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Sámán (1977)
Character: Tamás, Márkus alteregoja
The film is a lyrical series of associations compiled from documentaries. Márkus, the actor is shut in his own flat by his wife by accident. While learning his part, on the wings of poetic intuition his imagination tours the great landscapes of the soul, the mystery of human existence.
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Területrendezés (1991)
Character: N/A
The ruined castle is inhabited by architects who, feeling the spirit of the place, want to direct the modernization of the settlement below the castle from here. Despite the residents' protests, the architects want to make the people happy by force.
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Kegyelem (2025)
Character: N/A
Szofi Szabó, the world-famous actress, arrives in Budapest with her husband and manager Mike to reveal her past in a documentary. But within the walls of the old Film Factory, a secret comes to light that turns everything upside down: who is Szofi's real father? The revelation of the truth brings betrayal, collapse and death, while the line between the illusion of filming and the harsh reality disappears forever.
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Az utolsó nyáron (1991)
Character: Vámos Béla
Imre Horváth and his friends gather to celebrate his wife's birthday. They are confused because of the changes in the country's politics and want Horváth to be much more active politically, but he is more concerned about his affair with his best friend's daughter.
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Csinszka (1987)
Character: Ady Endre
In 1894, in Csuča, tragedy-stricken, from a blood-relative marriage, Boncza Berta is born. At the age of sixteen, at a girls' boarding school in Switzerland, she admires Jenő Törzs and Endre Ady with equal fervour. She writes poetry and believes in her drawing talent - but she cannot be mediocre - this girl who lives in literature is destined to live forever. Chinska's personality, which neither reckons nor wants to reckon with reality, naturally leads to the bitter ordeal of her marriage to Ady. After Ady's death, she does not want to be the 'widow of the nation'.
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Brigitta (1993)
Character: Major
Adaptation of Adalbert Stifter's novella. In the middle of the 19th century, a young painter sets off to visit his friend - Major István Murai - in Hungary. A completely new life opens up to him. He is mesmerized by the beauty of nature, takes his time on his journey and only reaches his destination after detours and with help...
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Szédülés (1990)
Character: Apa
A middle-aged father and his two sons, twenty-year-old Gyuri and teenager Kid, live in a dilapidated apartment. Their everyday life, with its suffocating atmosphere and minimal communication, is turned upside down when Gyuri brings a woman into the apartment. The three of them have an affair with the girl, and the company is increasingly jealous and suspicious...
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Embriók (1986)
Character: N/A
Teréz is an obstetrician-gynaecologist. After her regular working hours she conducts a sociological survey about why couples do not have more children.
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Nemzeti dokumentumfilm (2014)
Character: N/A
The 'National Documentary' captures the last months of the National Theater led by Róbert Alföldi. The film presents two opposite processes: the rehearsal of the play Mephisto, Alföldi's last direction and, in parallel, the dissolution of the troupe.
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Noé bárkája (2007)
Character: Adorján
In Budapest’s Sixth District stands the “Noah’s Ark”, a “dirty-beautiful” tenement housing thirteen flats filled with a rapper, a poet, a washed-up footballer, an unfaithful wife, three aspiring actresses, retired cinema director Stock Ede and his home-bound octogenarian friend Aurél Tálas. When Ede, long disgusted by TV game shows, shocks everyone by entering “Hungary’s Best Grandpa” contest for a 5 million-forint prize, the building erupts in excitement.
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Pannon töredék (1998)
Character: Péter's father
Peter falls in love with Lena, a Bulgarian female student in the days of the 1956 revolution. They were both involved in the events of the Revolution, enthusiastically recount their experiences of an American journalist. The boy's parents leave the country, but he did not go with them.
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Hány az óra, Vekker úr? (1985)
Character: N/A
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.
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A veinhageni rózsabokrok (2007)
Character: Nyomozó
The police captain of a small religious town orders a painting from a young girl, a famous painter who has recently arrived in the town. However, he does not receive the finished painting because she disappears before he can deliver it. A detective from the neighbouring magistrate's office arrives to investigate the mysterious crime, and soon the handcuffs are snapped on the culprit, a lonely 17-year-old teenager known to the whole town as a fool.
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Sose halunk meg (1993)
Character: Vigéc
In 1960s Hungary, an introverted teenager’s life is turned upside down by a few days in the company of his coat hanger salesman uncle: a roguish charmer with a zest for life and a weakness for horse racing and women.
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God afton, herr Wallenberg (1990)
Character: Man on the Jewish Council
Swedish account of Raoul Wallenberg, the man responsible for the largest rescue of Jews during World War II.
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A Pásztor (2019)
Character: N/A
Hungary, 1944 - The main character is an old shepherd, who lives alone on a ranch. After his daughter got killed by Nazis, he decided in his grief to save as many Jewish lives as possible.
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Megáll az idő (1982)
Character: Lovas
A Budapest high school in the beginning of the 1960s. Dini suffers the torments of adolescence. His father had to leave Hungary after the uprise in 1956, and since then Dini's mother has had to take care of her two sons on her own. A friend of Dini’s father, Bodor, is released from prison and moves in with them. Dini and his brother are far from happy about this intrusion on their family life.
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Együtt kezdtük (2022)
Character: Nagypapa
A coming of age story, in flashback, of a group of high school students graduating in 2011. Each will take a different path from here on.
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Céllövölde (1990)
Character: N/A
Three people live together without having anything to do with each other. The macho father used to have a shooting gallery which he had to sell. Yet secretly, he keeps on dreaming about it.
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Szabadesés (2014)
Character: Master
An old woman flies past six floors after jumping from the roof of her apartment block. Six stories on the poor state of humanity, told with humour and rare imagination to the accompaniment of a pulsating soundtrack from Amon Tobin. A woeful burlesque set in the present by one of Europe’s most original contemporary filmmakers.
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Szabadság, szerelem (2006)
Character: Karcsi nagyapja
During the ill-fated Hungarian revolution of 1956, Karcsi Szabo, star player on the water polo team, is torn between his love for a revolutionary student and his training for the Melbourne Olympics.
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Megy a gőzös (2007)
Character: State official
A priceless archaeological find, the “Mother of Barcika”, is loaded onto a special train to tour Hungary, only for fate to derail it at the sleepy Ivaros station. There, the engine, a gendarme, the relic and its guards all end up stranded in a pigsty, igniting chaos: the relic is gambled away, the station master loses control, and the local mayor’s daughter finds unexpected love. In the ensuing mayhem, rivalries, romances and small-town intrigues all collide until order is somehow restored.
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Édes Emma, drága Böbe - vázlatok, aktok (1992)
Character: Captain Szaglár
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.
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Ma Este Gyilkolunk (2024)
Character: Heltai Hugó
A mysterious death occurs in a retirement home for elderly actors. A neglected old actor, once famous for his Poirot-like roles, begins to investigate. He thoroughly interrogates the suspects, but has no easy task finding the killer among his fellow actors.
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Testről és lélekről (2017)
Character: Mária's Childhood Doctor
Two introverted people find out by pure chance that they share the same dream every night. They are puzzled, incredulous, a bit frightened. As they hesitantly accept this strange coincidence, they try to recreate in broad daylight what happens in their dream.
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Sunshine (1999)
Character: Sommer
The fate of a Hungarian Jewish family throughout the 20th century.
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Offenbachs Geheimnis (1996)
Character: Jacques Offenbach
Academy Award winner Istvan Szabo brings to the screen Offenbach's operettas set against the backdrop of power and intrigue in 19th century Paris. Offenbach's Secret follows the staging of Croquefer and Les deux Aveugles at the Theatre des Bouffes-Parisiens founded by Offenbach in 1855. Limited by French law to one act with no more than three singers, Offenbach's early operettas were filled with biting social commentary and poked fun at the moral ambiguity of France's Second Empire under Napoleon III. In addition to Offenbach's vivacious music, the film features lush costumes, period details, and striking set designs.
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Az unoka (2022)
Character: Nagyapa
Rudi, a polite and quiet office hand, shares a special bond with his elderly grandpa. When Grandpa falls victim to a uniquely heartless phone scam that breaks his spirit and his health, Rudi decides he’s not going to let the petty criminals get away with it. But in order to get close to them, he needs to step far out of his comfort zone and turn into a different person. With a band of grey-haired allies on his side, he might just get to the scammers before it’s too late…
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Szerelmem, Elektra (1974)
Character: Dalnok
It has been fifteen years since the death of her father, Agamemnon, and Elektra still burns with hatred for Aegisztosz, who conspired with Elektra's mother to kill him.
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Macbeth (1982)
Character: N/A
Consistent of only two long shots, three witches predict that Macbeth will ascend to the throne of Scotland. To fulfill this prophecy, Lady Macbeth convinces her husband to murder King Duncan, who has come to spend the night at their home. This crime plunges the new ruler into a macabre spiral that will lead him to sink into guilt and madness.
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