Screenplay: Péter Bacsó

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Péter Bacsó. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Two Half-Times in Hell

1961 · Movie · 140 min. · Hungary

Direction Zoltán Fábri

Cast Imre Sinkovits · Dezsö Garas · József Szendro · István Velenczei

Plot On Hitlers birthday, the Germans decide to organize a soccer match between prisoners of war and Germans.

7.2

125 votes

7.2

125 votes

The Witness

1969 · Movie · 105 min. · Hungary

Direction Péter Bacsó

Cast Ferenc Kállai · Lajos Öze · Béla Both · Zoltán Fábri

Plot Banned for over a decade for its outspoken criticism of the post-WWII communist regime in Hungary, Péter Bacsó's 'The Witness' has since then achieved unparalleled cult status in its native...

7.2

64 votes

7.2

64 votes

Sweet Anna

1958 · Movie · 84 min. · Hungary

6.9

33 votes

6.9

33 votes

Love

1971 · Movie · 88 min. · Hungary

Direction Károly Makk

Cast Lili Darvas · Mari Töröcsik · Iván Darvas · Erzsi Orsolya

Plot The wife of a political prisoner tends to her mother-in-law and keeps from the old woman the truth about her son, whom she believes is in New York making a...

6.7

95 votes

6.7

95 votes

Szerelmes biciklisták

1965 · Movie · 100 min. · Hungary

Direction Péter Bacsó

Cast Tibor Orbán · Nóra Káldi · László Tahi Tóth · István Uri

Plot András, Bence and Albert go to a cycling trip around Lake Balaton in the summer. They get acquainted with Eszter. Bence likes the girl. They meet again in Füred, and...

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Jelenidö

1972 · Movie · 111 min. · Hungary

Direction Péter Bacsó

Cast Ágoston Simon · Irén Bódis · Klára Pápai · Gabriella Koszta

Plot Mózes Imre, the quality inspector of a big factory in Budapest loses his job overnight because he did not obey the director's instructions and refused some bad products of the...

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Zongora a levegöben

1976 · Movie · 94 min. · Hungary

Direction Péter Bacsó

Cast Juraj Durdiak · Tibor Rácz · Ferenc Kállai · Tamás Major

Plot Continued exercises of a pianist in his apartment, forcing their neighbors to take drastic measures. So, they try to find ways to get rid of all the discomfort caused by...

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Nyár a hegyen

1967 · Movie · 100 min. · Hungary

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Oh, Bloody Life

1984 · Movie · 108 min. · Hungary

Direction Péter Bacsó

Cast Dorottya Udvaros · Zoltán Bezerédy · András Kern · Ödön Rubold

Plot Hungary in the 50s. Lucy Sziráky is a talented successful actress. Unfortunately the police find out that she married a count and deport her to the countryside. The other deported...

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The Day Before Yesterday

1982 · Movie · 102 min. · Hungary

Direction Péter Bacsó

Cast Éva Igó · György Dörner · Károly Nemcsák · Tamás Tóth

Plot In 1947 Dorottya is dismissed from girl school by the nuns for her views.

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A Very Moral Night

1977 · Movie · 110 min. · Hungary

Direction Károly Makk

Cast Margit Makay · Irén Psota · Carla Romanelli · Georgiana Tarjan

Plot Jenő Kelepei is a poor but happy student. The madam of a brothel and her boarders took her under their protection. When his old mother arrives in town, these, to...

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Ki beszél itt szerelemröl?!

1980 · Movie · 93 min. · Hungary

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Stalin's Bride

1991 · Movie · 89 min. · Hungary

Direction Péter Bacsó

Cast Juli Básti · Nina Petri · György Cserhalmi · Miklós Benedek

Plot At a dusty crossroads in the Soviet Union villagers surrender their possessions - a horse, a samovar, a goat - to the state. The train which takes them away brings...

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Forró vizet a kopaszra!

1972 · Movie · 80 min. · Hungary

Direction Péter Bacsó

Cast Alajos Fekete · Imre Gémessy · Erika Horineczky · György Gonda

Plot Naturalist satire-tinged burlesque. There are plenty of winks of complicity towards the viewer looking reflect a certain humanity, in this case represented by a nervous hairdresser and deceived, which is...

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