Ildikó Bánsági
Also Known As: Bánsági Ildikó
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Budapest, Hungary
Adult: No
Birthday: October 19, 1947
Age: 77 years old
Gender: Female
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Mephisto
Overview: A German stage actor finds unexpected success and mixed blessings in the popularity of his performance in a Faustian play as the Nazis take power in pre-WWII Germany. As his associates and friends flee or are ground under by the Nazi terror, the popularity of his character supercedes his own existence until he finds that his best performance is keeping up appearances for his Nazi patrons.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1981-02-11
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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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Hungarian Vagabond
Overview: A Hungarian historical movie that tells the story of the Hungarian ancestors, the seven leaders, who are looking for their new homeland in the last years of the 9th century. Before they leave their original home in Asia, they have a farewell party. They wake up with a severe hangover after consuming large quantities of kumis. The seven leaders wake up to find that their people have disappeared.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 2004-02-05
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Sweet Emma, Dear Böbe
Overview: The story shows Emma's and Böbe's fight for survival, for keeping their position in society which they achieved with hard work in the previous regime. They don't want to lose their place and become village girls again.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1992-03-20
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Hanussen
Overview: A man's story parallels Hitler's rise. Austrian Klaus Schneider, wounded in World War I, recovers in the care of Dr. Emil Bettleheim. Bettleheim discovers that Schneider possesses powers of empathy and of clairvoyance, such that could aid suicidal patients. After the war, with one friend as his manager and another as his lover, Schneider changes his name to Eric Jan Hanussen and goes to Berlin, as a hypnotist and clairvoyant performing in halls and theaters. He always speaks the truth, which brings him to the attention of powerful Nazis. He predicts their rise (good propaganda for them) and their violence (not so good). He's in pain and at risk. What is Hanussen's future?
Genres: Science Fiction History Drama Fantasy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1988-05-20
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Erasing Frank
Overview: Set in 1983, behind the Iron Curtain of Eastern Europe in Budapest, the film follows Frank, the charismatic singer of a banned punk band that carries the voice of their generation against a totalitarian regime. Taken to the police psychiatric hospital in an attempt to silence him, Frank will sacrifice everything to resist.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 2021-10-07
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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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Diary for My Loves
Overview: A continuation of "Diary for My Children," the film picks up in 1950, when Juli, the diarist, is 18 and determined to become a movie director.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1987-10-01
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Diary for My Father and My Mother
Overview: This story follows a young student, who is orphaned as she grows to adulthood in the shadow of the 1956 Hungarian uprising. Coming from the Communist intelligentsia, she sees her friends and family react differently. Her lover, a married factory manager, supports the patriots and later assists fellow workers in staging a strike. Meanwhile her sister and others express anger at being forced from their homes during the revolution and continue to express a hatred for the rebels afterwards. But in the end they realize that for all people, real life is not possible after the revolt and its brutal suppression by the Soviets and their collaborators.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1990-01-02
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Junk Movie
Overview: It is 1989, the year of the demise of socialism in eastern Europe. Nevertheless, the one theme of Junk Movie does not refer to this historical moment of high ideals, quite the contrary, the wild, burlesque of a motif-mozaic seems merely to stick it’s tongue out at the arrogant players of politics who have their heads stuck in the clouds. The film rudely points out the mystery and unapproachability surrounding the every-day existence of politics. The scene is a greasy, falling-down block of a pub called the Gólya and its immediate surroundings.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1992-12-11
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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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The Palisade Street Kidnapping
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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Brady’s Escape
Overview: This movie is about the love and protection of a man from another culture for the lowly horsemen of the the plains in Hungary during World War II.
Genres: Action Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-12-08
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Black Diamond
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Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1977-02-17
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Journey with Jacob
Overview: István and Jakab are fire-extinguisher experts. They travel the country to check fire-extinguishers at country factories. During their tours of inspection they chase women, drink in dirty pubs and live in clover.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1972-08-12
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Don't Pull My Beard!
Overview: This absurd story, bordering on the drawing-room comedy, portrays the practices of abusing power and the insolence of bureaucracy through the revolting of a young designer-engineer of the Railway Tilting Examination Board. The ambitious Pócsik works persevearingly on how to compensate for the tilting of railway carriages in bends. His jealous bosses, however, use their best efforts to block the development of an innovation.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1975-08-13
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What's the Time, Mr. Clock?
Overview: Even without a clock, the watch-maker of the small country town always knows the exact time to the second, and for this reason he came to be called Mr. Clock. His wife left him, and he only lives for his work. He is just engaged in repairing the tower clock when his wife returns and the German troops appear.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1985-08-14
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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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Jesus Christ's Horoscope
Overview: A focus on the tormented lives of intellectuals who failed to protest recent troubles in their homeland. Jancsó emphasizes highly evocative and ambiguous imagery over dialog or exposition as he – through visually fascinating imagery – depicts the painful, stunted lives of Hungary's intellectuals who have remained silent and ineffectual during various political crises.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1989-10-12
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Ten Minutes Older: The Cello
Overview: Collection of short films the summaries of which include; a foreign man moving to Italy, getting married and having a child; a four split scene short involving plot-less images of old people with television sets for heads, a beautiful woman having sex, and overall confusion; and an old man reminiscing over his youth.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-09-03
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Truants
Overview: In the country reformatory school both the teacher and the children are trapped by the circumstances. From among the pupils excels Sanyi, who cannot accept the fact that his mother does not love him and he keeps on escaping after her. From among the teachers it is Mr. Csőrös who distinguishes himself by listening to the children, looking for those who escaped, Sanyi feels affection to him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1989-09-14
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Makra
Overview: The events of the story take place in the outskirts of working class people in the early nineteen fifties. Makra, a skilled worker in a factory, suddenly comes to close quarters with everything around him because his environment condemns and ridicules him for protecting a woman when his drunk fellows were going to rape her after his bachelor party.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1974-11-14
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Je t'aime
Overview: The story of a love-triangle is recounted through Anitas memories and jagged monologue. Anita is tremendously naive and in love, Laci is a petty small-town gangster with great powers of persuasion and the secret lover of Szilvi. The three of them leave for Vienna, where Laci sells off the two girls to a peep-show for some small money.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1992-06-06
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Rosehill
Overview: The film shows the times directly before and after the revolution of 1956 in a Rosehill villa and its garden, guarded by the state security, from the perspective of a powerful party functionary’s children living there. The children witness a lot of things they do not understand, mysterious things, which they interpret in their own way.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 2003-07-09
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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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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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Children of Glory
Overview: Children of Glory will commemorate Hungary's heroic Revolution of 1956, and takes place in Budapest and at the Melbourne Olympic Games in October and November of that year. While Soviet tanks were destroying Hungary, the Hungarian water polo team was winning over the Soviets in the Olympic pool in Melbourne, in what has been described as the bloodiest water polo match in history.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 2006-10-23
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Birdies
Overview: The heroines of this lyric comedy full of burlesque elements are two girls from a village who get totally engrossed in their day-dreaming. Ida and Rozi escape to the city to catch husbands for themselves.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1971-09-11
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Sinbad
Overview: Based on the stories of Hungarian writer Gyula Krúdy, this iconic film is a lush and sensuous depiction of the life, loves and memories of serial seducer Szindbád.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1971-11-25
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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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Para
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Genres: Romance Crime Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 2008-10-15
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Hungarian Dracula
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Rose's Songs
Overview: Autumn 1944. Yellow star, ghettos, Arrow Cross terror. The inhabitants of Hungary's capital, Budapest, await the tragic fulfilment of their fate with helpless resignation. However, above one of the city's villas, once a week in the evening the stars of hope sparkle, if only for a few minutes. This short time gives fresh heart to those hiding here and kindles hope in their tortured souls to live for another day. This mysterious power is none other than a beautiful song that can be heard at such times from the villa's tower room.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 2003-03-19
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Szépség Háza
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Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1976-07-23
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Átok és szerelem
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Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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The Blue Danube Waltz
Overview: When Hungary's newest prime minister is shot and killed at a reception, the resulting investigation is necessarily swift and comprehensive. This compelling political thriller uncovers two prime suspects: the woman who guns the leader down, and a man who was friends with both the prime minister and his murderer. Using video surveillance footage, as well as other more artful and symbolic imagery, the noted "visualist" director Miklos Jancso, who is known for his craft in getting his points across non-verbally, combines fantasy and reality in a highly ironic manner.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1992-05-30
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The Last Judgement But One
Overview: The man is promoted and given a new assignment at his work-place. At home, he stares at a video-cassette: it portrays his wife's face in countless versions, she is sometimes simply beautiful, then unfathomable, but it is mostly a sad, closed, lonely face.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1979-04-17
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The Rebellion of the Straw Men
Overview: Buda, 1851. Jeromos Hétszáz, a puppet maker living in Óbuda, and his wife, Óguszta, a childless couple, have given refuge to the orphans of those fallen in the war of liberty or jailed, most recently to Pál Penyige and Borbála Derelye. Overjoyed when the chief of police orders fifty straw puppets, they are distressed on learning that the puppets will be publicly hanged in effigy of Lajos Kossuth and the leaders of the war of liberty.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-01
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Peter and Paul
Overview: The subject-matter of this comedy is age-old: that of the schizophrenic soul. Papa would have liked boy twins years ago, but her wife gave birth to a single child weighing six kilograms. He would like to dampen his feeling of emptiness by having the boy registered both as Péter and Pál.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1978-11-16
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Erdély Aranykora
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Genres: History
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1989-02-01
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Panic
Overview: A collage of human fates, where all shown characters are suffering from panic attacks. Stories like a policeman who is willing to come out or a young business woman who achieved her life goals too early.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 2008-03-06
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Meeting Venus
Overview: Celebrated Swedish opera star Karin Anderson is slated to appear in an internationally-telecast production of Tannhauser. Ms. Anderson balks at the notion of working with obscure Hungarian conductor Zoltan Szanto. The much-anticipated production may never get off the ground, thanks to labor-management difficulties, intramural jealousies, and clashing egos. Amidst all this chaos, the mismatched Anderson and Szanto fall in love.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-09-18
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Diary for My Children
Overview: After having lost her parents, young Juli returns from the Soviet Union to her native Budapest. Scarred by the wounds of the past, the ghost of Stalin’s oppression haunts her as she reunites with her aunt and adoptive mother Magda.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1984-05-03
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Félálom
Overview: In András Jeles' short film, elements of the present are mixed with the world of Honoré de Balzac's novel Lost Illusions.
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Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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Abel in America
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Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1998-02-05
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Marriage with Days off
Overview: Mici, a pretty young girl is a selected swimmer. Laci, her trainer looks after her jealously, mainly because of her condition.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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A bosszú
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1977-01-01
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The Right to Hope
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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Tonight We Kill
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Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 2024-10-31
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Fulladás
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Original Language: hu
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Volpone
Overview: The rich love wealth and believe that if they don't keep accumulating it, the world will collapse. It is this human weakness that Volpone, the old con man, builds on, inventing an unexpected trick to play a sickly old man about to die, who, with the help of his servant and skilful apprentice, tricks the hypocritical but wealthy Venetian citizens into doing anything in the hope of a rich inheritance. How things don't turn out as planned...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1975-02-15
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His Master's Voice
Overview: A Hungarian journalist who is about to start a family journeys to the United States in the hopes of finding his own father, a scientist who went missing in the 1970s while working on a top secret military research project that examined 'voices' from outer space.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 2018-12-20
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György Fehér's Films According to Béla Tarr
Overview: A portrait film in which the actors often employed by Fehér (Ferenc Kállai, Péter Haumann and Ildikó Bánsági, respectively) testify with love and respect about the artist's creative method and his pursuit of perfection.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 2001-01-01
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