Current

Current

A group of students cope with the disappearance of their friend.

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Grotesque

Grotesque

Huszárik's graduation film was another short entitled Groteszk (Grotesque) in 1963 about a strange train voyage of an artist carrying his own picture.

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Orpheus and Eurydice

Orpheus and Eurydice

The opera-film, as opposed to Gluck's Vienna version, is a recollection of the ancient tragic Greek myth. Orpheus, who is able to defeat Hades with...

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The Platelayer

The Platelayer

A group of plate-layers are packing the stone-bed under the rail with their pickaxes. They swing their picks in a coordinated, rhythmic way...

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The Falcons

The Falcons

A young man with an interest in ornithology arrives to study the work of falcons and their human trainers. The head falconer is a cold and...

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Dead Landscape

Dead Landscape

This Hungarian film chronicles the slow deterioration in the life of Juli, a farmer's wife. As the countryside grows ever more deserted because...

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Alone

Alone

Sándor Sára's meditation on loneliness and the human condition.

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Potteries

Potteries

Andras (Zygmunt Malanowicz), an older man employed as a furniture designer, gets a life-jarring shock when he returns from a trip and finds that...

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Tisza: Autumn Sketches

Tisza: Autumn Sketches

The first signs of autumn are seen in a landscape along a river. Some villagers are stacking a bed of stone blocks on the river-bank to avoid more...

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Baptism

Baptism

A 40-year-old sculptor returns home to witness the baptism of his young nephew. His return prompts a series of flashbacks to his youth and the...

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Legato

Legato

The university student couple, Andris and Mari, cross Nemesbérc during their summer vacation, to hasten the laying of a memorial stone to the...

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Gypsies

Gypsies

This film shows the gipsies' life in Hungary, the prejudices they are faced with when adapting themselves to society and the gipsies' ancient...

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Green Years

Green Years

A country boy comes to Budapest to study and tries desperately to retain his integrity amid the corruption of the capital.

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Védjük meg üzemeinket

Védjük meg üzemeinket

Peer Gynt

Peer Gynt

Adapted for Hungarian TV.

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Roots

Roots

Documentary screenplay, based on letters and writings of the composer Béla Bartók. Musical works composed throughout his life are placed in context...

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Etude

Etude

Étude is István Gaál's film exam at The Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia (Experimental film centre or Italian National film school).

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Return

Return

Man and his environment.

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Béla Bartók: The Music of the Night

Béla Bartók: The Music of the Night

Hungarian filmmaker István Gaál was one of the key directors in Hungarian New Wave cinema. Originally Gaál studied to be an eclectrotechnician like...

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