István Avar
Also Known As: Avar István, Иштван Авар
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Egercsehi, Hungary
Adult: No
Birthday: March 20, 1931
Age: 94 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: September 13, 2014
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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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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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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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Just a Joke
Overview: The grey hero of grey workdays, the divorced cashier of a cinema who is always willing to sacrifice herself for others, Etelka, is awarded a two-week-holiday at Lake Balaton. Following the advice of her female friend, she tries to live life at full speed.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1961-11-30
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Every day - Sunday
Overview: Jirka is a composer, his wife, Jana, a pianist. Jana would like to have an own concert, but so far she has only been selected to accompany Valenta during his concerts in Budapest. After some resentments, she accepts the proposal.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1962-08-12
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Másfél millió
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1964-10-29
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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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Blow-Ball
Overview: A day in the solitary life of Pista, a single child of divorced parents. The boy skips school and explores the city of Budapest by himself, yet can't escape an unbearable ennui. Like Mészáros's ADOPTION, this early short film explores the themes of broken family bonds; it also offers insight into the origins of the director’s career.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1965-04-08
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The Last Chance
Overview: The film is based on a true story. Jakus, managing director of a scooter-factory suddenly resigns, since he disagrees with his superiors in the ministry on several points. Disregarding the attacks of his family and friends, he returns to his original job and becomes a welder, which is not very easy because of his records.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1973-08-13
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Dashing Girls
Overview: A musical farce about women in the canning factory. The pretty Brigitta tries to commit suicide, because Laci left her, pregnant, but her mates save her.
Genres: Music
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1974-08-13
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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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7 kérdés a szerelemről (és 3 alkérdés)
Overview: Seven stories about love and women.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1969-01-02
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Elcserélt szerelem
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Genres: Romance Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1983-08-25
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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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Zsaruvér és Csigavér II.: Több tonna kámfor
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Genres: Comedy Action Crime
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 2002-12-13
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Zsaruvér és Csigavér III.: A szerencse fia
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Genres: Comedy Crime Action
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 2008-01-01
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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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Binding Sentiments
Overview: Edit, who became the wife of a politician out of a simple peasant girl, suddenly becomes a widow as a result of an accident. She never loved her husband. She lives a wealthy and lonely life amidst false friends, facing one of the last alternatives of her life, i.e. having to face her past in the hope of an independent new beginning.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1969-01-09
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Bespectacled
Overview: The young Valkó wants to plan a block of apartments that will still be modern fifty years from now. His ambitious plans are continuously rejected by his manipulative and careless superiors. So instead of the modern block of flats he only plans a bachelor apartment.
Genres: Drama Romance History
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1969-06-05
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Red-Letter Days
Overview: Mihály, a retired foundryman has brought up his sons in a very disciplined and strict way, and as a result they have become a doctor, an engineer, and a teacher. However, his half orphan grandson, Misi, has been spoilt, and become skilled in nothing else really but riding his motorbike and going to parties. He has been involved in shady businesses a number of times already. Having experienced so many difficulties, privation and hardship in his own life and now seeing Misi's irresponsible lifestyle, the old man's bitterness is growing day by day.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1967-06-05
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Walking to Heaven
Overview: If there has ever been pure and undestroyable love, this is it. That is how Imre and Vera feel. The talented chemist loses his best friend for the girl's sake, then gives up his profession, only to be able to stay in the capital with Vera. But the young actress at the beginning of her career is neglected. Imre accepts an uninteresting, but well-paying position. They seem to be happy together.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-07-08
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A Houseful of Bliss
Overview: A comedy about the dwellers of a newly handed-over building. The sullen doctor Birkás is concerned that his wife also has a job so there is nobody to keep the apartment tidy. What is more, it happens that the doctor must cook the dumplings stuffed with plums himself. The lady hairdresser, Albert, is rather jealous of his wife. His jealousy is not entirely ungrounded, and Mancika runs away with a motorcyclist. The Korbusz family live a little crowded, because in addition to Öcsi, even an energetic grandmother lives with them. But the peacefully troublesome time spent together does not disturb the family's happiness.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-07-08
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Cobweb
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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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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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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Assume Yourself
Overview: A story about the Hungarian pioneers summer vacations.
Genres: Family
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1975-02-20
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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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The Fanatics
Overview: Bene, tired of the professional battles of engineers and trying to escape a ship-wrecked marriage, asks to be transferred to the country. The gravest problem of the sandy region in Nagyalföld (Great Hungarian Plain) is the shortage of water. The tireless director of the local state farm asks for Bene's support, but the disillusioned man refuses him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1962-01-18
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Test Trip
Overview: Vetró János, the lorry driver, is an alcoholic. His marriage is in pieces, his wife has a lover. Their son suffers an accident. The next day his wife moves out. In his desperation, Vetró drinks even more, and leaves his work as well.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1961-02-16
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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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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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The Enchanted Dollar
Overview: Tomboy accidentally found a fake dollar and gave it to detective Droplet. The operation is headed by Maj. Kardos. Now they have to investigate the crime in order to find and neutralize the counterfeiters.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1986-05-01
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Hi, Junior!
Overview: Everyone loves little Junior, but nobody has time for him. So Junior decides to find Time with the help of his friends - dwarves.
Genres: Comedy Family Fantasy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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Miért beszél annyit Mrs. Piper?
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Genres: No genres available
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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A múmia közbeszól
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Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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A bunker
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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Wengler & Sons
Overview: A story spanning three generations, from 1871 to 1945. When Gustav Wengler, a farmer’s son, returns from the Franco-German war in 1871, he goes to work for a precision mechanics and optical company, where he soon becomes a master craftsman. Wengler loyally promises the owner on his deathbed that his sons and grandsons will also stand by the company.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1987-05-14
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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.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1991-03-18
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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 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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Autumn Star
Overview: The scene is a small town in the Hungarian Plain, the time is Summer 1945. The diggers who have been left out of land distribution are demonstrating in front of the City Hall. Upon the advice of an unemployed engineer having returned from captivity, an uncultivated and barren piece of land is distributed among them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-01-01
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Forbidden Ground
Overview: The dramatically dense film takes place in workers' surrounding in the sixties. It raises the newspaper article serving as the basis for the short story to be a model: in a plastic factory fire breaks out causing enormous damages.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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Labyrinth
Overview: The film director starts shooting his film about the manager of a large corporation who committed suicide for mysterious reasons. As the cumbersome process of making a film goes along, everybody involved in it starts having differing opinions of the tragedy, its causes and its victim.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1976-04-15
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II. József császár
Overview: A Hungarian film about Emperor Joseph II
Genres: History TV Movie
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1982-05-06
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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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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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