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Autó (1975)
Character: N/A
This sour satire records how narrow-minded, perishable and prejudiced human relations are. Lili, an open, good-hearted, but clumsy girl gets a rusty Renault Gordini from her uncle living in France. She wants to learn driving, but makes horrible and perilous mistakes behind the wheel.
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K.O. (1977)
Character: N/A
Chungi, the boxer eternal second in the domestic field. The only one ahead of him is his good friend Red, the Olympic champion. Csungi is in good form now and has a chance to beat the champion and qualify for the world championships. Red, who has sacrificed everything for success, would be hard to beat in a points race, and a knockout would be Chungi's only chance. But his coach suggests a different tactic...
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Don Juan és a Kővendég (1978)
Character: Don Juan
Don Juan Tenorio finds himself at the gate of Hell, where he is confronted with the consequences of his 1003 seductions.
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Fábián Bálint találkozása Istennel (1980)
Character: Lakatos Ignác
1918. Fábián Bálint is forced to kill humans on the Italian front. At home his sons drown the priest, the lover of their mother, in the river Kraszna. Mrs. Fábián turns insane. Following his arrival home Bálint becomes the liveried coachman of the baron.
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Imposztorok (1969)
Character: Hermann
This grotesque historical film is a caricature of the narrow-minded and careerist oligarchs of the 20s. A young military officer stops the young jurist from killing himself and recommends him to his commander, lieutenant-colonel Doborján as a typist.
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Isten és ember előtt (1968)
Character: Andreasz
Anika, the daughter of the Greek partisan refugee and the Hungarian medical student, Zoltán fall in passionate love. But Anika's mother wants her to marry a Greek, for she is very homesick and wants to go home. The under-age girl cannot protest.
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Az idők kezdetén (1975)
Character: N/A
The film takes place at the end of 1946. Rumours are spread that the food supply will not arrive for it has been robbed. Workers of the metal factory go on strike.
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A halhatatlanság halála (1976)
Character: Harlan
Somewhere outside of time as we understand it is the timeless realm known as Eternity, where a group of highly trained technicians – drawn from all the Centuries under their control – have manipulated the Earth’s history to transform it into what they believe to be a perfect world, free from every disaster and hardship. But when Senior Computer Twissel sends a young Technician named Harlan to study the 480th Century in the company of a seductive woman, Harlan begins to suspect that Twissel may have some secret plan of his own which has something to do with the forbidden centuries before time travel was invented...
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A 78-as autóbusz útvonala - Kis kitérővel (1976)
Character: N/A
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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A nagy képmás (1977)
Character: Strobele
Endriade's wife died in a tragic car accident 10 years ago. The scientist now lives in a secret laboratory high in the mountains under close military supervision. He and a few other scientists have created an artificial super-brain that knows everything. Outwardly, this higher knowledge looks like his long-deceased wife, but in addition to its appearance, it also received her personality, which rebels against its creators and begins killing them.
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A halhatatlan légiós (1971)
Character: Fülig Jimmy/Gorcsev Iván
Marching through the snowfields of Ukraine, the Writer is already haunted by visions. His famous characters in his novels, Jimmy Fülig, Ivan Gorchev, Sir Yolland, Marshal Podvinecz and others, appear in his visions, blurring reality. The heroes of the novel do not deny themselves here either, and try to counterbalance the terrible reality of everyday life with wry, grotesque humour...
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Makra (1974)
Character: N/A
The events of the story take place in the outskirts of working class people in the early nineteen fifties. Makra, a skilled worker in a factory, suddenly comes to close quarters with everything around him because his environment condemns and ridicules him for protecting a woman when his drunk fellows were going to rape her after his bachelor party.
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Hajdúk (1974)
Character: N/A
This film, set at the beginning of the 17th century, is the first East-European "Eastern". Bocskai István orders the free Heyducks to shepherd a huge herd of cattle through the country torn to three parts, to the Dalmatian coast, where he can get weapons in exchange, for fighting the Austrians.
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Még kér a nép (1972)
Character: Tóth Ferenc, socialist
Set in the 1890s on the Hungarian plains, a group of farm workers go on strike in which they face harsh reprisals and the reality of revolt, oppression, morality and violence.
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Eltávozott nap (1968)
Character: Fiú a vonatról
A young woman leaves a state orphanage to find her mother in this interesting examination of how the overt repression of women in the older pattern of village life has been replaced by the more subtle exploitation inherent in the apparently freer existence of young girls in the contemporary city.
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80 Huszár (1978)
Character: Ács Péter
The film tells the story of a regiment of Hungarian hussars stationed in Poland. The hussars, mostly ordinary men, have heard news of the uprising and wish to return to the homeland to defend the newly independent country. The Empire, on the other hand, is firmly resolved that all Hungarian troops in the imperial army should be kept as far away from the trouble spot as possible, knowing that most soldiers would be loyal to Budapest rather than Vienna.
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Nekem lámpást adott kezembe az Úr Pesten (1999)
Character: N/A
In the Kerepesi Street cemetery, three grave diggers contemplate the fate of the world, then they step out of this role and in a sequence of episodes they play the typical figures of contemporary Hungarian reality, the fat cat, the swashbuckler, the victim, underworld chieftains, and present little absurd dramas of love, marriage, friendship, public order and legal safety. The author and the film director walk among them all the time, contemplating, laughing at their plays. The stories starting from the graveyard and returning there warn of the inevitability of death. The author and the director (Gyula Hernádi and Miklós Jancsó) wisely make friends with death.
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Az orchideák bolygója (1976)
Character: N/A
A screen adaptation of Herbert W. Franke's science fiction novel "The Orchid's Cage". The story is set in a world where humans have been reduced to immobile plants, orchids. They are fed and entertained by machines. They have had everything in life, they have no need for anything but pleasure, and so they have gradually degenerated. Humans appear on the alien planet, but they too are just having fun. Soon they too become orchids.
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István, a király (1984)
Character: Sebestyén
István, a király ("Stephen, the King") is a Hungarian rock opera written by Levente Szörényi (music) and János Bródy (lyrics), based on the life of Saint Stephen of Hungary. The storyline was based on the play Ezredforduló (Turn of the Millennium) by Miklós Boldizsár, who co-wrote the libretto. The opera was first staged in 1983 on an open-air stage in Budapest. This first performance was also made into a 1984 film, directed by Gábor Koltay, and its music released on an album. The musical became a smash hit and is still very popular in Hungary and among Hungarian minorities in neighboring countries.
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Csillagosok, Katonák (1967)
Character: Istvan
In 1919, Hungarian Communists aid the Bolsheviks' defeat of Czarists, the Whites. Near the Volga, a monastery and a field hospital are held by one side and then the other.
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Sunshine (1999)
Character: Mr. Hackl
The fate of a Hungarian Jewish family throughout the 20th century.
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