Pál Jávor

Paris-based New York Herald Tribune reporter Jimmy Race (Andrews) is sent by his boss (Sanders) behind the Iron Curtain in Budapest to investigate a meeting involving the Hungarian ambassador.

Shown in Cannes 1947.

A mysterious woman brings disaster to a small country town.

Five friends, a piano-player, an actor, a critic, a doctor and a banker meet again for a twentieth school anniversary in the countryside mansion of the piano player. But the sudden arrival of an attractive woman upsets their peaceful plans...

Pálma, the spoilt daughter of the rich manufacturer, is a true monster in the house. The house staff flee her and even her father can hardly wait to marry her off.

In 1893, on an island in the Strait of Sicily, a woman is beginning to go crazy due to an officer that she loved leaving. When she believes a newly arrived official to be the man that left her, he plays along.

You can get anywhere in a tailcoat. Viktor Norton, a young man imprisoned by mistake, also knows this. In Viktor’s tailcoat, he can easily get to the Excelsior Hotel, where he will meet the newly wealthy Dupont couple and their daughter Marie.

Count Vághelyi Gusztáv is now a member of the Carthusan order. He has to be there at her ex-sweetheart's, Betti's deathbed. Longing for penitence, he recalls his life so far.

Klári lives in Pest with her widowed mother and works at a china-store. But she is a little clumsy and causes trouble everywhere.

Venice Film Festival 1940

Kovalszky arrives at the Danube-Bank Hotel as a foreign gentleman. Two members of the staff, Miklós, the waiter and Anna, the house-maid are planning their life together. Kovalszky makes passes at Anna.

In an outbreak of a rightful anger, Péter Keresztessy kills Ágota, his deceased wife's cousin, who, in an attempt to become her successor, speaks ill of her thus trying to malign her character. Péter is prepared for capital punishment but is sentenced for life. 15 years later he is pardoned.

Tamás Szánthó is conducting a concert, while his young wife and her secret lover play in the same theatre in the Tragedy of Man

Nothing new under the sun. The famous 'Love Story' is only a faint reminder of the most successful pre-war Hungarian film. The relationship between the painter and the busy girl, as well as the third one, still holds surprises for us today.

How did a beautiful American divorcee get into the bed of her best friend's fiancé right after returning to Budapest?

The Hungarian noble Nikki von Kormendy is traveling incognito as a blind passenger on the Danube ferry "Fortuna". Captain Korngiebel keeps him busy with various tasks. When the young singer Anny Hofer comes on board, both men fall in love with her and compete for her affactions. Out of sheer jealousy, Korngiebel lets his ship run aground and now fears for his captain's license. But Kormendy generously acquires the boat and leases it to Peter and Anny ... with the sole condition that the ship bear his name from this date forward.

Venice Film Festival 1940

The subject of this film is Dr. Ivan Egry, a young man, who becomes infatuated with Edit Ralben, the beautiful, but flirtatious, daughter of a prominent man. As the two get involved romantically, problems start to plague their relationship. When they end up separating, Ivan finds comfort with Josza, a pretty girl, much more stable than Edit, but far less glamorous. When Edit eventually re-enters Ivan’s life, he can’t resist her. Unable to resolve his conflicting emotions results in an abruptly tragic finale.

Theatre Colosseum prepares for the closing performance of the month. The magician Keats wants to avoid having to perform with Jack Carey, the well-known marksman, as the latter has seduced his wife, the beautiful dancer, Silvia Castellani. It is only thanks to the persuasions of Alice McLean, the manager of the acrobat sisters, that he finally decides to do his show. Carey starts wooing the second of the McLean-sisters, Gloria.

A 1938 film.

Another winner from Hungarian director Ivan Szekely (aka S.K. Seeley and Steve Sekely), A Nosty fiu Esete Toth Marival was released in English-speaking regions as I Married for Love. Feri Noszty (Paul Javor) is a handsome but irresponsible Hussar officer who prefers a life of wine, women and song to his military responsibilities. Unwilling to bow to family pressure, Feri refuses to marry heiress Mary Toth (Eva Szorenyi) for her dowry alone. But Mary falls in love with the prideful Feri, and to win his affections she poses as her own poverty-stricken maid. Based on a novel by Kalman Mikszath, A Noszty Fiu Esete Toth Marival was filmed simultaneously in Hungarian- and German-language versions.

Экранизация классического романа Мора Йокаи. Хозяин шахты в Бондаваре Иван Беренд живет только своей работой. Днем как директор и владелец шахты, ночью как учёный и изобретатель. Старый друг Беренда Феликс Кульман, богатый банкир, придумывает план по захвату его шахт. Красавица Эвила, в которую Беренд влюблен, кажется, ведёт двойную игру, помогая банкиру открыть новую шахту…

Героиня истории, действие которой происходит в Трансильвании, Рози Паткош Надь в канун намеченной свадьбы узнаёт о том, что она является незаконнорожденным ребёнком покойного еврея Саломона Блюма и его служанки Регины Вайс. Её, как теперь выясняется, ненастоящий отец Паткош Надь усыновил ещё в детском возрасте. После такого известия, жених девушки Андраш Барань был вынужден расторгнуть помолвку. Для христианских знакомых Рози (подруги Розали и её жениха) ничего не изменилось в их отношениях, её еврейское происхождение их мало беспокоит. Учитель также продолжает давать ей уроки венгерской истории. Трактирщик Хершкович нанимает её в качестве служанки и обучает элементам еврейской религии. Двойственность её идентичности никого не смущает: венгры относятся к ней как к венгерке, Хершковичи как к еврейке. Но однажды приходит клерк, который сообщает, что произошла ошибка, и Рози никакая не еврейка. Вновь начинается подготовка к свадьбе Рози и Андраша.

Древние семьи Конт и Хадхази уже давно воюют друг с другом. Лорд Конт — сторонник правления Вены, а Хадхази — приверженец венгерского революционера Кошута. Лорд планирует сразиться с Хадхази на приближающемся собрании графства. Вики, красивая и сообразительная дочь семьи Хадхази, непосредственно перед этим возвращается домой из швейцарской школы-интерната для юных девушек, исключённая из-за своего поведения. Вики, переодевшись в мужской костюм, отправляется защищать своего отца и с честью дворянина сражается с юным отпрыском враждебной ей семьи. Юношу зовут Фери Конт. Он принимает представившуюся юношей Вики за её брата Кальмана Хадхази. Политические конфликты между двумя семьями смягчаются любовными осложнениями. Проливается свет на недоразумение на окружном балу, и два враждующих лагеря примиряются благодаря любви Вики и Фери.

Выросшая в монастыре девушка, готовящаяся принять свой последний обет, Мария влюбляется в красивого артиста. Из-за глупого недоразумения она расстаётся с ним и выходит замуж за его лучшего друга. Разочарованный жених бросает мир искусства, чтобы стать всемирно известным концертным певцом. Спустя годы он возвращается, чтобы вернуть Марию, но обнаруживает, что она не только все еще жена, но также мать и преданная медсестра. Изящно попрощавшись с Марией, артист продолжает свою певческую карьеру, чтобы успокоить свое разбитое сердце.

Az Uj Foldesur (The New Squire) was based on a novel by popular Hungarian author Maurice Jokal, whose many works had previously been largely ignored. After the wars of 1848, a retired Austrian army officer "returns to the soil" as a gentleman farmer in Hungary in the 1850s. The old campaigner is the father of two daughters: One of the girls comes to a sad end thanks to the malfeasances of a handsome spy, but the other has a happier fate when she falls in love with a Hungarian POW. The underlying theme is brotherhood, as the formerly warring Austrians and Hungarians at last find a common ground. Az Uj Foldesur was nearly twice as expensive as the average Hungarian film -- but at $40,000, its budget was a drop in the bucket compared to a typical Hollywood production.

Dr.Halmi a nokkel szemben nagyon szigoru elveket vall. Alkalmazottkent irodajaban csak csunya noket tur meg. Igy mit tehet a szegeny allastalan titkarno? Egy paroka es egy szemuveg segitsegevel, ven satrafanak alcazva magat hamarosan az ugyved nelkulozhetetlen titkarnojeve valik...

The young, immature Zsuzsa Várkonyi becomes the president of the Várkonyi Textile Factory. When the managing director proposes to her, she tells him she is in love with a young engineer who she doesn't really know anything about.

An unemployed singer hits a girl with a car he has just stolen. She has no serious injuries but falls in love with the handsome stanger.

Одна из самых популярных венгерских комедий рассказывает о семье оборотистых предпринимателей, внезапно заработавших большое состояние. Несмотря на скромное происхождение, жена пытается вести жизнь аристократки и для начала нанимает дворецкого. С появлением в доме Ипполита, их жизнь переворачивается с ног на голову.

Baron Lóránt, now bankrupt for reasons for which he cannot be blamed, starts a new life in America, accompanied by Péter, his faithful valet. They both work as waiters in a bar. Things turn nasty when Lóránt recognises his uncle in one of the bar's customers. Embarrassed by his present job, he refuses to serve his uncle and is, therefore, promptly given the sack.

György Bánáth landowner and Miklós Vass the teacher, on the verge of collapse, trudging all the way from Siberia where they have spent more than ten years as POWs, trying to prevent each other from falling from fatigue on the way home. Both become regular visitors to the Pálffy family and they both make amorous advances to Katinka, the beautiful daughter of the local vicar.