Muggy heat, small-town bleakness, unspoken social problems, hierarchy fights. This is Tuzko town, somewhere in Hungary, nowadays. Here comes Misi who inherits his grandfather's house and his property. Misi is a disillusioned, frustrated, constantly refugee young man. He can't find his role in his...
When a young, ambitious market researcher finds out her boss is involved in the leaking of a scandalous Prime Minister speech, she decides to investigate the case to gain a position among the big-shots. Based on actual events.
Dorka’s life as the little heroine of the story takes an unexpected turn when her widowed father announces that she is getting married. The vivid little girl uses every means to protect her father from the dangers of love, and during her adventures she also learns the secrets of friendship and...
István Sinka, known in the farm world of the Great Plains only as Black Burdock, is a decent, honest fellow. He stands out among his peers with his education and literacy. He and his love, Piroska, are happily planning their lives when an unexpected tragedy occurs.
The reformed priest of Gát, Pap Énók, gets married. He is engaged to the worthy Miss Ica Zádor from Malomsk and Zádor. At the Easter 'priestess election ball', Énók could have chosen a wife from among thirty-five Gáti girls, but he asked the thirty-sixth, Ica, a young lady from Pest. Enoch,...
Zsigmond Móricz wrote his novel Butterfly in just a few days in 1924. Móricz tells the story of a mighty love that triumphs over adversity and is all-powerful in the language of ordinary people. The love of Zsuzsika and Jóska is presented through the "lightning and veil-soft" emotions of the...
Anna, a celebrated Transylvanian actress starring at Hungary’s National Theatre in the mid-1960s, falls in love with an Olympic champion she meets at a reception, much to the regime’s displeasure, which has other plans for the multilingual star as an official hostess for visiting dignitaries....
An ambitious psychiatrist is researching a strange and unique mental state: hypermnesia, first of all because he would like to help his amnesic father. When he finds a patient with hypermnesia, he decides to take him out of the mental hospital at his own risk and study him. An unusual relationship...
Marika is a young and beautiful girl, her family runs a fabric shop called White Peacock. Their life turns upside down when the train and the promise of the modern world arrives in their little hometown. However, not only the train arrives in the girl's life, but also two men: the rational and...
The setting is a cattle ranch where two men are competing for the love of a third man's wife - even though one of them doesn't know there's a competition. Two shots are fired, but the real conflict takes place elsewhere.
A disowned son of a Greek aristocrat arrives in Hungary in 1949 over his family’s communist beliefs and starts work in the Lágymányos tobacco factory, where he falls for Gizi Weiss and fathers their first child in 1953. Fifty years later, the now-destitute “Ratkó baby” is whisked from the...
The film weaves together three stories from Hortobágy. It takes a sacred approach to the honesty, fallibility, stubbornness and deep emotions of the ancient people of Hortobágy. The director was inspired by Zsigmond Móricz's short story "Komor Ló" and the writer's realistic yet mystical vision...
