Set in 1946, this movie deals with the planning and execution of the January, 1942 Novi Sad massacre of 4,000 Yugoslavian Serbs and Jews by Hungarian army units. It was undertaken as a reprisal for a partisan ambush (in which 17 soldiers were gunned down). And it is mainly explored through the reminiscences of four participants–Major Buky, Lieutenant Tarpataki, Ensign Pozdor, and Corporal Szabonow–cell-mates awaiting trial. Ultimately, however, what you get is an extended debate over issues of individual responsibility.

3.54GB | 1h 36m | 920×1080 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/8B79CF3A17FBD68/Hideg.napok.1966.1080p.WEB-DL.h264.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/73A3DCBD0A1D359/Hideg.napok.1966.1080p.WEB-DL.h264.mkv.en.srt

Language(s):Hungarian
Subtitles:English

The post András Kovács – Hideg napok AKA Cold days (1966) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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This lavishly spectacular film focuses on the character of Lorinc Parcen Nagy from the 1200-page Tibor Déry novel interwoven with numerous autobiographical elements.

Lorinc Parcen Nagy is the offspring of an upper middle class family, whose life is marked by two violent deaths: the suicide of his father and the slaughter of an innocent worker. He breaks with his family and his mother in disgust; she is of weak character, a person who abandoned her own husband. He is also unable to discover the right tone with his colleagues and his lover who is an illegal party worker.

2.33GB | 2 h 20 min | 1024×554 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/2858F8192650F50/The_Unfinished_Sentence_in_141_Minutes_(Fabri,_1975).mkv

Language:Hungarian
Subtitles:English ,Hungarian

The post Zoltán Fábri – 141 perc a befejezetlen mondatból AKA 141 Minutes from the Unfinished Sentence (1975) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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A thoroughly original, delightful comedy with serious undertones, this film is based upon the writings of a famous Hungarian journalist, Frigyes Karinthy. Karinthy, who, in his later years, suddenly became afflicted with a brain tumor, wrote a humorous novel about his thoughts during his illness. A Journey Around My Skull is not only a description of the illness and the great medical adventure of the writer, a strange, constantly unbalanced manner of life, but blends in several characteristics of Karinthy’s earlier works. The writer (played by Latinovits, who won the Best Actor Award at the recent San Sebastian Film Festival for his role here) is placed in pre-war Budapest, during the 1930s, and, while seated in his favorite cafe one day, he hears the roaring of trains. The recurrence of this sound is soon diagnosed as a brain tumor. He then travels to Stockholm for an operation and, while under local anaesthesia, the imaginative qualities of his mind, evocations of Karinthy’s flights of humorous fancy, take over the narrative. Everything is enlivened by rich, baroque escapades in which Karinthy’s personality breaks into several characters, including a sarcastic, bewigged aristocrat (called the Marquis), who comments upon the writer’s shortcomings. There are Felliniesque circus scenes, a phantasmagoric set with music hall interludes, a toy airplane ride, amusing flashbacks to childhood, allusions to Mussolini and Hitler—all the grab-bag flourishes of an artistic reverie, an imagination fluctuating between ecstasies and the intimation of doom. The excitements in A Journey Around My Skull are worth experiencing—it is experimental cinema at its best, a clever amalgam of wit and philosophical sardonicism that keeps an artist’s brain flourishing.

A.Journey.Around.My.Skull.1970.1080p.FMIO.WEB-DL.AAC.2.0.H264-WiTCHCRAFT.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 17 min
Size: 	2.62 GiB
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Codec: 	h264
Resolution: 	1920x1080 
Aspect ratio:  	16:9
Frame rate: 	25.000 fps
Bit rate: 	4 699 kb/s
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#1:  	Hungarian 2.0ch AAC LC @ 128 kb/s (Hungarian / AAC / 2.0 / 48 kHz / 128 kbps)

https://nitro.download/view/2818429B778CB28/A.Journey.Around.My.Skull.1970.1080p.FMIO.WEB-DL.AAC.2.0.H264-WiTCHCRAFT.mkv

Language(s):Hungarian
Subtitles:English, Hungarian (SDH)

The post György Révész – Utazás a koponyám körül AKA Trip Around My Cranium (1970) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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Adapted from the short stories of Gyula Krúdy, a beloved Proustian author of the Magyars, Szindbád is an autumnal, reflective, and poetic film set during fin de siècle Hungary, and centers on a dying libertine’s thoughts and memories. Although named after the character in One Thousand and One Nights, Szindbad is more of a wilting Casanova. A womanizer and a gourmand, he both regrets and revels in his past pursuits of the flesh and stomach. Counter to the long shot, long take aesthetic that’s the default mode for European art cinema then and now, Huszárik—a graphic artist and painter as well—opts for montage editing. Haptic inserts, rich in sensuality and eroticism, of water droplets, globules of food oil, and blooming flowers, are counterpoised with the film’s melancholic tone channeled through Szindbád. A life lived purely for pleasure never seemed so gloomily romantic.

1.98GB | 1 h 34 min | 1024×554 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/D1B4D77923BC788/Szindbad.mkv

Language:Hungarian
Subtitles:English, Greek

The post Zoltán Huszárik – Szindbád AKA Sinbad (1971) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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Miklós Jancsó’s Silence and Cry is 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 counter-revolution. Admiral Horthy, leader of the nationalist far right movement, becomes the self-proclaimed regent of Hungary, and assumes power as the legal Head of State. Soldiers of the short-lived Hungarian Red Army are now on the run from relentless secret policemen and patrol units of the nationalist Royal Gendarme. If caught, ex-Red Army soldiers are executed without mercy or proper trial. István Cserzi, a former soldier of the Red Army has fled to the Great Hungarian Plains and has taken refuge on a farm, which is run by two sympathetic women. Due to the generosity of these women and a former childhood pal, who is now a commandant of the local Royal Gendarme outfit, István is safely hidden from the ever-prying eyes of the secret policemen, who relentlessly roam the countryside searching for ex-Red Army men and their sympathisers. However, upon discovering that the women are secretly poisoning the mother-in-law and the husband, the legal owners of the farm, István must make the most difficult decision of his life. As a personal war is waging within his own consciousness over morality and self-preservation, István must decide whether to remain silent about the women’s devious secret and preserve his own life, or to report their heinous crime to the Royal Gendarme, which would also mean certain death for him.

Silence.and.Cry.1967.576p.Repack.Bluray.AAC.x264-LAA.mkv

General
Container:	Matroska
Runtime:	1h 16mn
Size:	3.18 GiB
DXVA:	Compatible
Minimum settings:	Met
Video
Codec:	x264
Resolution:	1024x436
Aspect ratio:	2.35:1
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Hungarian 2.0ch AAC LC @ 219 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/8AFE0ECEF5FB501/Silence.and.Cry.1967.576p.Repack.Bluray.AAC.x264-LAA.mkv

Language(s):Hungarian
Subtitles:English

The post Miklós Jancsó – Csend és kiáltás AKA Silence and Cry (1968) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Set in a detention camp in Hungary 1869, at a time of guerrilla campaigns against the ruling Austrians, Jancsó deliberately avoids conventional heroics to focus on the persecution and dehumanization manifest in a time of conflict. Filmed in Hungary’s desolate and burning landscape, Jancsó uses his formidable technique to create a remarkable and terrifying picture of war and the abuse of power that still speaks to audiences today.

2.11GB | 1h 30m | 1024×442 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/2BE2737789F8A7C/The.Round-Up.1966.WEBRIP.576p.x264.AC3.mkv

Language(s):Hungarian
Subtitles:English

The post Miklós Jancsó – Szegénylegények AKA The Round-Up (1966) first appeared on Cinema of the World.