István Sztankay
Also Known As: Иштван Станкаи
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Budapest, Hungary
Adult: No
Birthday: February 14, 1936
Age: 89 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: September 12, 2014
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Májusi fagy
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1962-02-01
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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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Dragon and Slippers
Overview: Queen Guinevere sadly complains to her beloved handmaiden Peggy that her husband, King Arthur, has neglected her for years. The King spends all his time on the platform of the knight's tower or at the famous 'round table'. The women figure that only the good old wizard Merlin can help. Merlin sends Guinevere a powerful magic potion that will help her win back Arthur's love. The ladies bake the potion into a pudding, but it is accidentally eaten by Arthur's favorite knight, Lancelot. To complicate matters, Peggy is in love with Lancelot, but the knight's overdose of magic causes him to fall madly in love with the queen.
Genres: Animation Fantasy Family Adventure
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1990-12-20
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Rolling on the Road Roller
Overview: Józsi, a sailor who once traveled the world, dock worker and stable boy lives in the small village of Nyírmadocsa. From here he sets out to find a road roller for his small village, so that at last there will be a real road in the village. When Józsi, far from his beloved homeland, gets the engine, he sets off on an adventurous journey, roaring through Hungary towards his small reseda smelling village.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1977-01-29
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Másfél millió
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1964-10-29
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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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A Cloudless Vacation
Overview: Péter and Pál, two notorious skirt hunters competing in wooing Oana, a pretty Romanian girl on the beach at Tihany. A couple of days later the girl gets a telegram saying that she has to leave for Bucharest immediately. The party - which has increased with Piri, the interpreter, and Ági, the hitch-hiker - gets to a Romanian village by Peter's ramshackle car, a 1921 Colymne. The car, however, breaks down.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1968-05-09
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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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Dialogue
Overview: The film depicts the period between 1945-60 through the life of a communist couple. Barna Judit, just released from a concentration camp and Horváth László, with an illegal past are brought together by the communist movement. They study and make plans together in the hope of a future that will make sense. The marriage they just entered, however, gets ruined soon by the events of history.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1963-04-22
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The Fake "Isabella"
Overview: Végh Márta, the teacher is looking for her student Vadász Ica in the Buda villa, but she only finds the tenant, Mrs. Paár - dead. The investigation reveals that Mrs. Paár was murdered for an invaluable stamp, the "Fake Isabella".
Genres: Crime
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1968-06-05
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Miss Windbag
Overview: Éva, the pretty housekeeper is preparing to take an entrance exam at the Faculty of Law. In addition to this, she also has energy to arrange the day-to-day matters of the committee of tenants. Soon, she discovers that her beauty and cocksure behaviour finds its way not only at the exam, but in the mazes of bureaucracy, too. She helps get trade licences, flat allocations, and shop premises for those in need.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-09-19
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Gréti - A Dog's Notes
Overview: Gréti, a German shepherd, searches for her missing puppy.
Genres: Animation Drama Adventure
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1986-03-05
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A körtvélyesi csíny
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Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1995-04-05
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Return Ticket
Overview: Five old men and a kid are travelling in a train's cabin without purpose. They travel because it's free and they don't have another place to stay. From their conversations we learn the tragedies of their lives. Also the hidden interlockings of their faith will out slowly.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1997-09-18
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A hiba nem az almában van
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Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1981-02-21
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Süsü, a sárkány kalandjai
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Genres: Family Fantasy Music
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1977-12-24
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The Master Criminal
Overview: Lohmann's son is kidnapped. The un-known kidnappers get a thirty-thousand-jewel from the West German millionaire as ransom. The eager police lieutenant-colonel, Gálffy finds that the traces lead to a mysterious, elegant blonde, who is naturally a brunette.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1969-09-05
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Do You Know Sunday-Monday?
Overview: Juli is a 17-year-old student who takes a summer job in a local chemical factory. She is befriended by Piri, a girl with an unsavory reputation who has worked there before. The two friends are ogled by male workers who have overactive libidos and imaginations. Juli spurns the advances of a deluded Romeo while Piri continues to work and endure open hostility from the older female workers while her slothful parents sink deeper into alcoholism.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1969-08-14
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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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Palm Sunday
Overview: Epic recalling the early days of the Republic of the councils.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1969-12-11
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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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A Galant Story
Overview: It is the story of Bálint Balassi , the poet and warrior. The scene is Hungary at the end of the 16th century. The soldiers stationed at the castles of Hungary's border defence-system spend their days with anti-Turkish raids, hunting and womanising.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1970-09-24
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The Land of Promise
Overview: At the beginning of the 50s, Jani, the young pitman, goes to work to a new mine. To his disappointment, he is only employed as a trammer. After lengthy disputes he manages to get to the post he desires.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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A Bright Star at the Stake
Overview: This film takes place in Paris and Geneva in the 1530s and 1550s. Kálvin János and Szervét Mihály are school mates in Paris. The university students celebrate the victory of the Reformation with Kálvin's "Institution", written under a pseudonym.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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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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Erdély Aranykora
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Genres: History
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1989-02-01
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Egy, kettő, három
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Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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Férfiarckép
Overview: A grey-haired man walks through the fields. Fatigued, but with the same tenacity he roams the roads, the pathways, the tracks every day, medical bag in hand. Everyone awaits him: desperate or in hope, to the dying or to the woman in labour. He is the local GP. In fact, he is film director Imre Gyöngyössy’s father, the protagonist of one of his first short films. The personal narration based on the director’s poem is made complete by the pictures of Sándor Sára and István Gaál who were also active at Balázs Béla Studio at that time.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1967-11-30
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Így írtok ti
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Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1994-09-29
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