
Szilveszter Siklósi
Directing
Biography
Szilveszter Siklósi (Budapest, August 7, 1944) is a Béla Balázs Award-winning (2002) film director, screenwriter, and university professor. He teaches media studies at József Attila University. He is also a lecturer at the Budapest College of Communication.
Known For

What is the connection between the bloody gang war that once raged over control of the Chicago fish market, the decades of terror perpetrated by the Chinese, Russian, and Italian mafias, the secret operations of the CIA and the KGB, the Cuban revolution, and the Kennedy assassination? And who is the 100-year-old monk who is revered as a saint in a Nepalese monastery and in whose body the presence of a strange crystal can be detected? Szilveszter Siklósi's thrilling "documentary" provides striking and convincing answers to questions that have preoccupied the world's public for nearly a generation.
Mao, the Real Man

The story shows Emma's and Böbe's fight for survival, for keeping their position in society which they achieved with hard work in the previous regime. They don't want to lose their place and become village girls again.
Sweet Emma, Dear Böbe

The film is made up of two independent episodes, which only have the basic setting in common. The little schoolteacher in Free Saturday, when she wakes up in a hotel room with 100 marks in her handbag, invents the "quickest way" to get to her flat. The newlyweds in The Council Fairy Tale find the "surest way" to an apartment by moving into the council building. There is no doubt then, what is the common default position, the impossibility of getting an apartment...
Moral Stories About Sex
The Váci Street tram was discontinued with the completion of the Deák Square - Lehel Square section of the North-South Metro in December 1981. The film is a nostalgic sequence of images about the tram in Angyalföld.