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Ten-year-old Palkó has just moved home to Budapest from Berlin and observes the daily life of an ordinary Hungarian elementary school with confused amazement. Juci, the young teacher just started working there. She is the only one who understands Palkó, as in their own way, they are both suffering from the same, sometimes grotesque educational system.
Edina, a female bodybuilder, is ready to sacrifice everything for the dream she shares with Adam, her partner and trainer: to win the Miss Olympia competition. The odd love she finds on her way there makes her see the difference between her dreams and her true self.
A deep drama about life in Hungary after the WW2 until the revolt against Russians in '56. The main character is the head of the black market in Budapest. He thinks he can buy everyone and everything but at the end he must face that he can't buy life. A must-see for everyone. Casting involves some of the greatest Hungarian actors. The story takes place in the eighth district of Budapest focusing on the market place on Teleki square which is still working. The movie contains some archive footage of real fight during the revolution.
A pretty mixed society get together in a camping area. They enjoy their vacation and do not know that two of the vacationists are demolition experts, who are looking for a huge bomb which may explode in any minute. Written by Tamas Patrovics
In this comedy-filled drama, three underground Budapest taxi drivers, struggling to make ends meet, see their friendship tested by a sudden upheaval, forcing each to confront moral choices that could change their lives.
A young boy feels lost in the world. He only finds solace in his imagination. But it’s getting harder to escape from reality.
After a drug-fueled night in Budapest, a young man drifts through a sunny city hollowed out by politically captured institutions before retreating into a spiral of isolation, addiction, and compulsive desire.
This film is based on the logic of the associations, telling the story of teenagers of the day. Three boys find shelter from a storm in a villa at Lake Balaton. When the owners suddenly appear, only two of them can escape. Kiki is stuck in the larder. Waiting for his release, he recalls different stories in his mind, memories and the images of his imagination are mingled.
A hotel, a petrol station, a highway. A driver, a guest, a waiter, a hotel porter, a woman. Seemingly chance encounters. Fates. The short stories of Ádám Bodor in a film.
It's Zoé's birthday tomorrow, and she and her boyfriend are planning to go to her parents' holiday home by Lake Balaton. Next day's celebrations are not expected to offer any surprises. Zoé has never made so-called bad decisions, until today.
Biography of the African-American who became a major performer in the Paris cabarets of the 1920s and 1930s. The film follows her life beginning as a struggling performer in 1917 St. Louis, her frustrations leading to her move to France, and follows to her death in 1975. Written by John Sacksteder
A man who leads a lonely existence with his young daughter accidentally gets involved with a robbery before a manhunt ensues.
Ben Kline is an American television star and a bankable name, who is cast to portray the Hungarian writer Miklos Radnoti, whose journal of poems was found with his body, buried in one of Hungary’s mass graves. Kline is also the son of a Holocaust survivor and has long resented his father’s refusal to speak about the War. Now given the opportunity to play the role of a hero, but faced with the reality of a victim, the boundaries between truth and illusion begin to blur.
Bogi, a talented opera singer student, earns money by babysitting the children of her cousin, whose marriage is in crisis. On the day of her final exam, she is under pressure and commits an error while she is with the children.
A mythical “hen” rises from the factory canteen’s lake to gobble the golden egg that Marinka, the lunchroom maid, discovered in the ketchup—an egg that was supposed to launch an American-Hungarian joint venture but went missing amid corporate scheming and a police probe into a mysterious “spillage.”
Swedish account of Raoul Wallenberg, the man responsible for the largest rescue of Jews during World War II.
Dreaming about the Wild West in the 1970s in Eastern Europe is not enough...
