József Madaras

Young honest public official is sworn in after his predecessor had to leave due to a corruption scandal. Soon, the young idealist discovers just how far-reaching the corruption is in his town and how easy it is to become corrupt yourself.

Weird Science Fiction. Directed by Ivan and Igor Buharov.

When Hungary's newest prime minister is shot and killed at a reception, the resulting investigation is necessarily swift and comprehensive. This compelling political thriller uncovers two prime suspects: the woman who guns the leader down, and a man who was friends with both the prime minister and his murderer. Using video surveillance footage, as well as other more artful and symbolic imagery, the noted "visualist" director Miklos Jancso, who is known for his craft in getting his points across non-verbally, combines fantasy and reality in a highly ironic manner.

Hungary, end of World War II. Five Hungarian soldiers desert their troop which has been directed to Germany. They are escaping with the help of a stamp and unfilled travelling warrants, trying to survive until the war ends.

Янчо в этом фильме дает крайне пессимистический прогноз относительно актуальных событий современности. Одной из сюжетных линий картины становится просмотр телевизионных новостей из Москвы, свидетельствующих о политическом хаосе. В стране произошел политический переворот, власть оказывается в руках некоего Комитета спасения, Михаил Горбачев арестован и казнен. Вскоре в Венгрию вновь входят советские танки и всех убивают.

Туристы приезжают в Венгрию, где посещают старинный готический замок, имеющий древнейшую историю. Именно в нем в 15 веке произошло массовое самоубийство людей-оборотней, тем самым попытавшимся предотвратить распространение этой чумы по всему миру. И вот, спустя пять столетий, должно состояться повторное открытие замка. По неосторожности один из туристов воскрешает затаившегося в глубине его души с незапамятных времен оборотня, который начинает истреблять непрошеных гостей…

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.

The unskilled, jack-of-all-trades András and his wife, Éva are put in jail for serial work-place thefts, -committed in order to try to ensure a normal living standard for his family - and for aggravated assault committed for self-defence, respectively. Their two small children are put in state care, then given to foster parents. András, still in prison, commits everything to help the released Éva get hold of an apartment and get their children back so that when he will have served his term the family could be together again.

A historical drama set in the 1400s, a young man sent to Italy but is forced back after his father's mysterious death.

More than a storyline with a beginning, middle, and end, this tale of a foundry worker who engages a woman -- and fellow worker -- to do housekeeping for him is a tale that holds up the Hungarian social system against the morality of an exploitative male-female relationship. After his wife dies, the rough-cut and intentionally nameless "man" (Jozsef Madaras) eventually coerces the "woman" (Julianna Nyako) into doing his housework for a small remuneration. Everything goes along passably well for awhile, until the man adds in more household responsibility in the form of chickens to raise. Due to extra work at the factory, the woman cannot tend to the chickens as she should and the result is that some of them die. The man is furious, verbally abuses her, and then rapes her. Later, the woman discovers she is pregnant, with dire consequences.

Драма повествует о сложных этапах становления венгерской государственности. Венгерская Советская Республика 1918 года и Вторая мировая война — два исторических излома, два периода бед и надежд.

Первая мировая война. Два сына крупного венгерского землевладельца Жадания отправляются на фронт. Они храбро сражаются и полны желания победить. Но война длится слишком долго, и солдаты больше не хотят воевать. В части, где служат братья, вспыхивает бунт. Старший брат Иштван приказывает расстрелять каждого десятого солдата. Вскоре в Венгрии происходит революция. Но новая власть продержалась недолго. В стране свирепствует террор, и братья принимают в нем активное участие. Но в душе Иштвана происходит переоценка ценностей, он пытается порвать со своим прошлым..

A World War II-style "war game" setting the wealthy customers against skilled mercenaries goes awry when the simulated war gets too real.

The film tells the story of a regiment of Hungarian hussars stationed in Poland. The hussars, mostly ordinary men, have heard news of the uprising and wish to return to the homeland to defend the newly independent country. The Empire, on the other hand, is firmly resolved that all Hungarian troops in the imperial army should be kept as far away from the trouble spot as possible, knowing that most soldiers would be loyal to Budapest rather than Vienna.

In 1950, when a young communist director arrives to take charge of a stud farm, his efforts to draw on the experience of the old hands there meet with little success. Indeed, so outraged are they at the changeover to communism that they harass him at every turn, especially after he treats a local barmaid as if she were a whore of some kind. After administering a beating to him, the old hands are nonetheless incensed when he calls on the police. The director doesn't get enough help, however, because the stable hands stab him before running off for the border.

"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.

Director Sandor Simo based this film on his recollections of a period in his father's life just after World War II. In the film, Janos Torok is a chemist and an entrepreneur With enormous enthusiasm, he gets loans to purchase a small chemical plant and begins experiments to create innovative products, such as hormones. Meanwhile, the communist party has come to dominate Hungarian life in such a way that his activities are viewed as little more than criminal. He is hauled away to a prison camp, but even then his letters home are full of boundless optimism and his ideas for further experiments.

An adult educator arrives in the small-town factory with loads of books, energy and a freshly received diploma. The honest young man with dreamy eyes humanises the life of the plant, in a way distributing himself among people.

This satire on film depicts the micro-climate of a technical vocational school newly established at a housing estate. The construction vocational school holds a name-giving ceremony, thus calling the attention of its supervisory organ to itself. The school-master distributes as well as receives presents from the sponsoring factory, and the pupils sit for a written examination of unheard-of material. The results are devastating, which the despotic school-master attempts to conceal by a staged disciplinary procedure.

Перед нами разворачивается трагическая история 7-летней хрупкой, как цветок крестьянской девочки-оборвыша, рождённой в 20-е годы 20-го же века, рано лишившейся родителей и вошедшей приёмной дочерью, а на деле — бесплатной, бесправной прислугой в чужую семью. Гордый характер Чорэ заставляет её бежать куда глаза глядят оттуда, где она терпит жестокие унижения, но новая удочерившая её семья оказывается ещё страшнее.

The film evokes the era of the 1831 cholera epidemic and the peasant uprising which followed it. The way of Doctor Balás, cholera commissioner, and district administrator Hunyor leads through the mountains of Zemplén and is lined by unburied corpses, peasants dying of the illness and of overdoses of bismuth, by the miserably starving population, the healthy digging mass-graves and by uncultivated lands.

While awaiting his release from the Soviet detention camp he is being held in, a half-starved refugee (Andras Ambrus) finds that an error has been made and his name is not on the to-be-released list. It is then that he is forced to assume the identity of a dead man whose name is on the list. Ambrus at first refuses, but because he was an orphan and cannot produce evidence of his true identity, he has no other choice. However, when he returns to the outer world and the community he was raised in, he is greeted with suspicion. When he tries to claim his part-ownership of a farm from his adopted uncle, he is refused and beaten by farmhands the uncle sets on him.

The film takes place at the end of 1946. Rumours are spread that the food supply will not arrive for it has been robbed. Workers of the metal factory go on strike.

This film, set at the beginning of the 17th century, is the first East-European "Eastern". Bocskai István orders the free Heyducks to shepherd a huge herd of cattle through the country torn to three parts, to the Dalmatian coast, where he can get weapons in exchange, for fighting the Austrians.

Минуло 15 лет, как убили Агамемнона. Его убийца Эгист отмечает очередную годовщину правления. В устроенный по такому случаю День Правды каждый может сказать Эгисту все, что о нем думает. Но народ безмолвствует. Эгист приказывает говорить правду, а в ответ слышит лишь похвальбы. Бунтовать пытается только Электра, дочь Агамемнона.

A musical farce about women in the canning factory. The pretty Brigitta tries to commit suicide, because Laci left her, pregnant, but her mates save her.

The scene is Ukraine. In 1943, after the Hungarian' defeat at the river Don, soldier Balogh decides to visit his family.

This film shows us around a factory in the seventies in Hungary. In the outskirts factory of Kőbánya workers celebrate the foundation members and want to present the oldest member, Uncle Benda, now a pensioner, with a golden ring. His grandson, Karcsi Merkovics, an industrial apprentice, is in love with the foreman's daughter.

The film is based on a true story. Jakus, managing director of a scooter-factory suddenly resigns, since he disagrees with his superiors in the ministry on several points. Disregarding the attacks of his family and friends, he returns to his original job and becomes a welder, which is not very easy because of his records.

The story of the film takes place in 1929 in a model prison providing a kind of reflection how society works out there. Udvardi, the weakling and indulgent director is experimenting with putting in practice a kind of pseudo-humanist utopia about the institution of a 'civilised prison'.

Feature film version of the 1971 series.

The narrative concerns the barbaric exploits of Attila The Hun and yet none of the characters ever leave the remote seaside stretch of land on which the film is set or do much of anything – with the ensuing moralizing interrupted only by the occasional (and equally obscure) music-infused rites.

Историческая драма о крестьянском восстании 1888 г. Этот фильм многие специалисты называют творческим пиком Миклоша Янчо. И не случайно, что, несмотря на острейшую конкуренцию, он был отмечен премией МКФ в Канне за режиссуру в 1972 году. «Красный псалом» можно выделить за наиболее последовательное выражение любимой стилистики Миклоша Янчо, сочетающей революционную форму киноязыка и сложнейшие моральные темы, связанные с обществом и революциями.

Фильм о подавлении революции 1919 года и возникновении фашизма в Венгрии. Отряд революционной армии совершает налет на деревню, оставив в живых только священника, который решается жестоко отомстить убийцам...

Everyone loves little Junior, but nobody has time for him. So Junior decides to find Time with the help of his friends - dwarves.

Barbara (Monica Vitti) is a journalist investigating the local counterculture who becomes involved, after an unpleasant start of battery and stalking, with Pierre Clémenti's louche all-around dropout.

It is the story of Bálint Balassi , the poet and warrior. The scene is Hungary at the end of the 16th century. The soldiers stationed at the castles of Hungary's border defence-system spend their days with anti-Turkish raids, hunting and womanising.

The film take place in Budapest, in the end of The World War II, telling the story of a young Communist who escaped from prison. The boy tries to revitalise his contact with the movement, but he is told to be quiet and wait.

The grotesque comedy with crime elements takes place in a grocery store.

The preparation, in Hungary, of the assassination in Marseilles of King Alexander of Yugoslavia in 1934.

Эсэсовский врач во время войны работал над сывороткой против рака, но выделил страшный яд -одной ампулы хватит, чтобы уничтожить 100 000 человек. Спустя 20 лет после войны старый нацист выходит из тюрьмы, за ним и его открытием начинается охота. Мафия жаждет получить это страшное оружие. Сам он также не прочь воспользоваться смертельными микробами для завоевания мира. Головоломные погони, сражения в воздухе и под водой, прыжки с вертолета без парашюта, пуговицы — гранаты, отравленные сигары, убийства по телефону…

An aspiring film student is denied a scholarship to the state-funded university when his father is thrown in jail. The man had stopped a train in order to facilitate the union between two old friends. The son then takes a job as a land surveyor and meets a Greek man who works towards the collective benefits of the peasants. The man is killed in a peasant uprising prompted by a bureaucratic boondoggle. The surveyor looks after the man's widow as his emerging political and social awareness leads him take a stand against government injustice. Another incident, in which gypsies are rounded up by state hygiene workers, further galvanizes the man's beliefs. He photographs the incident, and his work allows him to be accepted into the school from which he was previously denied admission.

Paralleling the dramatic student protests and riots that were exploding across the world in the 1960s at the time the film was made, The Confrontation is a story of protest and rebellion in 1947 Hungary when the Communist Party have just taken power. Jancsó's first colour film is another virtuoso display by a director at the peak of his powers, and eloquently explores the complex issues and inherent problems of revolutionary democracy.

Осень 1919 года. Венгерская Социалистическая революция пала под натиском хортистской армии. Остатки сопротивления жестоко подавляются. Действие фильма происходит на хуторе, затерянном в степи.

Végh Márta, the teacher is looking for her student Vadász Ica in the Buda villa, but she only finds the tenant, Mrs. Paár - dead. The investigation reveals that Mrs. Paár was murdered for an invaluable stamp, the "Fake Isabella".

Об участии венгерских красногвардейцев в гражданской войне в России. Разбит один из венгерских отрядов. Молодому бойцу Ласло удается бежать в монастырь, где расположились венгры. Но врывается отряд белых и расстреливает борцов за революцию. Однако татарину Чингизу, венграм Ласло и Андрашу, а также русскому матросу удается вырваться за пределы города…

Andras Kovacs' film, considered one of the most important Hungarian films of the 1960s, centers around four men who await trial for their involvement in the massacre of several thousand Jewish and Serbian people of Novi Sad in 1942. Each denies any responsibility, claiming that they were only following orders. The film is significant for its willingness to address the subject of Hungary's role in WWII, which was taboo at the time of the its release.

The film takes place in the outskirts at the end of the fifties. Gabi and Vince meet at the factory party. As the man learns that Gabi raises her little son alone, he does no longer want to marry her. An unclear and for Gabi humiliating relationship forms between them until the old suitor of Gabi, Feri appears.

В Венгрии конца 60-х годов XIX века подавлено национальное движение под предводительством Кошута. Восстановлено господство Австрии, но партизанская война продолжается. Чтобы окончательно уничтожить повстанцев, австрийская армия окружает большую группу подозреваемых и заключает ее в неприступный форт. Предполагается, что среди заключенных находятся и лидеры повстанческого движения, но опознать их никак не удается. И тогда к части заключенных применяются самые вероломные формы насилия для получения необходимой информации…

An ambitious theatre director arrives in Gyulaháza from the capital. The aim of the young Debrődy is to shake up the locals and turn the life of the town upside down.

Весна 1945 года. В последние дни освобождения Венгрии встретились русский солдат Коля и пленный венгр-гимназист Йошка. Дружба с Колей помогла Йошке правильно понять и оценить происходящие события.

Экранизация одноименного романа Эмиля Золя. Франция, 1863 год. Когда героя фильма Этьена Лантье увольняют из железнодорожной компании за его революционную деятельность, молодой человек устраивается на работу в одну из шахт на севере страны. Крышу над головой ему предоставляет один добрый местный человек, тоже шахтер, чья дочь выказывает явную симпатию Лантье. Работа в шахтах оказывается чрезвычайно тяжелой, опасной и низкооплачиваемой. Тогда герой картины «Жерминаль» решает организовать забастовку рабочих, которую власти безжалостно подавляют...

Едущие в поезде пять членов бригады монтажников рассказывают пассажирам переполненного вагона пять историй из жизни своей бригады, посвященных Карло — старшему среди товарищей, всеобщему любимцу и весельчаку, совести и душе коллектива.

Снятая по роману Лайоша Кашшака кинолента изображает изнурённых и обездоленных людей, работающих от зари до зари. Доведённые до отчаяния, они решаются на своеобразный бунт — отказываются платить домовладельцу за жильё.

Молодой кровельщик Граци связался с бандитом Визашем и был арестован за кражу, но не выдал соучастников. По отбытии тюремного заключения он снова вернулся к своей работе. Ни мастер, ни товарищи по работе не знали о прошлом Грация. Случай снова сталкивает Граци с Визашем. Будучи свидетелем кражи бандитами крупной суммы денег, Граци опять не выдал бандитов. Однако после некоторого размышления он с помощью любимой девушки выполняет свой гражданский долг и задерживает бандита.

Первый художественный фильм режиссёра Миклоша Янчо не содержал в себе каких-либо признаков, которые позже стали неотъемлемыми для знаменитого "стиля Янчо". Он обращен к антифашистской теме, взятой в нравственном аспекте. В фильме рассказана история группы подростков, которые были призваны на фронт в последние недели Второй мировой войны и нашли убежище на небольшом острове.