Gábor Altorjay
Acting
Known For

A character study of a family on vacation. The emotional abyss and problems are behind the seemingly nice facade of an intact family as they experience guilt, love, and jealousy.
Summer '04

A kaleidoscopic panorama of the world. A visual anthology of twelve short stories by twelve innovative directors from all over the world.
City Life

Futuristic view of life in Pankow, East Berlin. The GDR has turned into a madhouse with serious economic problems.
Pankow ’95

A Soviet sailor travels to the West for the first time. In Hamburg, he hopes to find his missing brother. But German secret service agents, inquisitive reporters and even his own countrymen are hot on his heels.
Tscherwonez

The two main locations of the film are Venice and New York - it is these two settings in which the protagonist, an astrologist, is slowly dying. He is a victim of the Chernobyl catastrophe.
Reflections

Animation feature ostensibly about the adventures and romance of two Interpol agents, called upon to investigate a sensational art theft. At the same time, the film pokes fun at the contemporary art world - in particular Joseph Beuys's statement that 'everybody is an artist'.
Katharina & Witt, Fiction & Reality

Conny and Sigi lives in a villa in Berlin's Westend. Cony has fear of the future and want to do something meaningful. She suggests they adopt a poor Roma child from Eastern Europe.
Westend
Fred, Lilian and their young daughter Luzi are enjoying a wonderful vacation in Argentina. During their stay at the “Punta Grande”, the smallest hotel in the world, each of them experiences their own individual catharsis.
Punta Grande
From a girl's perspective, the film shows how men and women coped with modern city life at the end of the 1980s. The women seem to be in charge; at any rate, they are allowed to do everything that only men were allowed to do in the past: they fight, they give orders, they play dangerous games. The men, on the other hand, spend hours in the bathroom, take the children to kindergarten, and otherwise keep a low profile.
Poleshift
The film centers on Ben Szegedy, a successful American dentist who is becoming increasingly hard of hearing. At an international conference, he is unable to answer questions from interested audience members after his presentation. He cannot understand them. Ben's life in limbo begins.