János Koltai
Also Known As: Koltai János, Янош Колтаи
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Budapest, Hungary
Adult: No
Birthday: June 08, 1935
Age: 89 years old
Gender: Male
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Cantata
Overview: A young doctor undergoes a spiritual crisis when he returns to his rural home.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1963-02-28
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No Love, Please
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1965-12-02
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Grotesque
Overview: Huszárik's graduation film was another short entitled Groteszk (Grotesque) in 1963 about a strange train voyage of an artist carrying his own picture.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1963-01-01
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Tök az adu
Overview: A barber goes for a walk on an average Sunday morning, and end up winning an other guy's wife on card.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1967-04-01
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A Hungarian Nabob 2: Karpathy Zoltan
Overview: On the novel by Mór Jókai. The first half of the XVIII century. Several decades of life of a noble family Karpati.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1966-12-22
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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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Dead Landscape
Overview: This Hungarian film chronicles the slow deterioration in the life of Juli, a farmer's wife. As the countryside grows ever more deserted because people are moving to towns or large collective farms, she spends more and more time alone. Despite her best efforts to appreciate her situation, her despair grows. The loneliness is briefly interrupted when she and her husband take in an old woman and care for her, but the woman dies. Shortly after her son visits, she is killed in an accident which may have been a suicide. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1972-04-06
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The Myth-Makers
Overview: Eighteen years after the failure of the revolution and freedom fighting 1848-49, the politicians of Hungary preparing for a compromise with Austria try to make use of the symbol of the revolution, the figure of the poet Petőfi Sándor, to their own advantage. They visit all the memorial sites, find the witnesses and recall the famous events. Memories and political intentions conflict with each other, and the circumstances of the poet's death cannot be reconstructed entirely.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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Blindfold
Overview: The scene is Ukraine. In 1943, after the Hungarian' defeat at the river Don, soldier Balogh decides to visit his family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1974-08-11
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Judgement
Overview: The film is a historic parable about the topicality of revolution. 1514. The peasants' uprising is over, Dózsa has been arrested. Werbőczy tries to get the imprisoned peasant leader deny the revolution and offers him the lives of his people in exchange.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1970-04-16
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The Lost Paradise
Overview: Sebők Zoltán, the brain surgeon, performed a secret abortion on his lover and the woman died. The man waiting for the autopsy (and his arrest) escapes to his father's villa at Lake Balaton.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1962-08-12
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Baptism
Overview: A 40-year-old sculptor returns home to witness the baptism of his young nephew. His return prompts a series of flashbacks to his youth and the political upheaval experienced by his family and friends.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1968-04-01
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The Round-Up
Overview: After the failure of the Kossuth's revolution of 1848, people suspected of supporting the revolution are sent to prison camps. Years later, partisans led by outlaw Sándor Rózsa still run rampant. Although the authorities do not know the identities of the partisans, they round up suspects and try to root them out by any means necessary.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1966-01-06
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Late Season
Overview: Kerekes (Antal Pager) believes he is wanted by the police when his friends play a practical joke in this unusual comedy drama. He returns to his hometown where he was accused of turning a Jewish druggist and the druggist's wife over to the Nazis. With his friends following him, Kerekes tries to find out what became of the couple after they were deported. After being subjected to a mock trial by his friends -- and found guilty -- Kerekes becomes despondent and attempts to kill himself. Flashbacks and hallucinations are employed to tell this story that occurs during the Eichmann trial. Both the film and Antal Pager gained some unwanted publicity when a Variety article from April 23rd, 1967 accused Pager of being a Nazi collaborator for his role in an anti-Semitic film during World War II.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1967-02-23
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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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Randevú Budapesten
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1989-03-01
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The Valley
Overview: Five deserters hide in a village inhabited only by women.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1968-02-08
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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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My Way Home
Overview: In the aftermath of World War II, a Hungarian teenager, captured by Soviet troops, forms an unlikely bond with a Russian soldier in a remote prison camp.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1965-01-14
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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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A múmia közbeszól
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Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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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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Silence and Cry
Overview: Set during a turbulent era of disquiet, fear, persecution and terror, which permeates every corner of post-WWI Hungarian society. In 1919, after just a few months of communist rule the Hungarian Republic of Councils falls victim to a nationalist counter-revolution. Admiral Horthy, leader of the nationalist far right movement, becomes the self-proclaimed regent of Hungary, and assumes power as the legal Head of State. Soldiers of the short-lived Hungarian Red Army are now on the run from relentless secret policemen and patrol units of the nationalist Royal Gendarme. If caught, ex-Red Army soldiers are executed without mercy or proper trial. István Cserzi, a former soldier of the Red Army has fled to the Great Hungarian Plains and has taken refuge on a farm, which is run by two sympathetic women.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1968-06-12
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A komp
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1962-01-01
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Agnus Dei
Overview: Allegory of the suppression of the 1919 revolution and the advent of fascism in Hungary; in the countryside, a unit of the revolutionary army spares the life of father Vargha, a fanatical priest. He comes back and leads massacres. A new force, represented by Feher, apparently avenges the people, but only to impose a different, more refined and effective kind of repression.
Genres: History War
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1971-04-22
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Hungarians
Overview: A group of landless Hungarian peasants accept work as migrant-laborers on a farm in northern Germany where the wages are good, and the wives and family are allowed to accompany them. Though it is in the midst of World War II, they are relatively well-off. However, they glimpse the treatment accorded to POWs and others who are not so gently treated, and at the conclusion of the year's harvest, they choose to return to Hungary and are quickly swept up in the tides of war. This film is part of a series of films by award-winning, well-respected director Zoltan Fabri who devoted much time and effort chronicling the struggle against fascism.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1978-06-22
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Hungarian Passion
Overview: The film, taking place in 1950, presents the story of Father Leopold and the monks of his order struggling to once again revive Christianity in a country trying to scrape itself together after the war. Initially, the communist powers do not hinder their work, and the Church was even able to regain possession of holy objects hidden during the war. This "peaceful" state does not last long. Father Leopold is arrested on trumped up charges, and in order to break him, he is subjected to cruel torture. His former student, Lieutenant Keller, who turned his back on religion and now believes in the socialist system, is appointed - upon the command of Major Fyodorov - to extract a confession of guilt. But the Father's perseverance and resistance changes everything.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 2021-11-04
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