Kapa's father
Jancsó’s farce, similar to the previous ones, is about our time and about death. Pepe marries into a family of mafiosi, with the father-in-law rolling in money. In a joint venture they establish the first Hungarian Prison Limited company, where there is a menu, the prisoners are residents, and they furnish the place of execution for those volunteering to execute themselves. It turns out that the first voluntary hanging should be demonstrated on Pepe. In 180 AD Emperor Marcus Aurelius is dying in Vindobona, being fed with blades of hay by uncle Miki himself, and his son Kornél Mundruczó. Kapa provides for communication: he insists on telling lies, lies and again lies. Furthermore, there are several to die and to revive, to win and to lose, and Melancholy Béla is still alive.
The film is composed around a violent incident, happened in 1956. Upon hearing the news that the Russians were approaching, the dwellers of the Home for the Disabled armed themselves. Followed by stares by people living in the area they marched along Hermina road, or went in wheelchairs, on crutches, hobbling, dragging rifles and a heavy machine-gun...
Pepe's boss / Suleiman the Magnificent
By the notes of Fiáth Pompeiusz, the one-time friend of Kapa and Pepe, Professor Szirtes has solved the secret of the time machine, and he realizes the invention relying on "special" H2O. Kapa and Pepe shall return by it into the past in order to set time right, which is out of joint, that is, to correct history, to save King Louis II, and prevent the Mohács Disaster. Pepe yields to the not too tender persuasion to enter upon the great journey through time, dies and revives, and they arrive at the battlefield of Mohács in time. Kapa films the events. The Turks win and cut off the king’s, Pepe’s, head, still the Hungarians dictate the peace treaty. Kapa and Pepe want to return, they fill the time machine up with water from the well, yet it won’t start. Even so Kapa and Pepe hover over Budapest and quarrel.
Cross
Steven Grant es un agente del FBI al que le encomiendan una tarea que no le gusta nada. En concreto, tiene que dar con el paradero e investigar a un vampiro que amenaza con desvelar las intenciones del gobierno, que al parecer ha ideado una especie de plan a partir del cual los vampiros se integrarían en la sociedad, junto con el resto de personas. Para investigar a un vampiro, nada mejor que otro vampiro, así que a Grant se asignan un compañero vampiro, con el cual tendrá que trabajar a partir de entonces. Ambos dan con Lucy, una vampira muy guapa, que seduce a Grant. Grant no se puede fiar de ella, pero está enamorado, así que lo hace. Gracias a Lucy, pronto se da cuenta de que las cosas son más complicadas de lo que esperaba, y ni los buenos son tan buenos ni los malos lo son tanto.
Péter
The story of the rogue sorcerer Simon Magus, re-imagined and set in contemporary Paris.
Recorrido por la historia política y social de Hungría a lo largo del siglo XX. Dividida en tres partes, la película está protagonizada por Ralph Fiennes, que interpreta a tres personajes de una misma familia pertenecientes a distintas épocas: un abogado judío de principios de siglo, un esgrimista olímpico cuya vida coincide con el nacimiento del fascismo, en 1930, y un activista político que asiste a la implantación del comunismo, en 1950.
Béla
George Kistiakowsky
En plena II Guerra Mundial, el científico Robert Oppenheimer se convierte en el jefe del Proyecto Manhattan, una serie de experimentos militares para construir la primera bomba atómica de la historia, antes de que lo hagan los alemanes. El general Leslie Groves será el encargado de supervisar el trabajo.
Starting with a scene from Squat Theatre's "Mr Dead and Mrs Free" shot in their storefront theatre on West 23rd Street, Chelsea, New York, "A Matter of Facts" draws a parallel narrative which follows the characters from the theatre into real life.
Captain
A Soviet sailor travels to the West for the first time. In Hamburg, he hopes to find his missing brother. But German secret service agents, inquisitive reporters and even his own countrymen are hot on his heels.
Writer
Película en color dirigida por Herskó János.
