the workers are brought up to a human level. In this instance, audiences might prefer a more nuanced and subtle statement, no matter what the message.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1959-01-21
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A Window on the Sky
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-01-01
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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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Három csillag
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Genres: War Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1960-03-31
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A Lad on White Horse
Overview: "Don't give up your dream" - this is how Demjén Ferenc's song goes and Gyuri darts along the endless fields on a white horse. The young crane-operator lives in a small larder-room, where he has to hang his chair on the wall and the tap drips. He has to share his mornings with his two dream "man-hunters", his father and his brother, who feel that he does not belong to them because of his desires and ambitions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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Csoszogi, az öreg suszter
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Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1973-12-25
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