Hungarian

  • Béla Tarr – Hotel Magnezit (1978)

    1971-1980Béla TarrDocumentaryHungaryShort Film

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    The exam movie of Béla Tarr.

    Documentaristic subject picture about a worker’s hostel. An old worker is suspected with stealing a motor, he’s been fired from the factory and he has to leave the hostel. First he offends and attacks all of his roommates, then he starts to cry and tells that he was a pilot in WWII and he’s left his soul there. An interesting portrait of human reactions and changing emotions.Read More »

  • Péter Gárdos – Szamárköhögés AKA Whooping Cough (1987)

    1981-1990ComedyDramaHungaryPéter Gárdos

    By the eighties, as the communist regime was slowly crumbling, making films about the 1956 revolution was no longer a taboo.

    In Whooping Cough, we see how the failed revolution unfolds through the eyes of a middle-class family and especially their two young children.

    By seeing the children experience the revolution as they come of age, we see the early socialist Hungarian society becoming increasingly disillusioned and coming to grips with its new reality.

    — Ábel Bede (kafkadesk.org)Read More »

  • Gyula Nemes – Papagáj AKA Parrot (1999)

    1991-2000DramaGyula NemesHungaryShort Film

    Surrealist short feature about common tricks of uncle Pepin and the young Bohumil Hrabal. The harum-scarum young man pays his looney uncle a visit and his life changes at once. We can find out, where the snowmen lives in summer, what Franz Joe’s favorite food was, how to sell one half of a pair of shoes and fly in a cage.Read More »

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