Requiem for a Revolutionary

Requiem for a Revolutionary

The royal summary court sentences Sallai Imre and Fürst Sándor to death on charges of attempting to uproot the state and the social order. The film...

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Lost Illusions

Lost Illusions

Via the New York Times: "The Hungarian director Gyula Gazdag has transposed the middle section of Balzac's "Lost Illusions" from Paris in the...

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A Poet from the Lower East Side

A Poet from the Lower East Side

Filmmaker Gyula Gazdag's fascinating documentary follows Hungarian poet, playwright and activist István Eörsi on a trip to the streets of New York...

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Swap

Swap

This grotesque, micro-realistic film is set in a small village at the end of the seventies. A TV-staff comes to the Petőfi Memorial House. They...

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A három jószívű rabló

A három jószívű rabló

A Hungarian Fairy Tale

A Hungarian Fairy Tale

Shot in B&W, Gyula Gazdag's film follows the surreal and often comic quests of young Andris, an orphan searching for a father who doesn't exist...

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Bastion Promenade Seventy Four

Bastion Promenade Seventy Four

Mr. Dezső and Rezső are selecting the heroes for their new operetta. They represent different tastes and styles, and keep arguing about the casting...

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Az ítélet

Az ítélet

The Whistling Cobblestone

The Whistling Cobblestone

The week-days of a youth-camp, playing democracy, are depicted in this documentarist satire. Due to faulty organisation, the Budapest high-school...

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Package Tour

Package Tour

A documentary which follows a coach party of former inmates on a trip to Auschwitz.

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Stand off

Stand off

In a border town two sons of the local commander using stolen arms take hostages of eighteen girls in a dormitory, because they want to go West by...

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Long Distance Runner

Long Distance Runner

American Road

American Road

This documentary explores the artistic, musical and literary resonances of the mystique of the road - and especially of going off the beaten track...

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The banquet

The banquet

Right after the Red Army in 1944 was deliberating a little village, Veszto in eastern Hungary, the locals formed their "government", excommunicated...

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The Resolution

The Resolution

Shot in 1972, this remarkable documentary was released ten years later and had its first Western film festival screenings last year. "Gyula Gazdag...

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Selection

Selection

SELECTION documents a KISZ (Hungarian Young Communist League) chapter at an oil refinery that is interested in hiring a musical act as...

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Prelude

Prelude