Péter Scherer

This film is a tribute to a humiliated and destroyed nation. "As Long as the Grass Grows" is an alternative, ancient and humble creation story, where man is not the crown of the creation, but the weakest of all creatures. The film takes us back to the beginning of time, where Old Man begins to create the world out of a handful of mud. Everything he creates is new and nameless, and affects the rest of the world. Even feelings and desires are unknown and when they emerge, the world becomes more and more complicated.

A popular writer with lack of inspiration (Szabolcs Thuróczy) and his never-seen son meets unexpectedly. From there they have to deal with living with the other in joy, in emtions and with the imagination of the child, this tales goes beyond reality.

1963년, 부다페스트. 첩보부 대령 ‘언드라시 융’은 아내인 ‘에버’와 행복한 결혼생활을 유지하며 부족할 것 없는 삶을 누린다. 승진 욕구가 강한 그에게 유일한 장애물은 늘 경쟁구도를 이루는 동료 ‘쿨차르’ 뿐이다. 어느 날 전설적인 스파이 ‘팔 머르코’가 부다페스트로 돌아오면서 상황은 복잡하게 전개된다. 무엇도, 누구도 믿을 수 없고, 작은 몸짓 하나로 목숨을 잃을 수도 있는 무자비한 전쟁이 시작된다.

A firefighter develops a fear of heights and has strange visions after his wedding proposal goes up in smoke. Will a teacher he meets later cure his vertigo and mend his broken heart?

The police hire a convicted bank robber to crack the Ministry of Interior's vault during the final days of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. But what they find inside is quite different from what they were expecting.

1848년, 권력다툼으로 인해 아버지가 죽고 홀로 남겨진 어린 ‘에노’ 25년 후, 복수의 꿈을 꾸며 자란 ‘에노’는 혼란스러운 나날 속, 볼품없던 말 ‘킨쳄’을 명마로 키워내 가문의 명성을 되찾는다. 하지만 그는 자신에게 허락되지 않은 여인 ‘클라라’에게 매혹되고 그들의 비밀스러운 관계는 파국을 불러오는데…

1848년, 권력다툼으로 인해 아버지가 죽고 홀로 남겨진 어린 ‘에노’ 25년 후, 복수의 꿈을 꾸며 자란 ‘에노’는 혼란스러운 나날 속, 볼품없던 말 ‘킨쳄’을 명마로 키워내 가문의 명성을 되찾는다. 하지만 그는 자신에게 허락되지 않은 여인 ‘클라라’에게 매혹되고 그들의 비밀스러운 관계는 파국을 불러오는데…

1945년 홀로코스트 강제수용소에서 해방 된 25 세의 헝가리인 '미클로쉬'는 스웨덴 병원에서 치료 받는다. 의사들은 그가 심한 폐질환 때문에 6개월 이상 살기 어렵다고 진단한다. 그러나 그는 포기하지 않고 함께 새로운 삶을 시작할 수 있는 아내를 찾고자 스웨덴에서 치료받고 있는 117 명의 헝가리 소녀들에게 편지를 보낸다. 소녀 중 한 명인 19 세의 '릴리'는 미클로쉬와 교감을 느끼고 그와 편지를 주고받기 시작한다. 사랑이 모든 것을 치유한다는 메시지를 담은 작품으로 원작 소설가이자 감독 부모가 겪은 실화이다.

Novák cannot sleep. Not to disturb his girlfriend, he spends his nights in the streets of Budapest and gets into weirder and weirder, more and more impossible and dangerous situations and liaisons. Unless he dies, he may regain his dreams by them.

Andor is a young chess player, who even calls his pet turtle Kasparov. “Do you think I will succeed? - the boy asks her before the decisive tournament. "If I win, he will never come back." Who is Andor talking about and why is he either afraid of this return, or wants it?

This is the story of present-day Hungary's most famous gay celebrity who openly admits his homosexuality and fights for gay rights in a society where so many alternative values are denied. But then something happens and he is shocked to discover his growing interest in the female of the species.

Budapest, Hungary, Christmas 1957. The state, insecure after the defeated revolution of 1956 and increasingly put under the influence of a renewed Stalinist atmosphere, has decreed that all security officials must pass an exam to verify their loyalty. But to be actually effective in a shadowy world where suspicion and secrets reign, the subjects must be unaware that they are being tested.

A man pretends to be a manager and helps veteran rockstar god, Johnny G. and his ex-band to reunite once more.

Concerning the Mátyás era in Hungarian history, during the reign of Matthias Corvinus (1443–1490), the film focuses on three eras of the king's life: the young Mátyás fights for the throne, the older Mátyás as king, and the fate of the royal crown and the royal heir after his death.

After they got imprisoned, small-time criminals Kuplung and Csumpi tell their stories to their cell-mate of how they have planned the most imperfect robbery. Their big idea was to rob the Money-liquidation Warehouse. The movie shows how they fielded a team to execute the robbing and how everything went wrong.

모두가 서구로 망명하던 60년대 중반, 미키는 부모님을 따라 공산주의 국가 헝가리로 돌아온다. 미국의 자유로운 문화에 적응해있던 미키에게 독재국가의 삶은 너무나 고달프다. 어릴 적 친구들은 미키의 화려한 의상과 미국식 발음, 버디 홀리 레코드에 어색해 하기만 하고, 미키의 첫사랑은 그에게 냉담하기만 할 뿐이다. 동네의 터프가이 로네는 미키의 로큰롤 도전에 눈도 꿈쩍하지 않는다. 설상가상으로 미키의 음탕한 음악이 십대 소녀들에게 어필하게 되자 당국은 아버지를 직장에서 해고하려 한다. 이제 공산주의 사회의 규칙을 따라야만 하는 상황. 그러나 이를 돌파하기 위해 미키는 지역의 장기자랑에 나가기로 결심한다.

Karcsi, a Roma policeman, lives with Eva, a Swede. One day he is called to the scene of the murder of a wealthy trafficker named Schulter. He begins to investigate the crime, interrogate neighbours and suspects, and untangle a complex situation - one that he, himself, complicates even further. For he is a gypsy, who despite being adopted and raised by "regular" Hungarians, has his nose rubbed in his minority status every day. The film, which is based on the novel by Ákos Kertész, is a shrewd genre work full of dusky humour and surreal situations. Tabló follows a vivid succession of strange images that eventually lead to the emergence of the central story about a charismatic police officer on a tireless quest for the truth, though he must fight against virtually everyone and is just as fallible as the next person. Tabló makes a statement on the issue of race and racism - or, indeed, relations between any minority and majority.

Too engaged in his sexual pursuits to offer his editor any decent material, David, a self-centred journalist, is challenged by his editor to go on ten dates with ten different women and publish the results in a tell-all book. His former girlfriend is then hired to type up his notes

The story is based around an American Idol kind of TV talent show and the eventual winner of the contest: a young orphan woman, who works at an orphanage herself. As I learned from the werkfilm on the DVD, the story was specifically written for Oláh, who in real life was the runner-up of the very first such TV show in Hungary “Megasztár” (“MegaStar”) in 2004. She didn’t win there despite being many viewers’ favorite and having a terrific voice. It is kind of a consolation that she won in the movie, although reading the legal troubles about getting her fee must have made the victory sour.

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.

László Dömötör, az elvált anyakönyvvezető a volt feleségétől éppúgy nem tud szabadulni mint a házasságoktól. Elszántan próbál új szerelemre találni, kevés sikerrel. Miután Dömötör feszültségoldóként bepiál a munkahelyén és az egyik esküvőt fenekestül felfogatja, a főnöke kirúgja. Távozás közben megpillant egy tudósítást Lázár Norbertről, a feltörekvő, félvilági producerről, aki éjszakai klubokat üzemeltet. Meg nem erősített hírek szerint életét vesztette Afrikában. A férfi megszólalásig hasonlít rá. Mindez őrült ötletre sarkallja. Az 1942-ben készült vígjáték modernizált feldolgozása.

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...

One day in Europe shows stories set in four European countries. All of them involve thievery in some way or the other. The protagonists are strangers in the respective country. For none of them their stay turns out as planned.

The crew of Tibi Balogh sets out on a journey across Hungary to get the ancient Gold Owl statue, as well as the Milk Man. The treasure is worth millions, who gets there first?

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.

Magyar vándor is a 2004 Hungarian action comedy film directed by Gábor Herendi and starring Károly Gesztesi, János Gyuriska and Gyula Bodrogi

20대의 벌추는 직장인 지하철에서 겪는 문제들로 골머리를 앓는다. 가지각색의 에피소드 중에는 스스로 승객해방연대의 일원이라고 주장하고 다니는 로드러너와 항상 테디 베어 옷을 입고 다니지만 벌추의 마음을 단번에 빼앗아버린 소피가 등장한다. 그러나 이들 사이에 어두운 그림자가 끼어들기 시작하고, 그들을 기다리는 것은 선과 악의 마지막 대결이다. 부다페스트의 언저리에서의 삶을 빠른 속도로 유머러스하게 보여주는 이 작품은 카메라 앵글 속에 현실에서 도망치려고만 하는 부적응자들에 대한 은유를 숨겨놓는다.

The Hungarian version of the "The Seven Samurai" and "The Magnificent Seven".

This time, Kapa and Pepe are first of all prisoners of war – and convicts taken to forced labor service, Jews, Hungarian soldiers, German soldiers. Once they are to be executed, then again they are to perform executions. The film tells in spectacular episodes about the fact that in the past more than one century and a half we kept marching from war to war; occupation and liberation turned out to be indifferent, and why couldn’t the Jews execute the SS-guys? Our heroes hover about dilapidated barracks, then again on the bridges of the capital they guess whose satellites or eternal friends for all times we might be just now. In the cupboard, among the preserved fruit bottles, Stalin is still hiding. The authors of the film are cited before court, then in a showcase hospital they are waiting for the end to come. A Soviet soldier-maid closes the film with a Péter Nádas-quote.

In the week of the book an interview is made with the writer Péter Simon, whose first book of short stories appeared in the prime of his life.

Waiters’ competition at Heroes’ Square in the late thirties. Dressed as waiters, Kapa and Pepe awake in the bronze chariot of the millennial sculpture group. They drive along the Danube promenade, and on the concrete reinforcement of the demolished Budapest rondella hotel they get involved in a showdown of political background. In the burnt-down Sports Hall the waiters train for a last supper, Pepe and Kapa run around the big laid table with trays in their hands. While doing so, Pepe keeps crying out: "I am the best one, I am the most beautiful one, I am the king, I am the god..." Sitting in a boat on the Danube, a ship goes past them, and the Niagara falls, majestic and breathtaking, resound in their ears. On each passing away something new will come to life – as rapped by Sub Bass Monster.

Kapa, Pepe and Mesi would like to buy a scrapyard of trains, to start a nostalgia train and earn a lot of money. The capital to start with they want to get from grandpa, who has come home from America with a suitcase full of money. Everybody wants Mesi to approach the old man, because she is the only one he would speak to. But Mesi is more concerned with the idea that she wants a child, by now from anyone, while Pepe is jealous. Kapa’s alleged son emerges, with the mafia behind him: they, too, are eager to get grandpa’s money. After threats and blackmailing, poisoned apples are sent, with only one side of them poisonous. Those dead, by the way, are resurrected by the sound of a song. At last, nobody manages to get the money, but it wouldn’t make sense anyway: it’s all fake. The Statue of Liberty, however, turns out to be blind.

In the Kerepesi Street cemetery, three grave diggers contemplate the fate of the world, then they step out of this role and in a sequence of episodes they play the typical figures of contemporary Hungarian reality, the fat cat, the swashbuckler, the victim, underworld chieftains, and present little absurd dramas of love, marriage, friendship, public order and legal safety. The author and the film director walk among them all the time, contemplating, laughing at their plays. The stories starting from the graveyard and returning there warn of the inevitability of death. The author and the director (Gyula Hernádi and Miklós Jancsó) wisely make friends with death.

1979. Gábor H. works in a law enforcement institution. He robs a bank branch, gets into jail. 1989. Gábor H. and the similarly unemployed Sanyi want to get money by robbing.