Dajka Margit
Also Known As: Маргит Дайка
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Nagyvárad, Osztrák-Magyar Monarchia
Birthday: October 13, 1907
Deathday: May 24, 1986
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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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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A nagymama
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1986-04-03
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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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Csontvary
Overview: Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka the one-ideaed Hungarian painter was thought to be crazy by his peers, but he eventually became a significant artist.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1980-10-02
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That Lovely Green Grass
Overview: Misu is spending his summer holiday in an old block of flats in Budapest. The caretaker of the house, Poldi, a park attendant by occupation, is going to retire in a few days and he is afraid to think ahead of the years to come without grass and trees. An idea comes to Misu to spend the summer in an active way. He organises a working party to sod the inner court of the block of flats they live in. To achieve his plan, he has to make alliances with some people and to win the opponent to the idea, namely Kamilla, an insurance consultant. Their assistants in this mission will be the dustman and the coal deliverer and Piroska, a girl spending her holyday at Kamilla's.
Genres: Adventure Family Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1979-12-20
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Bors néni
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Genres: Family
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1981-10-20
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Summer Rain
Overview: Miskei, the popular and dynamic president of a co-op falls in love with Mari, the attractive wife of the elderly Pató. The deeply feeling woman is fed up with the service beside the haughty land holder, she is longing for tenderness and a child. The passion of Miskei is growing when he sees how crudely, humiliating Pató treats her. During a powerful summer shower, when chance brings them together in an abandoned press house, he storms on Mari confessing love. The woman refuses him bitterly. Miskei calms down and he keeps on expressing his love and high esteem with the woman by steadfast and tiny compliments. Early one morning Mari leaves her husband and sets off to the city to learn and to begin a new life.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1961-01-19
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For Whom the Larks Sing
Overview: 1922. Sándor serves as a farm-hand, but would like to become a blacksmith. He is completely enchanted by the beautiful wife of his new master.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1959-08-18
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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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Cat's Play
Overview: Karoly Makk's heartbreaking story of two unmarried sisters who cast wistful glances back at their lives, but still believe in hope and love, earned an Academy Award Nomination for Best Foreign Language Film in 1974. In this follow-up to the director's internationally acclaimed Love, Makk once again exhibits his extraordinary skills at drawing emotionally compelling performances from his talented female leads. Makk's film opposes the bleakness of the outside world with passion, love, and loyalty.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1974-05-10
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141 Minutes from the Unfinished Sentence
Overview: This lavishly spectacular film focuses on the character of Lorinc Parcen Nagy from the 1200-page Tibor Déry novel interwoven with numerous autobiographical elements. Lorinc Parcen Nagy is the offspring of an upper middle class family, whose life is marked by two violent deaths: the suicide of his father and the slaughter of an innocent worker. He breaks with his family and his mother in disgust; she is of weak character, a person who abandoned her own husband. He is also unable to discover the right tone with his colleagues and his lover who is an illegal party worker.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1975-02-06
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John, the Hero
Overview: 1938 screen adaptation of the 1904 musical version of the classic Hungarian fairy tale poem by Sándor Petőfi.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1939-01-26
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Rákóczi induló
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Genres: Romance
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1933-11-23
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The Sack
Overview: For the first time after 11 years, Simon, a young historian visits the village of his childhood at Balaton and Aunt Lina, his foster-mother. He gets upset by what he experiences there: the old woman's troublesome and vexing everydays, her quiet sadness. He is overwhelmed by his own memories, the death of his foster-father and by everything he was not aware of before, or he simply wanted to forget.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1966-04-15
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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 Doctor's Death
Overview: The film is a parable about honesty. The tired and sick country physician, doctor Weiss, has worked all through his life. He could finally withdraw from working, but his young successor leaves the district because of a trip abroad. Weisz is asked to continue working for some more time. For all his protestations, nobody seems to listen to him. Eventually, in spite of the protestations of his wife and his bad health condition, he consents.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-09-19
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Hasty Marriage
Overview: The protagonists of a comic Romeo and Juliet story full of gags are two widowed pensioners. Nádor and Mrs. Komáromi meet in the cemetery while mourning their dead spouses and they fall in love.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1968-09-12
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Legato
Overview: The university student couple, Andris and Mari, cross Nemesbérc during their summer vacation, to hasten the laying of a memorial stone to the memory of András's martyr father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1977-02-25
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A Strange Role
Overview: After the breakup of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, a young Hungarian, wanted by the police for political crimes, escapes to just this side of the Austrian border. When he discovers that his escape contact has been shot, he disguises himself as a woman and, posing as a maid, takes refuge at a tuberculosis sanatorium. He lives there as a woman for the entire winter before resuming his journey in the spring.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1976-01-06
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Elcserélt ember
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1938-03-25
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A Nice Neighbor
Overview: Hungarian-born Laszlo Szabo returned to his native country to play the part of Dibusz in this comedy. When the residents of a large old house learn that it is to be torn down and that they will be relocated elsewhere, an intense game gets underway. As is usual in such instances, the residents will be given new apartments commensurate in size with their old ones. Dibusz sees this as an opportunity to temporarily enlarge his "assigned" space in the condemned building. He wants to be reassigned to an apartment which is larger than his current bathless one-room space. He and a neighbor cooperate to break down the walls that separate their spaces from that of an old woman who just died after a brief tussle. Still not satisfied, he tries to marry one of two spinster women who live together but is rejected. In the course of the film, he has intense encounters of one sort or another with anyone who might be of help to him in his quest.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1979-03-26
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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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Danse Macabre
Overview: Life is on in the old house of Vizváros. Kids play on the ground. The adopted son of the janitor, Matyi, is hopelessly in love with Juli. He would like to emigrate to America with her. She prefers Janó, the driver, a great womaniser.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1958-01-30
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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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A falu rossza
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1938-01-12
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Piri Knows Everything
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1932-04-20
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Biting Husband
Overview: Péter Ilosvay and Lina Vásárhelyi are wife and husband, but don't come along with each other. After the divorce they go on living under the same roof for they are unable to agree on the common wealth.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1938-03-07
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A kisfiú meg az oroszlánok
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Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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The Lion is Ready to Jump
Overview: SS doctor during the war worked on the serum of cancer, but discovered a terrible poison, one vial is enough to kill 100 000 people. 20 years after the war, the old Nazi gets out of prison, and the hunt for him and his discovery begins.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1969-05-29
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There Was Once a Family
Overview: This film describes the narrator's childhood, the years before and after the Hungarian Soviet Republic, in a burlesque and fabulous style and with the humour of a child's fantasy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1972-04-20
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Fekete macska
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Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1972-11-07
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The Torocko Bride
Overview: András and Rózsi have been engaged for years now, but, given the absence of her certificate of baptism, they cannot get married.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-23
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Until the Day is Breaking
Overview: Mihály Zágon has been struggling with his conservative mother-in-law for a long time. Now, that his wife is pregnant, the old woman wants Piroska to stay in bed. Mihály is elected to be the president of the co-operative, but nobody is happy about this back home. His wife often pretends to be ill to keep him by her side.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-01-01
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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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János Háry
Overview: János Háry, the old veteran is telling his stories in the pub without end.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-03-01
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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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Lily Boy
Overview: Liliomfi is a 1954 Hungarian comedy film directed by Károly Makk. It was entered into the 1955 Cannes Film Festival. Set in the "Golden Era" of the wandering Hungarian theatre troupes. Mariska and Liliomfi fall in love without suspecting that Mariska's foster father, Professor Szilvay, is also Liliomfi's uncle. Soon the couple must contend with the professor's plan to make Liliomfi give up his "unrespectable" profession of acting by exposing the professor's hypocrisy, greed, and tyrannical selfishness.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1955-02-24
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Wild Roses
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1939-03-09
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Pénz beszél
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1940-01-01
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Mai lányok
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1937-01-01
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Iván Iljics halála
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Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1965-02-28
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Vőlegény
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: hu
Release Date: 1981-11-30
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Diákszerelem
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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