Sándor Simó
Directing
Biography
Sándor Simó was a prominent Hungarian film director, screenwriter, and producer. He graduated from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics in 1957 with a degree in chemical engineering and later pursued film directing at the Academy of Drama and Film in Budapest, graduating in 1964. Simó's directorial works include Those Who Wear Glasses (1969), which won the Golden Leopard at the Locarno International Film Festival, and My Father's Happy Years (1977), entered into the 28th Berlin International Film Festival.
Known For

The fate of a Hungarian Jewish family throughout the 20th century.
Sunshine

A Bors egy 1968-ban készült fekete-fehér, 15 részes magyar kalandfilmsorozat.
Bors

The film depicts the period between 1945-60 through the life of a communist couple. Barna Judit, just released from a concentration camp and Horváth László, with an illegal past are brought together by the communist movement. They study and make plans together in the hope of a future that will make sense. The marriage they just entered, however, gets ruined soon by the events of history.
Dialogue

Based on a true story, this film is a dramatization of the events that led to the destruction of one of the most famous trains in history, the Orient Express.
The Train Killer

The adventures of a young man as he moves from the Latin-American revolutions in the sixties and seventies, through Hungary in the eighties, to the Croatian war in 1991.
Chico

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.
My Father's Happy Years

A documentary chronicling the adolescent years of Elie Wiesel and the history of his sufferings. Eliezer was fifteen when Fascism brutally altered his life forever. Fifty years later, he returns to Sighetu Marmatiei, the town where he was born, to walk the painful road of remembrance - but is it possible to speak of the unspeakable? Or does Auschwitz lie beyond the capacity of any human language - the place where words and stories run out?
Elie Wiesel Goes Home

1979. Gábor H. works in a law enforcement institution. He robs a bank branch, gets into jail. 1989. Gábor H. and the similarly unemployed Sanyi want to get money by robbing.
Gangster Film

András and Juli meet at a desperate moment in their lives, when they have both made a difficult decision, the consequences of which they cannot bear alone. András, a talented but heavily addicted programmer, decides to end his career, while Juli, a budding actress, has left her husband and temporarily her daughter to rethink her life. The two move in together and lock themselves in Andrew's apartment, where he enters his umpteenth detox, while Juli tries to help him with patience and love. In the weeks that follow, they explore the deepest depths of human existence, a hell of fear and humiliation, of physical and mental suffering. The hope of healing can mean new possibilities in the lives of these two men.
Cloud Above the River Ganges

The young Valkó wants to plan a block of apartments that will still be modern fifty years from now. His ambitious plans are continuously rejected by his manipulative and careless superiors. So instead of the modern block of flats he only plans a bachelor apartment.
Those Who Wear Glasses

A girl is on the skids because of love. A short tempered and passionate young man falls in love with the girl. His emotions are so powerful that he is prepared to surrender his whole personality. The boy has a good friend, who is not sure whether their bond is friendly or homosexual. Before the girl arrived, the friendship was close, but now she has thrown a spanner in the works. How do they react to the new situation?
Sticky Matters

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Franciska vasárnapjai

September 1938. Tenants of a Budapest block of flats live their everyday lives, conducted by tradition. World politics does not divide them. Their major experience is the private life of the actress in the house.
Farewell To You

A love story between a young, policeman and a Chinese immigrant girl, who speak no common language.
Close to Love
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Alfonzo mondja... Szavalj a Gizi néninek...

A drugsploitation film by the Hungarian director András Dér
The Shadow Century

The film describes the general situation and conditions of the middle-aged intellectuals.