Passion 1998
A woman and her lover plot to kill her older husband.
A woman and her lover plot to kill her older husband.
Using verite conventions, a young couple with a baby and a child are worn away by the monotony of their lives.
A tale about an independent-minded university professor who leaves her family to travel across the countryside to visit a friend.
1982, Budapest. Two 18-year-old Hungarian boys think Hungary is boring so they decide to travel to Poland and have a real adventure. Their plan to escape to Sweden fails and they find themselves in a Polish prison.
The documentary-television director duo Jolán Árvai and László Sántha, while making an entertaining documentary-report montage about the rock life of the period between 1957 and 1973, were mainly curious about how and why the movement's sad metamorphosis began. What intention and what mechanism of action resulted in the withering away and slow death of progressive trends; the most vital ones becoming manipulable and commercialized? The filmmakers do not tell the answer, and they do not tell anyone. They leave it up to the viewer to decide whether they want to answer at all. Because if not, the seventy-five minutes of Rockfogyatkozás will still pass quickly. It carries within itself the possibility of a multi-part series offering an optional experience, with which several layers of viewers can be satisfied at the same time.
The devil arrives in Budapest because he has got wind that a hermit scientist has discovered the elixir of eternal life. Soon the lives of oh-so-some upstanding citizens living in the peace of the peaceful little people are in turmoil. Irén Psota, Zoltán Bezerédy and the unforgettable Buczella brothers.
Vilmos Gonda, a former bomb expert, wants revenge for the rape of his daughter Mari at a house party. Gonda even sheds human blood for this, but he has no idea that his daughter is also responsible for what happened, and she does not want to press charges. In fact, she feels it is more important to assert herself in this kind of friendship at any cost...
A young man lives his life daydreaming about Dostoevsky's White Nights and the Visconti film.