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János Herskó

János Herskó

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Biography

János Herskó (9 April 1926 – 12 October 2011) was a Hungarian film director and actor. He appeared in 15 films between 1963 and 2006. He also directed nine films between 1948 and 1990. In 1963, he was a member of the jury at the 3rd Moscow International Film Festival.

Known For

Europa
7.4

Just after World War II, an American takes a railway job in Germany, but finds his position politically sensitive with various people trying to use him.

Europa

1991
The Magic Flute
7.2

The Queen of the Night enlists a handsome prince named Tamino to rescue her beautiful kidnapped daughter, Princess Pamina, in this screen adaptation of the beloved Mozart opera. Aided by the lovelorn bird hunter Papageno and a magical flute that holds the power to change the hearts of men, young Tamino embarks on a quest for true love, leading to the evil Sarastro's temple where Pamina is held captive.

The Magic Flute

1975
The Inside Man
3.9

In 1981, after the successful test of a submarine tracker device developed by the Swedish scientist Paul Mandell and sponsored by the US government through his representative Miller, his industry is totally burned and the laser device is stolen. Stig Larsson from the Swedish Secret Agency suspects of an inside job and brings the Swedish Marine Thomas Kallin to investigate Paul undercover as his driver. The naive Kallin is double-crossed but continues his investigation while Larsson finds the truth about the heist.

The Inside Man

1984
Code Name Coq Rouge
6.4

His name is Carl Hamilton from a Swedish noble family - trained by the CIA and a army SEAL. When a group of terrorists based in Sweden threatens to initiate their diabolic plans - the Coq Rouge Carl Hamilton is activated.

Code Name Coq Rouge

1989
Bors
8.0

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

Bors

1968
Dialogue
7.0

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

1963
I Am Maria
5.0

A story about a strange friendship between 11-year-old Maria and an older man Jon.

I Am Maria

1979
The Crown Witness
7.0

Thomas, a scientist, lives in a childless marriage. When his wife travels to Copenhagen he begins an affair with a girl of 19. The girl and large amounts of drugs disappears from Thomas laboratory.

The Crown Witness

1989
Father
6.7

When young Tako's father dies in Hungary in 1945, Tako is left with scant memories of him. Nurtured by his mother, the boy fantasizes about the man his father was, imagining him a hero. Grown into a man himself, Tako falls for a Jewish refugee, Anni. Burdened by her own heritage as a Jew, Anni sparks in Tako a desire to find out what his father was really like, and he delves into the role his father played in World War II.

Father

1966
Hello, Vera
5.8

The family travels to Zebegény for their holiday, and the following day the seventeen-year-old Vera also leaves for Lake Balaton to pick peaches in a voluntary camp there. Her boyfriend, Gyuri, goes to a film shooting. Gyuri would like to make the best of the day in the absence of parents, but Vera refuses him. She becomes jealous at once, however, when she discovers Gyuri's previous girlfriend in the shooting team.

Hello, Vera

1967
Negative history of Hungarian cinema
N/A

Reconstructions of unrealized Hungarian films in cooperation with the greatest Hungarian film directors.

Negative history of Hungarian cinema

2010
No image
6.0

A Swedish road movie about two mismatched women. The road leads to strange meetings and bizarre events and episodes.

Second Dance

1983
Under the City
10.0

1952. The workers who have performed the reconstruction of the bridges are now needed at the construction works of the underground railway. During admission they are diluted with elements of doubtful fame and many of them are in a bad mood for the wages, too.

Under the City

1953
Iron Flower
6.6

During the worldwide Depression of the 1930s, a young shopgirl is in love with a man of her own financial class, but succumbs to the seductive machinations of her wealthy boss.

Iron Flower

1958
N.N. the Angel of Death
8.5

The two main characters of this ironic account of the general condition of intellectuals are the charming psychologist, Korin György, and the unexpected. Korin starts a television series of people in their 40s. In the afternoon just after the first section, however, he is reported to be dead as a result of a rather strange accident. Everything turns upside down.

N.N. the Angel of Death

1970
No image
5.0

No description available.

Kiss Vakond

1994
Orb
7.0

In this absurd comedy two television reporters set out to find the famous gypsy Csulano.

Orb

1998
A Mad Night
6.7

The grotesque comedy with crime elements takes place in a grocery store.

A Mad Night

1970
A Houseful of Bliss
7.5

A comedy about the dwellers of a newly handed-over building. The sullen doctor Birkás is concerned that his wife also has a job so there is nobody to keep the apartment tidy. What is more, it happens that the doctor must cook the dumplings stuffed with plums himself. The lady hairdresser, Albert, is rather jealous of his wife. His jealousy is not entirely ungrounded, and Mancika runs away with a motorcyclist. The Korbusz family live a little crowded, because in addition to Öcsi, even an energetic grandmother lives with them. But the peacefully troublesome time spent together does not disturb the family's happiness.

A Houseful of Bliss

1960
Which of the Nine?
10.0

Istvan Szőts’s short, Christmas-themed film starring József Bihari and Andor Ajtay, based on Mór Jókai’s novel of the same title. The premier of the film was in the Venice Film Festival in 1957, where it received recognition.

Which of the Nine?

1957