Released Date:
1966-01-06
Languages:
Hungarian
Countries:
Hungary
Runtime:
90 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.9 (1493 Reviews)
Director:
Miklès JancsèIn Hungary, the national movement led by Kossuth has been crushed and the Austrian hegemony re-established, but partisans carry on with violent actions. In order to root out the guerilla, the army rounds up suspects and jails them in an isolated fort. The authorities do not have the identity of the guerilla leaders, who are supposed to be present among the prisoners. However, they know enough about some of the suspects to apply perfidious forms of coercion effectively.
Languages:
Hungarian
Countries:
Hungary
Runtime:
73 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.2 (311 Reviews)
Director:
Miklès JancsèGyula Hernèdi
Miklès Jancsè
Miklès Jancsè's Silence and Cry is set during a turbulent era of disquiet, fear, persecution and terror, which permeates every corner of post-WWI Hungarian society. In 1919, after just a few months of communist rule the Hungarian Republic of Councils falls victim to a nationalist counter-revolution. Admiral Horthy, leader of the nationalist far right movement, becomes the self-proclaimed regent of Hungary, and assumes power as the legal Head of State. Soldiers of the short-lived Hungarian Red Army are now on the run from relentless secret policemen and patrol units of the nationalist Royal Gendarme. If caught, ex-Red Army soldiers are executed without mercy or proper trial. Istvèn Cserzi, a former soldier of the Red Army has fled to the Great Hungarian Plains and has taken refuge on a farm, which is run by two sympathetic women. Due to the generosity of these women and a former childhood pal, who is now a commandant of the local Royal Gendarme outfit, Istvèn is safely hidden from the ever-prying eyes of the secret policemen, who relentlessly roam the countryside searching for ex-Red Army men and their sympathisers. However, upon discovering that the women are secretly poisoning the mother-in-law and the husband, the legal owners of the farm, Istvèn must make the most difficult decision of his life. As a personal war is waging within his own consciousness over morality and self-preservation, Istvèn must decide whether to remain silent about the women's devious secret and preserve his own life, or to report their heinous crime to the Royal Gendarme, which would also mean certain death for him.
Released Date:
1969-11-29
Languages:
Hungarian
Countries:
Hungary
Runtime:
95 min
IMDB Ratings:
8.3 (816 Reviews)
Director:
Zoltèn FèbriZoltèn Fèbri
Istvèn èrkèny (novel)
The Toth family resides in Northern Hungary. The couple has a daughter and a son, the latter a member of the armed forces. When his weary major is ordered to take a vacation, the son talks him into a visit to his family home. Comedy endues when the Toth's go overboard trying to make things pleasant for the visiting major in hopes of an easier life for their son the soldier.
Released Date:
1971-11-25
Languages:
Hungarian
Countries:
Hungary
Runtime:
90 min
IMDB Ratings:
7.9 (766 Reviews)
Director:
Zoltèn HuszèrikGenres:
DramaZoltèn Huszèrik (screenplay)
Gyula Krèdy (stories)
Jènos Tèth (screenplay)
An old man is recollecting all the women he met in his youth. An old woman wants them to commit suicide together but changes her mind. The little town has a doctor whose wife can not forget the old man, and the waiter who serves him his dinner doesn't know that Sinbad will soon court her.
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