András Bálint

A cardiologist is sent into retirement, but he feels at loss without his work. He returns to his home village to work as a general practitioner. This is the start of his ordeal: he's confronted with raw reality, which finally brings him to his knees. But music has the last word.

Tucson, Arizona, September 1996. At the request of his son Martin, George Goldsmith tells him of his past in Nazi Germany as a member of a family of Jewish musicians and the strange history of the Jüdischer Kulturbund, a Jewish organization sponsored by Reichsminister Joseph Goebbels.

Veronika and Tibor are soon to be retired doctors. For Tibor's birthday his wife gives him an unusal gift. A prostitute.

뒷돈을 받으며 수용소에서 난민을 빼내주던 부패한 의사 '스턴'. 어느 날, 부상을 당한 시리안 소년 '아리안'에게 중력을 거스르는 특별한 힘이 있다는 것을 알게 된다. '스턴'은 국경에서 헤어진 아버지를 찾아주겠다고 돕는 척 하며 '아리안'의 신비한 능력을 자신의 돈벌이에 이용하는데… 과연 소년은 인생에 희망을 가져다 줄 천사일까? 아니면 그를 추락시킬 악마일까?

This film is about the relationship of a mother and her daughter, the split-up of their family, the blessing and curse of belonging together and about coming of age - all this from the perspective of the young girl Aglaja. The story is based on real-life events, an Eastern European circus artist family that fled to the West. If they want to stay in the circus business they have to make up an exotic act. The mother spends all their money to buy a very dangerous act: hanging by her hair high up in the dome of the circus while juggling with burning torches. Every night Aglaja is terrified by the fear of losing her mother. But, on some day, she has to follow the family tradition and become the "Woman with the Hair of Steel".

Variations on relationships in a New Year Day atmosphere set in a huge and rundown 1980s style hotel awaiting demolition by Lake Balaton, Hungary. Three women and five men in various ways.

José Costa is a Brazilian ghost writer. Returning from a ghost writers convention his airplane is rerouted to Budapest. His life is also rerouted when he meets Krista and with her help, learns "the only language in the world which, according to the tongue-wagers, the devil respects.

1939: Rome stands on the brink of World War II. In the midst of this political and social tension famed producer Davide Rieta is making a major film. The two lead actors, the German woman Kristina Baumgarten and the English man James Clavel ace each others' initial antagonism and eventually fall in love. Meanwhile the fascist police are looking for an excuse to arrest the Jewish filmmaker and any other potential "troublemakers." The producer and his crew decide to make one final extraordinary effort to complete the film - against all odds.

Producer Carlo Degli Esposti envisioned a trilogy on Liberty, focused on three key moments in the second half of the twentieth century: the repression of Bucharest in 1956, the Prague Spring and the Berlin Wall. The first, and only time delivery of this trilogy, is THE TUNNEL OF FREEDOM. A tunnel that allowed 36 people to circumvent the strict and repressive surveillance of newly erected Berlin Wall.

1999년 어느 가을. 독일 사업가가 헝가리의 한 레스토랑을 찾는다. 작지만 고급스런 레스토랑. 그는 추억이 깃 든 시선으로 그곳을 살펴본다. 그리고 말한다. "그 노래를 연주해주게." 그러나 음악이 흐르기 시작한 순간, 그는 피아노 위에 놓인 한 여자의 사진을 발견하고선 갑자기 가슴을 쥐어뜯으며 쓰러진다. 놀라는 사람들. 그때 누군가가 외친다. "이 노래의 저주를 받은 거야. 글루미 썬데이의 저주를..." 60년 전. 오랜 꿈이던 레스토랑을 경영하는 자보(조아킴 크롤 분). 그의 사랑스러운 연인, 일로나(에리카 마로잔 분). 레스토랑에서 연주할 피아니스트를 구하려는 그들에게 한 남자가 찾아왔다. 강렬한 눈동자의 안드라스(스테파노 디오니시 분). 그의 연주에는 특별한 매력이 있다. 결국 자보와 일로나는 안드라스를 고용하게 되고... 일로나의 생일. 자신이 작곡한 ‘글루미 썬데이’를 연주하는 안드라스. 일로나는 안드라스에 대한 사랑을 확인한다. 그날 저녁 독일인 손님 한스(벤 베커 분)가 일로나에게 청혼하지만, 구혼을 거절하는 일로나. ‘글루미 썬데이’의 멜로디를 되뇌며 한스는 강에 몸을 던지고 그런 그를 자보가 구한다. 다음날, 안드라스와 밤을 보내고 온 일로나에게 말하는 자보. "당신을 잃느니 반쪽이라도 갖겠어." 자보와 안드라스, 일로나... 이렇게 셋은 이제부터 특별한 사랑을 시작한다. 한편 우연히 레스토랑을 방문한 빈의 음반 관계자가 ‘글루미 썬데이’의 음반제작을 제의한다. 음반은 빅히트를 하게되고, 레스토랑 역시 나날이 번창한다. 그러나 ‘글루미 썬데이’를 듣고 자살하는 사람들이 속출하자 안드라스는 죄책감에 괴로워한다. 그런 그를 위로하는 일로나와 자보... 하지만 그들도 어느새 불길한 느낌에 빠지게 되는데...

1982년 소련 돈강에서 실제로 있었던 살인사건을 재현한 미스터리 수사물.

1952, Budapest. Kati is thirteen years old when her mother dies. Her father works as a founder at the Miskolc foundry, deprived of his former position of director-engineer. Kati is left alone in their flat, transformed into a place crowded with tenants. That is, not quite: in her imagination her mother is alive again, for she still needs her.

The life and career of the brutal Soviet dictator, Josef Stalin.

Swedish account of Raoul Wallenberg, the man responsible for the largest rescue of Jews during World War II.

Jancso emphasizes highly evocative and ambiguous imagery over dialog or exposition. Here he seems primarily interested in showing the painful, stunted lives of Hungary's intellectuals, who are shown as remaining silent and ineffectual during various political crises. There are several action sequences involving chases and shootouts, but since there's no clear narrative we're not sure how they relate to each other or to anything else. The film is, however, visually fascinating, with shots of police cars, horses, and naked bodies juxtaposed and extensive use of multiple video imagery.

During World War II Eszter has to choose: she either follows her husband abroad, who is chased by the Gestapo or stays with her daughter from her first marriage.

Zoltai is a Hungarian professor who returns home after a visit to the United States. Following a television interview, he commits suicide and leaves a note for his longtime friend Dr. Bardocz. The doctor and Zoltai's colleague Komindi join the police in investigating what drove the man to suicide.

레들은 선생의 추천으로 사관학교에 진학하고 쿠비니와 친해져 그의 누이 카타린과도 알게 된다. 세월이 흘러 중위가 된 레들은 주위의 인정을 받고 로덴 대령의 신임도 얻는다. 그는 사창가를 출입하거난 반정부적인 불만을 늘어놓는 동료들과는 달리 상관의 명령에 충성한다. 레들이 중령이 되었을 때, 첩보활동을 위해 제국 중심지에서 일하게 되지만, 자신의 일에만 충실할 뿐 다른 군인들에게는 눈의 가시같은 존재가 된다. 그런데 군내부의 정치 싸움에서 진 로덴 대령이 이러한 레들을 적국러시아의 첩자로 만들어 황실의 희생양으로 삼으려 한다. 이를 눈치챈 레들은 정치가들을 증오하며 자포자기하여 평생 우정을 준 쿠비니의 권총으로 자살한다.

A mediocre countryside actress is invited to a Budapest casting call. She hopes she might become the new Marilyn Monroe.

Three thirtysomething chemical scientists, Laci, Gyuri and Kati celebrate the success of their development program before New Year's Eve with drinking for several days. But the morning of New Year's Eve does not bring the expected recognition, because the nice, bald, old director is replaced by a young, bald, but disagreeable one. In a sodden atmosphere it becomes clear that everybody has an axe to grind in the informative discussions.

"Budapest Tales" is about a group of people (consisting of Szabo regular Andras Balint along with Ildiko Bansagi and Karoly Kovacs) who find a broken down tram while trying to go to the city. The people band together and try to get the tram back on the train tracks and head towards the city. Along this journey the passengers encounter many people who join them on the tram. What started out as only a handful of people has now turned into a small village. As the people travel on to the city each person takes on certain roles and through the course of time these roles will change. Some people fall in love, others out of love, and a few even die. But life goes on. The people keep the tram going hoping to reach Budapest.

One day Novák Erzsébet kindergarten-teacher destroys her papers, cuts her hair and closes her mouth forever. She prepares for suicide namelessly, then somewhere around Normafa she accepts being taken into an asylum.

This lavishly spectacular film focuses on the character of Lorinc Parcen Nagy from the 1200-page Tibor Déry novel interwoven with numerous autobiographical elements. Lorinc Parcen Nagy is the offspring of an upper middle class family, whose life is marked by two violent deaths: the suicide of his father and the slaughter of an innocent worker. He breaks with his family and his mother in disgust; she is of weak character, a person who abandoned her own husband. He is also unable to discover the right tone with his colleagues and his lover who is an illegal party worker.

On one hot summer night, the residents of a Hungarian apartment house slated for demolition restlessly revisit their haunted pasts as they face an uncertain future. In a gently turning kaleidoscope of dream imagery, regret-laden nostalgia and painstakingly intimate detail, the looming wrecking ball pales in significance to the accumulated experiences each dreamer revisits. Pre-war prejudice, occupying Nazis and Stalinist deprivations all come and go as each tenant’s backward glance yields moments of aching sensuality, infectious exuberance and catastrophic loss.

개성 강한 작가 중에서도 가장 독창적인 작가로 평가받는 미끌로쉬 얀초의 작품으로 1972년 칸 영화제 감독상을 수상한 작품이다. 붉은 시편은 단지 28개의 쇼트만으로 구성되어져 있는데 그의 작품은 발레를 보는 듯한 인물들의 움직임과 역동적인 카메라를 워크, 탁월한 색채 감각이 빚어내는 생동감 넘치는 이미지들이 특징이다.

Trotta is a 1971 West German film directed by Johannes Schaaf. It is based on the 1938 novel Die Kapuzinergruft (The Emperor's Tomb) by Austrian author Joseph Roth. It was chosen as West Germany's official submission to the 45th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film, but did not manage to receive a nomination. It was also entered into the 1972 Cannes Film Festival.

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.

This film is a documentaristic dispute about the possibilities of young people to assert themselves, to make a career. Zsuzsa is a third-year university student studying pedagogy. She has been dating Zoltán for three years, and her thinking has been fundamentally shaped by this relationship. Yet now she would like to break up with him.

A story of two young people in Hungary, Jancsi and Kata. First they are good friends, later lovers. Soon after the 1956 Revolution Kata leaves Hungary, Jancsi stays there. After 10 years Jancsi is allowed to visit Kata in France, their love is reborn, but after a short, very happy period Jancsi has to return to Hungary and their love fades as years have gone by.

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.

1947년, 전국민중대학생연합에 소속된 청년 공산당원들이 교회와 중학교를 점령한다. 마르크스주의의 유효성을 토론하며, 학생들을 자극하는 청년들. 학생 몇 명을 체포하러 온 경찰관을 두고 거친 논쟁이 벌어지고, 리더인 ‘라치’는 자리에서 물러난다. 그의 권력을 이어받은 두 여학생이 사제들의 옷을 벗기고, 책을 던지고, 창문을 깨트리는 폭력을 행사하면서 사태는 더욱 악화되는데…. 혁명이라는 이름으로 자행되는 폭력의 악순환과 권력욕을 비판하는 강렬한 수작. (한글자막 제공_전주국제영화제)

The beginning shows Hungary devastated by the war and the postwar reconstruction with its communist government. Our hero (played first by Dániel Erdély and later, as a young man, by András Bálint) is clearly determined to find out what he can about his father who died young. All he knows is that he was a doctor and perhaps he was an honored victim of fascism. He never really finds out but his relationship with his mother, his friends and his Jewish girlfriend will make him totally independent of this need to find all about Apa or Father.

대학 졸업 후 연치와 친구들은 어른들의 사회로 첫 발걸음을 내디디며 많은 경험을 한다. 각자의 너무 다른 가치관으로 인한 갈등과 설상가상 친구 러치의 사망은 모두에게 큰 충격을 주는데... [시대의 욕망과 도전을 전하는 이슈트반 서보 감독의 자전적 영화]