Éva Zsurzs
Directing
Biography
Éva Zsurzs was a distinguished Hungarian film director and screenwriter, renowned for her adaptations of literary works. She was a founding member of Magyar Televízió (Hungarian Television) and directed over 100 television films and plays. Her notable works include A koppányi aga testamentuma (1967), Barbárok (1966), and Különös házasság (1984). Zsurzs's contributions significantly shaped Hungarian television and film, earning her the Kossuth and Jászai Mari awards, as well as the titles of Meritorious Artist and Outstanding Artist.
Known For
The story takes place during World War II. Vitay Georgina is enrolled by her father, General Vitay, in the completely closed, residential Calvinist Matula Girls' Institute in the town of Árkod, on the outskirts of the country. He does not tell Gina why, as her new classmates would accept her, but after she fights with them over a silly game and betrays them, she is ostracised.
Abigel
István Pongrácz, lord of the castle of Nedec, is a strange man. He does not like his own time, so he imagines himself as a medieval lord of the castle. His surroundings also accept his whimsy, and in this way they give him a horse to ride. Like centuries before, he launches a campaign against the disobedient city of Banská Štiavnica. In their great embarrassment, the serious city fathers offer the haughty warlord a ‘hostage’: Apolka, the city’s orphan. Her presence changes Count Pongrácz, who grows fond of the beautiful and innocent creature. But Apolka’s heart belongs to another.
Beszterce ostroma
Hungarian mini-series.
The Black City
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A névtelen vár
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Abigél
The story of a murder out of jealousy. After his release from prison, the perpetrator tells the story of his marriage and tries to understand the reasons for his actions.
Kreutzer Sonata
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Miért beszél annyit Mrs. Piper?
Feature film version of the 1971 series. On the eve of the 18th century, County Vicecomes Görgey Pál broods alone in his manor while the town of Leutschau celebrates New Year’s with lead‐casting omens and a disastrous hunt that sparks a bitter feud. As Görgey fights for his honor and life, and the townspeople defend their Saxon privileges, their mutual blind ambition prevents them from seeing the rising light of Rákóczi’s coming rebellion.
The Black City
Lilian, daughter of an English millionaire threatens her father that she will marry the first shady character turning up around her and will sing in bars just because her father wants her to marry someone whom she does not love.
Forbidden Marriage
In 1585 the Turks and Vallons are looting the Látrány region.
The Aga's Testament
A TV movie version of István Örkény's short novel. The fate of Sister Glória, or Ilona Tarr, who has lived in a convent since her childhood, in the historical situation after 1948, when the nuns' orders were dissolved in our country. The film presents the reality of this extraordinary fate with lyrical beauty. At the age of 26, Gloria is taken out of the closed and safe world of the convent - both spiritual and everyday - and into a changing reality with shifting values. In the course of conflicts, while maintaining her individuality and integrity, she finally finds her place among everyday people.
Glória
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Csupajóvár
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A zebegényiek
The romantic story takes place in the time of Napoleon in Hungary, near Fertő-lake. Count Vavel hides here the French heiress from the revolution and Napoleon.
The Nameless Castle
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A Strange Marriage Part 1
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A Strange Marriage Part 2
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.
Othello in the Province
The adventurous history film conjures up the way of life in the castles on the country border in the late 16th century. Dani is only six years old when agha Akibar and his troop kill his father and force his mother to go with them. He engraves the face of the Turk into a spearhead and swears that he will take revenge.
The Turkish Spear
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Tizenötezer pengő jutalom
"Good evening... I'd like to report a murder... Where do I live? In the basement... but I'm not there now... I'm on the top floor, in the boss's room... Ah, I don't know who the body is... You like to know, I'm the cleaning lady... How can I check if he's just taking a nap? Maybe, but he's got a dagger sticking out of his back the size of half my arm... So I lock all the doors... don't touch anything... keep my mouth shut and don't tell anyone until you arrive..." - Mrs. Piper, the cleaning lady, begins the eerily cheerful, twisty story with her broken sentences, but at the end we are left with no answer as to why Mrs. Pipper talks so much.