Károly Kovács
Also Known As: Карой Ковач
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Mezõszilas, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]
Adult: No
Birthday: January 19, 1902
Age: 123 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: December 10, 1990
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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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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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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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Sweet Anna
Overview: The young maid, Anna starts to work for the noble Vizy family. Mrs Vizy is proud of the hard-working servant but doesnt treat her well. Her nephew seduces Anna with sweet words, but when leaves her as soon as she gets pregnant. The humiliations of Anna finally lead to a tragic ending.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1958-11-06
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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.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1959-08-18
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Budapest Tales
Overview: "Budapest Tales" is about a group of people (consisting of Szabo regular Andras Balint along with Ildiko Bansagi and Karoly Kovacs) who find a broken down tram while trying to go to the city. The people band together and try to get the tram back on the train tracks and head towards the city. Along this journey the passengers encounter many people who join them on the tram. What started out as only a handful of people has now turned into a small village. As the people travel on to the city each person takes on certain roles and through the course of time these roles will change. Some people fall in love, others out of love, and a few even die. But life goes on. The people keep the tram going hoping to reach Budapest.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1977-03-02
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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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Adventure
Overview: In 1940 Budapest, a successful doctor leads a perfect life, unaware that his wife and his adopted son are planning to run away together.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 2011-10-20
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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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Off the Range
Overview: A comedy about a group of children who are spending summer vacation alone in the nature.
Genres: Comedy Family Adventure
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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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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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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Due cuori
Overview: An employee embezzles a sum belonging to the company where he works and loses it by making a wrong speculation. The employee's sister asks her fiancé for the dough so she can save her brother from shame. The fiancé refuses; then the girl decides to confront the director of the company to explain everything to him.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1943-06-03
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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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Two Girls on the Street
Overview: Two girls run away from a small village. Gyöngyi comes from an aristocratic family and her father throws her out of the house when he discovers she has gotten pregnant out of wedlock. She finds herself wandering the streets of Budapest and earns money playing the violin in a restaurant. Vica is an orphaned peasant; she is afraid of her stepfather and moves to the city where she gets a job on a construction site. Gyöngyi and Vica meet on the streets of Budapest, move in together and turn their lives around.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1939-10-03
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A vigyori
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Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1968-09-01
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One Day More or Less
Overview: Baradla Géza, war criminal, returns after 25 years, with his ex-accomplice, Obrád Simon, to the village where he burned houses with people inside and executed partisans. The ex squad-leader is chased to this place by his "heroic deed" and the memory of his love. Like a maniac, he wants to forgive the village residents for having killed six of his soldiers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1973-04-05
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The Man of Gold
Overview: Adaptation of Mór Jókai's classic 19th century novel on Mihály Tímár, the captain of a commercial Danube ship in the 1830s, who finds unexpected fortune by meeting a Turkish aristocrat fleeing from his home country with his daughter Tímea. On their journey, they find an unknown island on the Danube, called the Senki szigete (the Island of No-one), a sort of earthly paradise, with only an old woman and her young daughter Noémi living on it.
Genres: Romance Drama History
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1962-12-13
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Fourteen Lives
Overview: September 1952 in a mine in Northern-Hungary after an explosion water breaks in from the neighbouring shaft and fourteen miners become trapped. The whole country unites to save them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1954-09-02
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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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Kényszerszinglik
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 2014-01-01
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Miért beszél annyit Mrs. Piper?
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Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1967-02-01
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Mocorgó
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1969-01-12
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25 Fireman's Street
Overview: On one hot summer night, the residents of a Hungarian apartment house slated for demolition restlessly revisit their haunted pasts as they face an uncertain future. In a gently turning kaleidoscope of dream imagery, regret-laden nostalgia and painstakingly intimate detail, the looming wrecking ball pales in significance to the accumulated experiences each dreamer revisits. Pre-war prejudice, occupying Nazis and Stalinist deprivations all come and go as each tenant’s backward glance yields moments of aching sensuality, infectious exuberance and catastrophic loss.
Genres: Drama Romance History
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1973-09-27
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The Immortal Legionary
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1971-10-09
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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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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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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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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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Confidence
Overview: Janos and Kata are thrown together during the Second World War and forced to pose as husband and wife to hide from the Nazis. The intensity and suffocating intimacy of their new relationship and the circumstances in which they find themselves, forces them to confront past prejudices and assumptions and challenge what they truly believe.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1980-01-10
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Six Weeks of Happiness
Overview: Gábor Bozsó is a professional burglar. His daughter Éva, who knows nothing about her father's profession, is raised in an upscale institution. When she falls in love with one of her father's victims, things take a big change.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1939-11-23
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Pénz beszél
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1940-01-01
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Egy gép nem tért vissza
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1943-01-01
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Together
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1943-01-01
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The Song of Rákóczi
Overview: Dressed as a gypsy woman, Krisztinka Oltay spies, organizes, and takes measures to help Prince Rákóczi and free his lover, Péter Szakmáry. Péter was taken in by his brother, who was loyal to the emperor, and he wants to execute him in Kassa together with the other Kurucs. Krisztinka inspires the tired kuruc troops with a song and Rákóczi's music to capture Kassa and free the prisoners...
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1943-11-24
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Love and Money
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1960-01-01
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A gyáva
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1971-10-22
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