Margitai Ági

A retired woman hires a dance instructor to give her private dance lessons at her home -- one per week for six weeks. What begins as an antagonistic relationship turns into a close friendship as they dance together.

Un joven tuvo un hijo, Rudi, pero nunca supo qué fue de él. A los 17 años, Rudi, tras pasar toda su infancia en un orfanato, sale con la esperanza de encontrar el afecto de su madre y, sobre todo, de conocer la identidad de su padre; sin embargo, no será bien recibido. Casi por azar, Rudi acaba en un casting. El director, fascinado por su inocencia, cree haber encontrado al protagonista de su película. Pero, inesperadamente, la vida de Rudi da un vuelco espectacular: se convierte en un asesino perseguido por la justicia. Por su parte, el director se da cuenta de que ese chico extraño y silencioso es su hijo, un monstruo que él mismo ha creado. La única salida es acompañar a su hijo en su terrible destino con la esperanza de hallar una redención común. (FILMAFFINITY)

Set in a large apartment in Hungary during the death throes of communism, obedient Andor lives with his eccentric mother, Rebeka, a once-celebrated stage actress-turned-recluse. After years of coexisting in a love-hate relationship marked by routine and possible incest, Andor brings home Eszter, a beautiful girl his own age. Her advances awaken Andor's repressed desires, the depths of which prove shocking. Opera director Robert Alfoldi renders this bizarre story in a melodramatic style, and veteran Hungarian stage star Dorottya Udvaros rises to the occasion. If you can imagine the intersecting area on a Venn diagram that includes Taxidermia and Sunset Blvd., that's where Where Were You, My Son? was born. The original title, Nyugalom, which translates to Tranquility, is ironic to say the least. ...over the-top...memorable...thunderous...sex and violins (Variety).

A moving coming of age story in a time of extreme change: on August 23, 1944 in a small city in Romanian Transylvania, the 16 year old Felix Goldschmidt awaits his classmates for their traditional Exitus Party (school graduation). However, this very day the kingdom of Romania takes leave of its ally of many years - Nazi Germany - thus ending the 800 year old, highly successful story of ethnic German immigration at the feet of the Carpathian Mountains. It is a great story of young people's blindness to the rise of Fascism, the destruction of bourgeois values, a first love and shattered friendships.

Un músico poco sociable acoge en su casa a refugiados judíos. Son los años de la persecución nazi, y aunque el soprano Irme Rose es judío, su fama hace que su hogar se respete. La familia Halász se beneficia de la situación, y aunque nunca ven a Rose, todas las noches disfrutan de la voz, un momento de paz en medio de la pesadilla.

Using almost no dialogue, the film follows a number of residents (both human and animal) of a small rural community in Hungary – an old man with hiccups, a shepherdess and her sheep, an old woman who may or may not be up to no good, some folk-singers at a wedding, etc. While most of the film is a series of vignettes, there is a sinister and often barely perceptible subplot involving murder.

Una atribulada joven se dirije a Transilvania para localizar a su padre que, al parecer, se ha convertido en el rey de los vampiros.

In trying to bring a former concentration camp commandant to justice, Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal uncovers the tragic story of two lovers separated by the war.

Anna es una mujer judía que nace en Budapest, Hungría, en 1921. Junto a su hermano son educados en un ambiente privilegiado y de gran desarrollo cultural. Todo iba bien hasta el advenimiento de Hitler y su antisemitismo. Su sueño de estudiar en la universidad se frustra, pero descubre el sionismo y se replantea su existencia: primero, ella es judía, segundo, sionista y, finalmente, húngara. Sobre estas bases ella emprenderá una lucha constante contra los agresores de su patria y de sus creencias... Este film está basado en los libros "The Diaries of Hanna Senesh" y "A Great Wind Cometh", escritos por los verdaderos protagonistas de esta historia que transcurre en los tiempos de la Segunda Guerra Mundial.

A continuation of "Diary for My Children," the film picks up in 1950, when Juli, the diarist, is 18 and determined to become a movie director.

Hungarian family film.

"Ripacsok" is a great movie with great soundtrack, acting, cinematography, direction, etc. The world of "artists", hamming actors, good clowns and bad clowns... A unique movie in many ways. Pál Sándor is a very good hungarian director, watch his movies (especially the slightly better "Régi idõk focija") if you have the chance.

Dini goes to Sweden illegally and abandons his fiancée, Mari. After several months a young Finnish businessman called Pekka arrives in Budapest, carrying a letter and package from Dini. The sympathetic Pekka is judged by the friends of Mari to be suitable for the task of a nominal marriage, by which Mari could get out legally to Dini.

Winter of 1944, the last days of the war. When the roads and houses ceased to exist and the bottom of the cellars become filled with life, when fortunes were lost and countries burned up, her used coat was only important to Mama, the cloak-room servant of a local dance-school. Her son stole it to sell it for twenty pengő. He did it because Aranka Fussbaum's love cost money. There is no honour left in such a destroyed world. Yet still they start looking for that coat... (Elemér Ragályi won Best camera with this movie in Montreal, 1979, and in Budapest, 1980.)

This rhapsodic, grotesque and realistic film describes one and a half days of Gyula.

After his divorce, Bóna Péter, a beginner film director needs a bigger amount of money to settle his financial problems with his ex-wife. He travels to Pécs to see Sárika, an old veteran. He has not seen his aunt for a long time, and she receives him very friendly, but she flatly refuses to lend him any money.

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.

Mythomaniac teenager Anna tries to impress her schoolmates so she impersonates a journalist to meet her dancer crush who she said to be in a relationship with.

A comedy about a lost inheritance, love and a red umbrella, which, according to a local legend, belonged to St. Peter himself.

Panni, coming from a landless family of ten and Miska have loved each other for a long time. The pretty Panni, however, has another suitor as well: Komáromi, the big farmer. The two men fight from time to time, but then, during the time Miska is serving his military duty, Panni marries Komáromi to end the tremendous squalor of her family.

Dani, the few-month-old little boy born outside marriage is left by Eszter in the lap of her companion on the train. The widowed Aranka takes him willingly to her. The child is already ten years old and has a good life with Aranka. Then Géza enters their life and he does not welcome the child of someone else.