Frigyes Gödrös
Writing
Biography
Frigyes Gödrös ( Budapest , August 8, 1942) Béla Balázs award-winning Hungarian film director, screenwriter, actor. His parents were Imre Gödrös and Gerda Büntzly. Between 1958 and 1963 he graduated from the Conservatory. Between 1965 and 1970, he was a student at the College of Theater and Film . Between 1970 and 1972, he was a dramaturg, assistant and screenwriter at the Hunnia Film Studio. Between 1972 and 1975, he worked at the News and Documentary Film Studio. From 1975, he worked for the short film department for five years, where he produced reference films, screenplays, and a TV film about the anti-alcoholism movement. Between 1981 and 1987, he was the managing director of the Balázs Béla Studio , then directed at the Studio of Young Filmmakers, Focusfilm Kft.
Known For
The tumultuous history of Hungary through the twentieth century is viewed through the saga of the Hungarian-Jewish, furniture-manufacturing family, the Vendels. After taking over the once successful, but now failing, family business in the 1930s, the family patriarch's dashing elder son decides that the family needs an infusion of new blood. A matchmaker presents him with a photo of a pretty German nursery school teacher. When the two meet, they instantly fall in love, but because Hungary has an alliance with Germany, and the Third Reich prohibits marriage between Gentiles and Jews, the couple must hide their union. Their marriage ultimately stands as a dark foreshadowing of rougher times to come as troubles ensue with the advent of World War II, when the family, its employees and servants must retreat to the basement, where the shop emerges increasingly as a refuge in a world growing more violent and less tolerant.
Glamour
The film, taking place in 1950, presents the story of Father Leopold and the monks of his order struggling to once again revive Christianity in a country trying to scrape itself together after the war. Initially, the communist powers do not hinder their work, and the Church was even able to regain possession of holy objects hidden during the war. This "peaceful" state does not last long. Father Leopold is arrested on trumped up charges, and in order to break him, he is subjected to cruel torture. His former student, Lieutenant Keller, who turned his back on religion and now believes in the socialist system, is appointed - upon the command of Major Fyodorov - to extract a confession of guilt. But the Father's perseverance and resistance changes everything.
Hungarian Passion
A Fiatal Magyar Filmkeszitok Studio-Quality Pictures production.