János Derzsi
Also Known As: Derzsi János, János Dersi, Janos Derzsi
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Nyírábrány, Hungary
Adult: No
Birthday: April 20, 1954
Age: 71 years old
Gender: Male
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Hadik
Overview: During the Seven Years War, Austrian Queen Maria Theresa sends her best general, András Hadik and his Hussars to raid Berlin and humiliate the Prussian King, Frederick the Great.
Genres: History Adventure Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 2023-03-19
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A Fond Farewell to the Prince
Overview: 1629, Transylvania: Reigning prince Bethlen Gábor has Don Diego, the Spanish chronicle knight be brought to his court in order to make him record his life and deeds for posterity.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Keleti Pu.
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Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 2010-05-19
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Temptations
Overview: Directed, written, and co-produced by Zoltan Kamondi), Kisertesek ("Temptations") illustrates the struggle between ancient traditions and the modern world of restless young Marci (Marcell Miklos), a fatherless young man who is considered somewhat of an outcast within the community.
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Original Language: hu
Release Date: 2002-02-11
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Pile-Up
Overview: After a mass-collision in the morning rush, people from different backgrounds are forced to directly interact with each other.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 2009-01-01
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Az Út Végén
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Original Language: hu
Release Date: 2022-03-11
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Dog's Night Song
Overview: A priest arrives in a village and give advice and comfort to different people. He meets a wheelchair-bound former representative of the Communist party, a woman who is dying of tuberculosis and an astronomer who sings in a punk band.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1983-11-04
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Wrong-doers
Overview: The second in command of a group of highwaymen, the only ones left of Hungary's freedom fighters in the late 17th century, has a wife who really, really wants him to come home and stop gallivanting around the countryside. The only way he can figure to do this is to inform on the group to the authorities in as harmless a manner as possible. Unfortunately, these betrayals cause the group to lose many men, and the traitor grows fearful of the authorities. He gives officials every scrap of information he has in return for a full pardon, and he returns home. His wife, when she hears of these events, is infuriated. Such betrayal is far in excess of anything she can condone, and she kills him. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1979-08-02
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Magyar lapát
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 2020-03-09
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The Darkest Hour
Overview: A writer in self-exile is haunted by the memory of his long-lost love. Mysterious events and an unexpected visitor are about to offer him a chance to relieve his pain. Based on the famous poem of Edgar Allan Poe: The Raven.
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 2018-10-20
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Indian
Overview: Dreaming about the Wild West in the 1970s in Eastern Europe is not enough...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 2016-03-30
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Macbeth
Overview: In this powerful film, the renowned William Shakespeare play is stripped down to the bare essentials, consisting of two lengthy shots.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1982-03-16
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The Man from London
Overview: A switchman at a seaside railway witnesses a murder but does not report it after he finds a suitcase full of money at the scene of the crime.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 2007-05-23
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Autumn Almanac
Overview: In this dense setting, the inhabitants of a large, claustrophobic apartment reveal their darkest secrets, fears, obsessions and hostilities.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1984-08-15
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Hourglass
Overview: A story of a Jewish-Hungarian-Serbian family. The plot is centered about trying of an adult son to reconstruct his childhood dream of and memories. Looms, but a sunken world, the central European town with its figures, the way to experiencing deep and see a sensitive boy, his father, who by their fears that penetrate to the bone and the final humiliation of acting madness escapes and becomes a lonely, pathetic buffoon in the drama of life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 2007-10-02
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Twilight
Overview: In the dense and murky woodlands of provincial Hungary, the search for a child murderer drags a once-respected detective into an all-consuming obsession enshrouded by irresolution and despair, even long after he has been taken off the case. What emerges is not a crime story, but a harrowing venture through the darkness of the human soul.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1990-09-28
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Satantango
Overview: Inhabitants of a small village in Hungary deal with the effects of the fall of Communism. The town's source of revenue, a factory, has closed, and the locals, who include a doctor and three couples, await a cash payment offered in the wake of the shuttering. Irimias, a villager thought to be dead, returns and, unbeknownst to the locals, is a police informant. In a scheme, he persuades the villagers to form a commune with him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1994-02-08
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The Turin Horse
Overview: A monumental windstorm and an abused horse's refusal to work or eat signal the beginning of the end for a poor farmer and his daughter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 2011-03-31
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A Long Weekend in Pest and Buda
Overview: Iván is living in exile from Hungary when he receives word that an old flame is ill. His return to Budapest rekindles old memories and reopens old wounds.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 2003-11-13
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Hasutasok
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 2006-03-08
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Passion
Overview: A woman and her lover plot to kill her older husband.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1998-10-22
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Heavenly Hosts
Overview: When hunting, Zrínyi Miklós finds an Angel with a broken wing. He takes him for a heavenly message and carries him to his castle for cure. Lords and priests come to Zrínyi's court, one after the other, to see Angel. The occasion is appropriate for the ban to win them over to his plan: they should unite their forces to fight for the country's independence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1983-11-17
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Halo of Stars
Overview: Set against the backdrop of a small traveling circus, a European clown and his 5-year-old daughter lead each other through the everyday mysteries of love, magic and loss. Based on the long poem “The Clown” by Anthony Lucero.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
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Hunting for Englishmen
Overview: 1839. The discontented noblemen assemble at the country estate of count Gábor Falussy, on the pretext of a boar hunt. Also an English engineer arrives for the sake of constructing the railway line leading up to the count’s quarry.
Genres: History
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 2006-11-30
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Laurin
Overview: In a small port town at the end of the 19th century children are disappearing. A mysterious man in black who stalks the town may be Death itself. And nine-year-old Laurin is suffering terrifying dreams and hallucinations of a man carrying a sack and frightened children calling for help from behind closed windows.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Horror Mystery
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1989-11-30
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Tabló
Overview: Karcsi, a Roma policeman, lives with Eva, a Swede. One day he is called to the scene of the murder of a wealthy trafficker named Schulter. He begins to investigate the crime, interrogate neighbours and suspects, and untangle a complex situation - one that he, himself, complicates even further. For he is a gypsy, who despite being adopted and raised by "regular" Hungarians, has his nose rubbed in his minority status every day. The film, which is based on the novel by Ákos Kertész, is a shrewd genre work full of dusky humour and surreal situations. Tabló follows a vivid succession of strange images that eventually lead to the emergence of the central story about a charismatic police officer on a tireless quest for the truth, though he must fight against virtually everyone and is just as fallible as the next person. Tabló makes a statement on the issue of race and racism - or, indeed, relations between any minority and majority.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 2008-09-18
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Werckmeister Harmonies
Overview: A naive young man witnesses an escalation of violence in his small hometown following the arrival of a mysterious circus attraction.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 2001-02-01
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Tarr Béla: I Used to Be a Filmmaker
Overview: A documentary about the making of The Turin Horse, the last film directed by Hungarian master Béla Tarr.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2014-04-15
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Blind Endeavour
Overview: Blind luck ties the fate of two people together.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1985-11-30
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Csudafilm
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 2005-01-27
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Father's Acre
Overview: Love makes a bad relationship between father and son all the more rancorous in this drama from Hungarian director Viktor Oszkar Nagy. A convict (Janos Derzsi) returns home after a long stretch in prison to a less than enthusiastic welcome; his son (Tamas Ravasz), now in his late teens, was left to fend for himself and tend the family farm on his own after his dad went away, and the youngster blames his father for his mother's untimely death. The father wants to mend his relationship with his son, but the young man makes no secret of his contempt for his dad, and only grudgingly allows him back on the farm.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 2009-01-01
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Wall Driller
Overview: The sad tale of a proletarian malcontent ensconced in a monstrously depressing housing project who—even less effectually than the heroes of Bald-Dog Rock—attempts to change his life. Purchasing a power drill and slinging it across his shoulder like the anti-hero of a spaghetti western, he turns entrepreneur, boring holes in his neighbors’ walls so that they can hang mirrors or pictures.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1986-02-13
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White God
Overview: 13 year old Lili fights to protect her dog Hagen, and is devastated when her father sets Hagen free on the streets. Still innocently believing love can conquer any difficulty, Lili sets out to save her dog. Failing in his desperate efforts to find his beloved owner, Hagen joins a canine revolt leading a revolution against their human abusers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 2014-06-12
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Dolina
Overview: Gabriel Ventuza lives the peaceful life of a herbalist, growing and cultivating medical herbs in Italy. One day he receives an order from his older brother who is just out of prison for one day. Gabriel should go to the remote little town of Bogdanski Dolina in Far-Eastern Europe, the place of their childhood and take out the mortal remains of their father, the late people smuggler, the famous Victor Ventuza. Gabriel leaves his "eventless" life behind and goes to accomplish his mission. He is robbed on the way, his belongings, passport, money and even his clothes are stolen and finds himself in a small closed town surrounded by hills of stinking toxic waste, where strange priests rule and fear keeps people quiet, producing a general atmosphere of insecurity.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 2007-10-25
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Narcissus and Psyche
Overview: Narcisus and Psyche is based on a novel by Sandor Weores which was adapted by Vilmos Csaplar and director Gabor Body for a feature-length film. Borrowing the character of Psyche from mythology and placing her in Europe in the 19th century, the authors give her a "modern" life. She is an attractive young woman - and remains so throughout the film, in spite of one hardship after another. Psyche is libidinous, and her prurient interests shock her staid contemporaries.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1980-12-22
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Fast and Loose
Overview: Margó and Ildi are good friends. Margó lives with her simple, conservative parents, her fiancé is a roadie, her lover has been in prison for two years. Ildi was a pupil of a reformatory school, she buried an Araba husband already and her Rumanian partner is living in Paris. She lives together with a Yugoslavian man in a rented flat. Both are models at the Scholl for Fine Arts, attend an evening school and earn their money by selling their bodies. The lover of Margó, Attila is suddenly released. Margó and Ildi want to get rid of him, but Attila does not let them do that...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1990-06-14
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Meteo
Overview: Eckermann (Laszlo Kistamas) is a listless computer whiz who spends most of his time lounging in a bathtub holding imaginary conversations with cartoon characters usually more popular with children than grownups. He has some friends who want to use his skills to steal some money from a local gambling joint. He works out a scheme for his friends and returns to his tub. At some point along the way, he is joined in the water by a lovely Czech refugee, who (perhaps inadvertently) makes it possible for him to die there.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Mystery
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1990-02-22
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Kontroll
Overview: A tale about a strange young man, Bulcsú, and the fellow ticket inspectors on his team who work aboard the subterranean Budapest Metro. A tale about racing along the tracks, and about a mysterious serial killer. And a tale about love.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 2003-11-20
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The Last Summer
Overview: Imre Horváth and his friends gather to celebrate his wife's birthday. They are confused because of the changes in the country's politics and want Horváth to be much more active politically, but he is more concerned about his affair with his best friend's daughter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1991-10-04
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Tolerance
Overview: The unskilled, jack-of-all-trades András and his wife, Éva are put in jail for serial work-place thefts, -committed in order to try to ensure a normal living standard for his family - and for aggravated assault committed for self-defence, respectively. Their two small children are put in state care, then given to foster parents. András, still in prison, commits everything to help the released Éva get hold of an apartment and get their children back so that when he will have served his term the family could be together again.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Dear Betrayed Friends
Overview: Andor Czettl, in his early sixties, visits the secret service archives one day to read into the reports about himself and discovers a shocking fact. His very best friend János Pásztor was an informer, spying on him and writing reports about him for decades. Sára Cserhalmi's first feature focuses not so much on the actual problem of informing and betrayal as on the contradictory relationship of the two protagonists. It avoids any final judgments. First and foremost, it seeks answers to questions like how an informer can live in our present times and how the one being reported on can cope with this state. Can a close friendship that began decades ago last if such betrayal comes to light? How can someone live and cope with this fact?
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Original Language: hu
Release Date: 2012-09-13
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Glamour
Overview: The tumultuous history of Hungary through the twentieth century is viewed through the saga of the Hungarian-Jewish, furniture-manufacturing family, the Vendels. After taking over the once successful, but now failing, family business in the 1930s, the family patriarch's dashing elder son decides that the family needs an infusion of new blood. A matchmaker presents him with a photo of a pretty German nursery school teacher. When the two meet, they instantly fall in love, but because Hungary has an alliance with Germany, and the Third Reich prohibits marriage between Gentiles and Jews, the couple must hide their union. Their marriage ultimately stands as a dark foreshadowing of rougher times to come as troubles ensue with the advent of World War II, when the family, its employees and servants must retreat to the basement, where the shop emerges increasingly as a refuge in a world growing more violent and less tolerant.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 2000-10-19
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A Priceless Day
Overview: Irén and Attila, a not-so-young couple, are in love. All they want is a flat of their own where they could live together. Unfortunately, Hungary in the 70s is no place for dreams.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1979-12-06
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The Bridgeman
Overview: This epic story takes place between 1820 and 1860 during the Habsburg Monarchy, and portrays the life one of the greatest Hungarian aristocrats - Count Széchenyi - who was born with extra-ordinary mental and spiritual talents. In the years following the fall of Napoleon the young count Széchenyi irresponsibly seduces his brother's wife, and the consequent scandal ruins his career as an army officer. After the sudden death of his humiliated lover Count Széchenyi drastically changes his character from that of a shallow young man into a responsible nobleman seeking to conquer his fate by creating great achievements in his remaining life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 2002-04-10
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God Walks Backwards
Overview: From the film-shooting in the Buda Castle Marci and his friend go to a well-paying job. The scene is a big castle in the middle of a huge park. They enjoy the company of the Kid and the beautiful naked French girl, Nathalie. Their job is to watch the monitors on which they can see the Moscow coup détat. By the time Gorbachev is executed the Communist and the Nationalists have taken turns in occupying the castle and the park.
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Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1991-03-18
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The Sun Street Boys
Overview: Some of the most symbolic moments of the 1956 Revolution in Hungary were the tooth-and-nail battles fought by the so-called 'Pest Lads' who dared to defy odds by taking on the panzers of one of the world's superpowers. The story begins on October 23rd, 1956 and ends on November 4th of the same year. Juli is Totya's girlfriend but also loves Gábor. Their love triangle will have to endure the trials and tribulations of these stirring times. A group of boys living in the outskirts of the capital are playing football in abandoned lot when Juli, a ticket inspector, brings news of protests breaking out in the city. Only Gábor accompanies her into town and together they become part of this historical event. At dawn, when the boys too come under fire from Soviet forces, they decide to join in the fight.
Genres: Romance Drama History
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 2007-02-01
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Utrius
Overview: Pál Utrius is twenty three years old and in love with his sister.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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Smouldering Cigarette
Overview: 1942. Owing to a stolen mink coat, Süti, the young poet and journalist, gets acquainted with Katalin, the idolated singer. Before being drafted to labour service, he shows the actress the song he composed for her, entitled Smouldering Cigarette.
Genres: Romance Drama Music
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 2001-08-14
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The Rapture of Deceit
Overview: Hungary after the changes. Jutka loses her job and even her marriage is ruined, since her husband gets involved with the daughter of an influential businessman. Jutka moves in with a female friend, Dóra likewise has to face a difficult choice.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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A sommelier
Overview: Abel Nagy works as a sommelier in the restaurant. He recommends and pairs wine with the food ordered. This time guests put him to the test.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 2018-03-20
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Kisses and Scratches
Overview: The story of a quirky love affair between Angi, an independent, no-nonsense social worker from a working-class district of Budapest and, Ildikó, a young mother who recently separated from her husband.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1995-09-21
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Heart Tremors
Overview: The general practitioner Balla and his wife abandoning her higher education begin their common life in the small mountain village in the hope of quick enrichment and return to the capital. Despite Éva and Emma, the two school mistresses longing for love and Demeter, the dove-keeper obsessed with a desire for flight life is boring in the country.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1981-06-06
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The Hungarian Dressmaker
Overview: Ema & Death’s-Head deals with the precarious border between humanism and the protection of one’s own life in situations when one excludes the other. Marika Sándorfi is hiding a Jewish boy during the dramatic era of the First Slovak State on the Slovak-Hungarian border. Šimon Holan, the boy in hiding, has a special ability to survive thanks to dreaming and a child’s fantasy.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: sk
Release Date: 2024-09-26
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Circus Maximus
Overview: During World War II Carlotta, the circus owner maintains herself, her lover and her rather run-down circus-team by illegal man-smuggling. In the year of 1944, besides the usual refugees, she even has to take Professor Máté, the renown mathematician to the Yugoslavian partisans. The team is joined by Carlotta's psychotic son who has escaped from an asylum.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1980-10-16
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An Old-Fashioned Story
Overview: In the second half of the 1800s, the daughter of a Debrecen family marries a landowner, Kálmán Jablonczay. The couple move to the husband's castle. The marriage starts off happily but the new wife, Mária Rickl, soon finds herself at odds with the gentry lifestyle, her husband and her father-in-law...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 2006-12-25
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