Cast: Lajos Balázsovits

Direction Zoltán Fábri

Cast Edit Frajt · Lajos Balázsovits · László Gálffi · György Kálmán

Synopsis When a young boy comes in to see a doctor abourt a red mark on his face, the doctor's wife welcomes him into the consulting room instead. As they talk, she offers him something to eat and then notes that...

Direction István Szabó

Cast Ildikó Bánsági · Péter Andorai · Oszkárné Gombik · Károly Csáki

Synopsis During WW2 Hungarian resistance hides a married couple from the officials. The woman is sent to act as the wife of one of the resistance members who is also in hiding and pretending to be somebody else. They slowly begin...

Direction Miklós Jancsó

Cast Mari Töröcsik · György Cserhalmi · József Madaras · Mária Bajcsay

Synopsis The Euripides drama is played here on an expansive flat field. Hundreds of participants, a couple dozen horses, pheasants and pigeons move and dance over that terrain while the camera tracks through the crowd. It's a choreography tour de force,...

Direction Márta Mészáros

Cast Mari Töröcsik · Kati Kovács · Lajos Balázsovits · Ági Mészáros

Synopsis After her husband dies, a woman questions her love for her husband and whether or not to accept money from the insurance policy. Tensions mount when her estranged son returns to the familial home with his girlfriend.

Direction Márta Mészáros

Cast Jaroslava Schallerová · Mark Zala · Lajos Balázsovits · Péter Blaskó

Synopsis Savanyú and his friends work at a plant. After the monotonous shifts they engage in the pleasures of the afternoon and the night: Sex, parties and concerts. Savanyú dates Juli, who works in workers' hostels with the other girls. They...

Direction Miklós Jancsó

Cast Andrea Ajtony · András Ambrus · Lajos Balázsovits · András Bálint

Synopsis Red Psalm centers around a small peasants' revolt in 1890. It draws inspiration from the Hungarian revolutionary movements of the 19th century, including the Hungarian Revolution of 1848, of which Sándor Petőfi, the poet whose work the film's Hungarian title...

Direction Miklós Jancsó

Cast Andrea Drahota · Kati Kovács · Lajos Balázsovits · András Kozák

Synopsis This feature follows the student unrest that gripped Hungary in the wake of the 1947 socialist revolution. Scores of students are now able to attend college. Students march in an organized parade and push police into the water. They try...

Direction Miklós Jancsó

Cast Lajos Balázsovits · Pamela Villoresi · Franco Branciaroli · Teresa Ann Savoy

Synopsis The setting is a Central European kingdom, near the turn of the century. Bored by his very proper wife, the youthful heir to the throne spends his time in amorous dalliances at a sprawling country estate. His wife departs at...

Direction Miklós Jancsó

Cast Zoltán Mucsi · Péter Scherer · Péter Halász · Lajos Balázsovits

Synopsis The 5th and final adventure of Kapa & Pepe.

Direction Miklós Jancsó · István Márton

Cast György Cserhalmi · József Madaras · Ildikó Bánsági · Dorottya Udvaros

Synopsis American co-production money notwithstanding, this is an uncompromising statement of political disillusionment in the new post-communist Hungary. Former dissident Cserhalmi is about to be co-opted into the regime of the pro-capitalist prime minister, but as confused and confusing events elide...

Direction Miklós Jancsó

Cast György Cserhalmi · Zsuzsa Czinkoczi · Georgiana Tarjan · Lajos Balázsovits

Direction Liliana Cavani

Cast Lajos Balázsovits · Paolo Bonacelli · Marisa Fabbri · Marcella Michelangeli

Synopsis Leo, after a traffic accident, enters the clinic and tells Professor Bennet, his doctor, the history and acts of Tibetan monk Milarepa,

Direction Sándor Sára

Cast Lajos Balázsovits · Nadesda Kazassian · Todor Todorov · László Bánhidi

Synopsis An aspiring film student is denied a scholarship to the state-funded university when his father is thrown in jail. The man had stopped a train in order to facilitate the union between two old friends. The son then takes a...

Direction András Kovács

Cast Ilona Bencze · András Bálint · Anita Semjén · András Csiky

Synopsis Zsuzsa is a third-year student, majoring pedagogy. She is in love with Zoltan. They have a child. Zoltan will remain in the department though Zsuzsa and him used to fight against the university's policy. After a night spent with friends...

Direction Miklós Jancsó

Cast József Madaras · György Cserhalmi · Ferenc Kállai · Júlia Nyakó

Synopsis Monsters season - a teacher celebrates his 60th birthday at a rural summer house. Existentialism and philosophy is discussed among professors and students. A scary mystery play opens

Direction Miklós Jancsó

Cast Daniel Olbrychski · Kornél Mundruczó · Zoltán Mucsi · György Cserhalmi

Synopsis Managed to get onto the second party of the Mátyás [*Matthias] era, the peak of his power for a king's reign, and through this for Hungary's hey-day short one and a half of his decades concentrates. In the centre Mátyás...

Direction Miklós Jancsó · István Márton

Cast Zoltán Mucsi · Péter Scherer · Lajos Balázsovits · Eszter Csépai

Synopsis Kapa and Pepe contemplates the Hungarian capitalism of today. The power belongs to those with money.

Direction Miklós Jancsó

Cast József Madaras · Daniel Olbrychski · Mark Zala · Lajos Balázsovits

Synopsis Alegory 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...

Direction Miklós Jancsó

Cast György Cserhalmi · Lajos Balázsovits · Gábor Koncz · Udo Kier

Direction Márta Mészáros

Cast Zsuzsa Czinkoczi · Jan Nowicki · Mari Töröcsik · Ildikó Bánsági