Sándor Szabó

Prinzenbad gives us a microcosm of a society dominated by male power plays, wheeling and dealing, corruption, love, and eroticism.

Un director de orquesta es contratado para dirigir en París la ópera de Wagner "Tannhauser". Sin embargo, cuando llega a la capital francesa, tropieza con toda clase de obstáculos para realizar su trabajo: unas veces debido a las exigencias de los sindicatos y otras a causa de los caprichos de algunos cantantes. Así, su primer encuentro con la diva es frustrante, aunque acaban viviendo una apasionada historia de amor.

Insulted when his screenwriter wife writes a leading role for a younger man, aging Broadway idol Fitz Wynn disguises himself as a handsome young Italian.

The Soviet-Hungarian film version of the biography of one of the most talented composers of our time, the classic of the Vienna operetta - Imre Kálmán, known for all his music for operettas "The Csárdás Princess", "Countess Maritza", "The Circus Princess", "The Violet of Montmartre", "Die Bajadere" and many others. The music of Imre Kálmán has no equal in operetta for its festivity, “elegance”, and the refinement of melodics and orchestration.

The Hungarian Maria's Day is set in that most fateful of years, 1848. The incredible changes and reverses in European politics and culture exert a potent influence on one aristocratic Hungarian family. Losing virtually everything in the way of creature comforts, the family tries to keep up appearances. Eventually every member of the clan falls victim to illness, syphilis and their own headstrong foolishness. The parallels drawn by director Judith Elek between the dissipation of 19th century Hungarian aristocracy and the corruption of Communist ideology in modern times are inescapable.

Vuk es el pequeño de una familia de zorros al que su madre acurruca con sus hermanos para el descanso nocturno, mientras el padre aprovecha la oscuridad de la noche para salir a cazar. El pequeño Vuk siente curiosidad por saber cómo se las compone su padre para conseguir el alimento que los sustenta... y sigilosamente abandona la madriguera para seguirle. Esta travesura hará que se pierda en el bosque y le salvará de una muerte segura, pues el implacable humano ha dado con la madriguera del zorro acabando con sus padres y hermanos. Triste y solo en el bosque, Vuk tiene la suerte de encontrar a su tío Karak, quien se hará cargo del pequeño enseñándole todo lo necesario para subsistir y previniéndole de la maldad del humano, que no mata sólo para sobrevivir sino también por placer...

The romantic story takes place in the time of Napoleon in Hungary, near Fertő-lake. Count Vavel hides here the French heiress from the revolution and Napoleon.

Drama húngaro que muestra los efectos de la esterilidad y los celos en un matrimonio, sobre el trasfondo de la Segunda Guerra Mundial y la creciente persecución de los judíos por parte de los nazis.

One morning, the caretaker of the student hostel of the University of Horticulture finds Citrom Flóra and Bohus Tamás, by the purest accident, in one bed together. Both are dismissed from university. During the appealing procedures they fall in love with each other.

The university student couple, Andris and Mari, cross Nemesbérc during their summer vacation, to hasten the laying of a memorial stone to the memory of András's martyr father.

After the breakup of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, a young Hungarian, wanted by the police for political crimes, escapes to just this side of the Austrian border. When he discovers that his escape contact has been shot, he disguises himself as a woman and, posing as a maid, takes refuge at a tuberculosis sanatorium. He lives there as a woman for the entire winter before resuming his journey in the spring.

Adaptación del famoso relato de Perrault sobre un cruel asesino en serie de mujeres. El Barón Von Sepper (Burton) es un excéntrico y frustrado aristócrata que vive recluido en un siniestro castillo. Acaba de contraer matrimonio por octava vez, con Anne, de la que parece estar muy enamorado. Un día, ella descubre casualmente el espeluznante final que tuvieron las siete esposas que la precedieron.

Copenhague, Dinamarca, 1962. Cuando un alto funcionario soviético decide cambiar de bando, un agente de los servicios de inteligencia franceses se ve envuelto en una fría, silenciosa y sangrienta conspiración en la que su propia familia desempeñará un papel decisivo…

An American spy tries desperately to get out from behind the Iron Curtain with some crucial microfilm with the Communist security police close on his heels.

On the novel by Mór Jókai. The first half of the XVIII century. Several decades of life of a noble family Karpati.

Helen Lester is in love with a man she has known just 24 hours, a playboy who spent time in jail for passing bad checks. Though the man has promised to change, most of her strait-laced relatives are up in arms. But Clare Lester, Helen's grandmother, says the girl is free to join the man she loves. On one condition, that she listen to the story of a day in Clare's own life and of a man she tried to change.

The tyrannical king is afraid of his people. He can only find peace if everyone wishes him well when he sneezes. Catchpoles raid the country and give orders what the king wants.

Después de ser abandonado por su novia, bebedor y deprimido Mark Cormack (John Payne) pierde su trabajo en la oficina del fiscal de distrito de Los Ángeles y sirve como gorila en un casino de Las Vegas. Barzland (Francis L. Sullivan), un extraño inválido, lo contrata para localizar un rubí que desapareció en un accidente de avión en el Caribe. El ex-detective vuela a la remota isla de Santo Rosario para encontrar la piedra e investigar el misterio y....

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.

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.

Különös házasság is a 1951 Hungarian drama film directed by Márton Keleti. It was entered into the 1951 Cannes Film Festival.

The story, which takes place in the reform era, centres around Mrs. Déry, a legendary actress, who, along with her fellow actors and actresses, travels around the country to become the herald of the Hungarian language, performing in villages and towns up and down the land as strolling players, a woman who is not put off by the prospect of starvation and the dearth of a home to return to and security to live in.

1h 35min | 21 October 1948 (Hungary)

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 female spy goes to Budapest to steal the plans of an anti-aircraft gun.

El empresario Joseph E. Davies es nombrado por el presidente Roosevelt embajador de los Estados Unidos en la Unión Soviética para que averigüe cuáles son las intenciones de este país respecto a la inminente Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945). El embajador se llevará algunas sorpresas en una nación que pocos conocen realmente.

A group of Russian nobles fleeing the Bolshevik revolution meet up with a traveling circus. To escape their pursuers, they disguise themselves as members fo the circus troupe.