Zoltán Várkonyi

Zoltán Várkonyi

Birth : 1912-05-13, Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]

Death : 1979-04-10

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Zoltán Várkonyi

Movies

Black Diamond
Screenplay
Black Diamond
Director
Innocent Assassins
Director
Two arts students, András and Viktor who are writing their thesis on detective stories, make up a story and keep nagging the famous film-director, who just came back from Hollywood, until he undertakes the job. At night they work on the film, in which two youths kill a director returning from the US. In the morning the director is found dead - a knife in his back.
Kidnapping - Hungarian Style
Director
Three people skilfully kidnap the company director, who never takes the responsibility, takes sleeping pills and spends his time feeding ornamental fish. The kidnappers turn out to be no other than the Engineer, the Technician and the Worker, who only wanted to avoid bankruptcy this way.
Reménykedők
Mrs. Endrényi, an old woman in Old Buda learns that her house is going to be demolished and she is going to get a new apartment. Since she would like her family members to have the same advantage, she takes them in her apartment.
Charmers
Apa
This light comedy with grotesque elements tells the story of M, the young and beautiful model mother, who seeks happiness and a father for her precocious, but inventive daughter, Tündike.
Szemtől szembe
Director
The members of a rifle-corps unit gather in a village by the western border
Történelmi magánügyek
A light comedy of four love-stories.
Summer of Old Times
Adorján Béla, színházigazgató
Stars of Eger
Director
This romantic and grandiose historical film depicts the era of the constant incursions and heroic battles fought by the defenders of the castle of Eger, led by captain István Dobó, against the heavy odds of superior numbers through the lives and love of Bornemissza Gergely and Cecey Éva. Gergely is inaugurated as a fighter already at the age of 7, when he escapes the captivity of the half-eyed Turk, Jumurdzsak, with Vica and the war-booty. In thirty years' time he becomes the first assistant of captain Dobó and the brain of the castle in the defence of Eger.
Fiúk a térről
The story takes place during World War II and presents the illegal movement from inside. Some tough guys from the square have been angry with Albert Zoli, a boxer since he started living a decent life, passed the final examination at high-school, and entered a job as a bank clerk. About his illegal activity, however, they do not even have the slightest idea. With the help of Zsizsi, a young actress, and Diogenes, an extravagant tramp, he persuades the guys to join the movement. They distribute anti-Nazi handbills and paint pacifist slogans onto the walls of houses.
Mermaid on the Signet Ring
Dr. Sávos
The Gestapo is preparing for the liquidation of the Hungarian anti-Nazi resistance movement.
A Hungarian Nabob 2: Karpathy Zoltan
Maszlaczky ügyvéd
On the novel by Mór Jókai. The first half of the XVIII century. Several decades of life of a noble family Karpati.
A Hungarian Nabob 2: Karpathy Zoltan
Director
On the novel by Mór Jókai. The first half of the XVIII century. Several decades of life of a noble family Karpati.
Light behind the Shutter
Várszegi
Torday Géza, a new engineer arrives at the ammunition factory disguised as if manufacturing camping gears. His appearance upsets existing patterns. The director sells the products at a low price in the West. In the meantime diversionaries attempt to destroy the plant. It turns out that Torday is a man of the intelligence built in among the reconnaissance people, as is his childhood lover, Magda. Agents and policemen play the game.
A Hungarian Nabob
Maszlaczky
On the novel by Mór Jókai. The first half of the XVIII century. Several decades of life of a noble family Karpati.
Minden kezdet nehéz
The film is a cabaret style, satirical montage of the political events and everydays
A Hungarian Nabob
Director
On the novel by Mór Jókai. The first half of the XVIII century. Several decades of life of a noble family Karpati.
Story of My Foolishness
The celebrated actor considers his wife a nitwits actress of a mediocre talent. But an influential playwright, a friend of theirs, has written a play with the main role designed for her, Kati, particularly. Its title is "The Most Intelligent Woman in the World". On the day of the first night performance Kati recalls their past, the times she had together with her husband.
Sons of the Stone-Hearted Man
Haynau
Based on the novel of Mór Jókai. During the Hungarian independence war 1848-49 mother and her three sons trying to leave the road precisely designated by their conservative, stone-hearted father. The way-seeking and rivalry of brothers, Jókai's masterpiece, the cast, delightful scenes give an unforgettable experience.
Sons of the Stone-Hearted Man
Director
Based on the novel of Mór Jókai. During the Hungarian independence war 1848-49 mother and her three sons trying to leave the road precisely designated by their conservative, stone-hearted father. The way-seeking and rivalry of brothers, Jókai's masterpiece, the cast, delightful scenes give an unforgettable experience.
Darkness in Daytime
Róbert
In 1963 in Tihany, somebody addresses the writer Gábor Náday. He is reminded of a night drive in 1944 that saved his life. Painful memories start coming to Náday.
Haber's Photo Shop
Schultze
A priest who has been set free from prison recently joins a spy organization.
Haber's Photo Shop
Director
A priest who has been set free from prison recently joins a spy organization.
Hattyúdal
A past world is revived in the little cottage in the outskirts, next to the housing blocks under construction. Tamburás, the old hobo collects swerved youth: Diák, who desires freedom, the bus driver who is deprived of his license for having run over someone, and the rest. They have got an easy and unbound life there, with constant music, small thefts, occasional labour, tricks.
Csutak and the Grey Horse
Director
Csutak is just a pain in the neck, the little boy is even excluded from play by his mates. Vacation is spent lonely until one day he sneaks the woman haulier's old, shabby horse, a creature that would be better off in a slaughterhouse, out with himself. Possessing the animal is the key to the children's gang. They all try to find a place for the horse.
Három csillag
Actor
Három csillag
Writer
Három csillag
Director
Crime at Dawn
Director
Private inspector Hável happens to travel on the train which is attacked at Biatorbágy. His attention is drawn to a suspicious man, and in the next few days he confirms that it was indeed him who committed the crime. Yet the police accuses not the lunatic Marschalkó but the communists. Summary justice is declared.
Pár lépés a határ
Tamás Pokol
Sakknovella
Director
The Last Adventure of Don Juan
Don Juan
Hungarian film.
Iron Flower
Weiszhampt Jenõ
During the worldwide Depression of the 1930s, a young shopgirl is in love with a man of her own financial class, but succumbs to the seductive machinations of her wealthy boss.
Sóbálvány
Director
In 1944, Feri Margittai escapes from the front, but his mother sends him away from home.
The Bitter Truth
Writer
Sztankó János, the freshly appointed director of a company that builds agricultural factories meets his former classmate, Palócz. Palócz is just released from the prison where he got on made-up charges. Sztankó suddenly decides to employ the engineer since he wants to show up spectacular, quick results.
The Bitter Truth
Director
Sztankó János, the freshly appointed director of a company that builds agricultural factories meets his former classmate, Palócz. Palócz is just released from the prison where he got on made-up charges. Sztankó suddenly decides to employ the engineer since he wants to show up spectacular, quick results.
Georges Dandin
Writer
György Dandin, the rich bourgeois concludes a marriage contract with the noblemen Lükeházy couple who has turned poor: he can marry their daughter in return of a regular financial contribution. Angyalka escapes the undesired husband at their very first night, and furthermore she establishes a secret romantic relationship with Count Klitander who suits her a lot better.
Georges Dandin
Director
György Dandin, the rich bourgeois concludes a marriage contract with the noblemen Lükeházy couple who has turned poor: he can marry their daughter in return of a regular financial contribution. Angyalka escapes the undesired husband at their very first night, and furthermore she establishes a secret romantic relationship with Count Klitander who suits her a lot better.
Különös ismertetőjel
Director
Imre, secretary of the illegal communist party arrives in Budapest secretly in 1942, in order to start the newspaper of the party in the fight against war. Not even his own mother can see him.
Fourteen Lives
Narrator
September 1952 in a mine in Northern-Hungary after an explosion water breaks in from the neighbouring shaft and fourteen miners become trapped. The whole country unites to save them.
The Birth of Menyhért Simon
Director
Venice Film Festival 1954
The Sea has Risen
Vahot
March 15, 1848; the revolution breaks out in the town of Pest. Yet at café Pilvax, in among he revolutionary youth, there is the informer of the imperial court as well. Hearing the news of the attack led by Jellasics, the inhabitants of the villages pour into the national army, and Hajdú Gyurka also escapes from his landlord. Petőfi is there at the camp of the revolutionaries, raising them to enthusiasm with his poetry.
The Day of Wrath
In May 1919 in a small rural town beside Salgótarján the local high society wants to get the power back with the leadership of dr. Máriáss, exploiting the outside attack launched against the Republic of Councils.
The Day of Wrath
Director
In May 1919 in a small rural town beside Salgótarján the local high society wants to get the power back with the leadership of dr. Máriáss, exploiting the outside attack launched against the Republic of Councils.
Erkel
Turányi, chief music director
Nyugati övezet
comrade Mérnök
Nyugati övezet
Writer
Nyugati övezet
Director
Tüz
Vermes mérnök
1h 35min | 21 October 1948 (Hungary)
Hot Fields
Screenplay
Avary, himself a hustler, is jealous of his beautiful wife. He eavesdrops to catch Vilma, his wife, having supper with a neighbour on the terrace of their manor-house. He is about to shoot at the woman, but it is him who gets shot to death.
A tanítónő
Shown in Cannes 1947.
The Gold Watch
In the story, the golden watch is a metaphor: life of an individual for whom honesty is of real value. Uncle Bogdán is the one to have the golden watch, which is all the "fortune" he has, apart from Juci, his only daughter, who supports him
Kétszer kettő
The film is the simultaneous portrayal of the wedding ceremony and honeymoon of a city and a country couple.
Elkésett levél
The outbreak of war ends the love of Mária and Endre. Mária is still expecting the return of Endre, father of Anna, her daughter, who was born while her father was away. The war is long over. A few decades elapse, and a letter is accidentally discovered in a post office building now under reconstruction.
Hat hét boldogság
Writer
The Crucial Moment
Fiatal színész
Fekete gyémántok
Miner
My Daughter Is Different
Pista
Gitta is 20 years old, a girl with modern attitudes, who is courted by Ferenc Fekete. Not particularly liked by Gitta's parents, especially her old-fashioned father, Fekete dates Gitta in secret.
The Dream Car
Autóüzleti alkalmazott
A light hearted comedy, from the thirties. One of the most successful ones in Hungary. The ever enchanting story of a beautiful girl falling in love with a rich man.