Ádám Szirtes

In the small village of Rátót, every male is called Béla. When a woman gives birth to her child, she names him Józsi...

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The heroes of the film are manual workers, members of a Socialist Brigade. Gyula, the brigade leader once has a dream where the gate-keeper searches through Lenin, about to leave the factory. He decides to stage Gelman's play, Premium, with his brigade, since the drama very effectively depicts what they see in the world around.

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Öcsi is a difficult child to handle, although he always wants to do good. For example, if he fights, he only does it to protect the girls, he does the dishes in the bathroom because he developed a better procedure, and he also brought a puppy home just to ease the family’s financial worries.

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Frigyes, shortly after immigrating to New York City from Hungary, leaves his family for the pleasures and gratifications of being a street bum. But as time goes by, the appeal of this lifestyle wanes. A series of adventures with other drifters reaches a dramatic conclusion when some thugs murder one of them. This startling event forces Frigyes to come to terms with his current situation and decide whether to return to the family he abandoned.

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Öcsi adores Sarolta, the prettiest girl in class. Öcsi wants to woo her, but how? Take her bag, kidnap her in a Mercedes, serenade her? In this cheerful film with music and dance, scenes alternate between real and imaginary.

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From the intrigues and slander of the branch the painter Hódosi moves out to a hamlet at Hortobágy. He gets into conflict situation as well as he cannot endure that the political and economic elite of the neigbourhood would devastate the nature conservation area with hunting and (tax evading) goose husbandry.

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The Kondor family lives on the outskirts of Budapest, the father a truck driver abroad. The subtenant wants to act like the head of the family one day, but one of the children thwarts his wedding plans.

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The German national swimming team travels to Budapest for a competition. However, the teenagers are more interested in flirting with each other than training. Their coach is less than thrilled with his team's behavior.

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Political and sexual repression in Hungary, just after the revolution of 1956. Passionate and determined, Eva gets a job as a journalist. There, she meets Livia and is attracted to her. Livia feels much the same, but as a married woman, has doubts and hesitations. In their work, they (and Eva in particular) bang up against the limits of telling political truths; in private, they confront the limits of living out sexual and emotional truth.

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Lt. Kojak arrives in Budapest as a guest speaker for the 'International Crime Writers Conference'. Soon after he starts enjoying the pleasures that the city has to offer, he assists his old friends at the police department with a case. The case involves solving the murder of a noted scientist, unaware that a Mafia hit man and his female companion are targeting him.

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Transylvania during the reign of the great prince Mihály Apafi I. The Turk asks Prince Apafi for another tribute, and the Prince sends him two hundred gold pieces with Kristoff Szitáry. His two sons accompanied him halfway. On the way, they stop at the house of the caliph Pisliczar and spend the night there, and in the morning only Kristóf Szitáry continues his journey to Oradea. The Pasha is happy to receive him, but as soon as he opens the bags of money, stones and pieces of horseshoe fall out.

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Just a few days before the foreign delegation arrives at the ZOO, someone scribbled the elephant with unwashable paint.

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This detective story about three women who humiliate men. An accidental mishap reveals the spying activities of Pál Kovács, a foreign trader. The investigation is made more difficult by Kovács' persistent silence.The trail leads to his girlfriend, Éva László, an OTP employee, against whom an unsuccessful assassination attempt is made. In prison, Kovács' life is in danger. The investigation brings to the fore a gang of spies who are about to leave the country, but the gang's boss "Bimbó" keeps them in hand so that he can be the first to make his move.

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An adult educator arrives in the small-town factory with loads of books, energy and a freshly received diploma. The honest young man with dreamy eyes humanises the life of the plant, in a way distributing himself among people.

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A passenger has a heart attack on bus 78. People react in different ways to the tragedy, which causes a minor panic, but fortunately there are still some people with their heads and hearts in the right place. Are there?

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Gazsi, the protagonist of the novel, comes from the very edge of the society of the small village; he is an unliveable, helpless, simple-minded person. The only thing he dreams of is a rabbit paprika. However, when the dream could come true, as he takes part in a hunt, Gazsi takes the side of the persecuted and saves the rabbit Paprikás.

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The children of Somsabátony decide to build the country's first children's railway as they very much would like to make their birth-place famous.

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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.

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The loving couple of this grotesque parable parody of the Kádár-regime, Mária and István row to an uninhabited, idyllic island. Soon crazy tent-pitchers swarm to the island, led by an official representative of the regime.

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Pocok is a seventh grader and the youngest member of his brother's gang. The gang of teenagers wants to buy a motorcycle. They borrow one while they collect the money. Pocok also wants to ride a motorcycle, but they won't let him. His brother and his friends commit a crime, and Pocok gets involved against his will.

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Zsófi, the young nurse is surprised to see how difficult it is for some people to change their habits. She uses rather strict methods to make people get used to cleanliness and healthy diet and to create a proper life style for the women when pregnant. Doctor Varga, who has lost faith in his wife, tends to accept the young nurse's clever arguments in more and more matters. Later he falls in love with the dynamic girl.

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This film shows us around a factory in the seventies in Hungary. In the outskirts factory of Kőbánya workers celebrate the foundation members and want to present the oldest member, Uncle Benda, now a pensioner, with a golden ring. His grandson, Karcsi Merkovics, an industrial apprentice, is in love with the foreman's daughter.

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The poor little Ferkó is trying to enrich his miserable life with imaginary fairy tale figures and superstitious little stories. He suffers from diphtheria, and while he is having a visionary dream, Cinkekirály (Titmouse King) saves him from the claws of the magic Küsmödi. He expects his magic jacket to enable him to know everything at school without having studied.

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Marci, an impertinent crook buries his drunk parents and chooses to wander instead of becoming an apprentice.

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Feature film version of the 1971 series. On the eve of the 18th century, County Vicecomes Görgey Pál broods alone in his manor while the town of Leutschau celebrates New Year’s with lead‐casting omens and a disastrous hunt that sparks a bitter feud. As Görgey fights for his honor and life, and the townspeople defend their Saxon privileges, their mutual blind ambition prevents them from seeing the rising light of Rákóczi’s coming rebellion.

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This film, set at the end of the 18th century, in a provincial and noble environment raises the question of humans forced to lead a meaningless life. The rich Transylvanian noble youth, Kálmán, absorbed the spirit of freedom and enlightened culture in Paris. Returning to his father's estate, he encounters a superstitious backwardness and an orgiastic storming of violence and instincts.

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Hungarian mini-series.

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The rise and fame of Sándor Rózsa, the infamous outlaw of 19th century Hungary.

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This is a romantic biographical film about Franz Liszt. In a distinguished saloon of Paris, the unknown composer, Liszt, defeats the renown Thalberg at a piano competition. Through his playing, he wins the favours and later the hand of the countess D'Agoult. A daughter is born in their marriage, Cosima. Liszt is better and better known, Marie introduces him to the circle of artists.

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The film take place in Budapest, in the end of The World War II, telling the story of a young Communist who escaped from prison. The boy tries to revitalise his contact with the movement, but he is told to be quiet and wait.

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The protagonist of this farce is the enthusiastic, bald, spectacled Krebsz, an employee at the Prime and Sample Institute. He alerts the whole village to organise a beauty contest in the weed-field of Balatonszutykos. Hoping to win the grand prize, the leading role in a two-hour colour-film, the girls make all efforts and use all their tricks.

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The grotesque comedy with crime elements takes place in a grocery store.

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The members of a rifle-corps unit gather in a village by the western border

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The 16th century Kecskemét troubled by both the Kurutses and the Labancs would like a Bey from the Buda pasha to defend them in exchange for four beautiful girls, but only gets a caftan. It was a good deal, however. All Muslims fall on their knees when they see the magic caftan and fulfil its owner's wish.

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On receiving a letter from her mother, a quiet working-class girl leaves the state orphanage in Budapest where she grew up and takes a trip to the rural countryside to visit her.

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