Movies: János Koltai

  • 1966
    The Round-Up

    The Round-Up (1966)

    The Round-Up

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    After the failure of the Kossuth's revolution of 1848, people suspected of supporting the revolution are sent to prison camps. Years later, partisans led by outlaw Sándor Rózsa still run rampant. Although the authorities do not know the identities of...

    The Round-Up
  • 1965
    My Way Home

    My Way Home (1965)

    My Way Home

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    During WWII, a young Hungarian captured by the Soviets is left in the custody of a young Soviet soldier to assist him on a dairy farm....

    My Way Home
  • 1966
    A Hungarian Nabob 2: Karpathy Zoltan

    A Hungarian Nabob 2: Karpathy Zoltan (1966)

    A Hungarian Nabob 2: Karpathy Zoltan

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    On the novel by Mór Jókai. The first half of the XVIII century. Several decades of life of a noble family Karpati....

    A Hungarian Nabob 2: Karpathy Zoltan
  • 1967
    Ten Thousand Days

    Ten Thousand Days (1967)

    Ten Thousand Days

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    The changing and turbulent history of Hungary is seen through the eyes of three men over a 30-year period in this somber drama. The three recall the highlights of their lives in flashbacks as they reminisce in the mid 1960s. The venerable trio begin ...

    Ten Thousand Days
  • 1966
    Cold Days

    Cold Days (1966)

    Cold Days

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    Andras Kovacs' film, considered one of the most important Hungarian films of the 1960s, centers around four men who await trial for their involvement in the massacre of several thousand Jewish and Serbian people of Novi Sad in 1942. Each denies any r...

    Cold Days
  • 1974
    The Myth-Makers

    The Myth-Makers (1974)

    The Myth-Makers

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    Eighteen years after the failure of the revolution and freedom fighting 1848-49, the politicians of Hungary preparing for a compromise with Austria try to make use of the symbol of the revolution, the figure of the poet Petőfi Sándor, to their own ad...

    The Myth-Makers
  • 1968
    Silence and Cry

    Silence and Cry (1968)

    Silence and Cry

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    Set during a turbulent era of disquiet, fear, persecution and terror, which permeates every corner of post-WWI Hungarian society. In 1919, after just a few months of communist rule the Hungarian Republic of Councils falls victim to a nationalist coun...

    Silence and Cry
  • 1963
    Cantata

    Cantata (1963)

    Cantata

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    A young doctor undergoes a spiritual crisis when he returns to his rural home....

    Cantata
  • 1974
    Blindfold

    Blindfold (1974)

    Blindfold

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    The scene is Ukraine. In 1943, after the Hungarian' defeat at the river Don, soldier Balogh decides to visit his family....

    Blindfold
  • 1965
    No Love, Please

    No Love, Please (1965)

    No Love, Please

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    No Love, Please
  • 1967
    Late Season

    Late Season (1967)

    Late Season

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    Kerekes (Antal Pager) believes he is wanted by the police when his friends play a practical joke in this unusual comedy drama. He returns to his hometown where he was accused of turning a Jewish druggist and the druggist's wife over to the Nazis. Wit...

    Late Season
  • 1968
    Baptism

    Baptism (1968)

    Baptism

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    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 political upheaval experienced by his family and friends....

    Baptism
  • 1972
    Dead Landscape

    Dead Landscape (1972)

    Dead Landscape

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    This Hungarian film chronicles the slow deterioration in the life of Juli, a farmer's wife. As the countryside grows ever more deserted because people are moving to towns or large collective farms, she spends more and more time alone. Despite her bes...

    Dead Landscape
  • 1966
    The Sack

    The Sack (1966)

    The Sack

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    For the first time after 11 years, Simon, a young historian visits the village of his childhood at Balaton and Aunt Lina, his foster-mother. He gets upset by what he experiences there: the old woman's troublesome and vexing everydays, her quiet sadne...

    The Sack
  • 1963
    Grotesque

    Grotesque (1963)

    Grotesque

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

    Grotesque
  • 1963
    New Gilgames

    New Gilgames (1963)

    New Gilgames

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    The story recalling the spirit of Gilgamesh, the Sumerian king quarrelling with his approaching death, takes place in a cancer hospital in Budapest. Dávid, the young ethnography scientist resigned to his lot and is indifferent to his approaching deat...

    New Gilgames
  • 1962
    The Lost Paradise

    The Lost Paradise (1962)

    The Lost Paradise

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    Sebők Zoltán, the brain surgeon, performed a secret abortion on his lover and the woman died. The man waiting for the autopsy (and his arrest) escapes to his father's villa at Lake Balaton....

    The Lost Paradise
  • 1970
    Judgement

    Judgement (1970)

    Judgement

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    The film is a historic parable about the topicality of revolution. 1514. The peasants' uprising is over, Dózsa has been arrested. Werbőczy tries to get the imprisoned peasant leader deny the revolution and offers him the lives of his people in exchan...

    Judgement
  • 1967
    A múmia közbeszól

    A múmia közbeszól (1967)

    A múmia közbeszól

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    A múmia közbeszól
  • 1969
    On Home Grounds

    On Home Grounds (1969)

    On Home Grounds

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    This ironic comedy is set in the god-forsaken Kiskúnbékás, at the end of the fifties. There are no jobs, the town's "golden team", who once were third class national soccer players have scattered...

    On Home Grounds