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Reconstructions of unrealized Hungarian films in cooperation with the greatest Hungarian film directors.
Hungarian documentary mini-series.
In this Hungarian comedy post communist materialism is satirized. Someone in Hungary has won a large screen TV set. As they live in the country, it must be delivered from Budapest upon the back of an abandoned Russian military truck. The TV is turned on so that all the truck passes will see its perfect picture and hear its messages.
Via the New York Times: "...the film has the free form of the agitprop movies made by Jean-Luc Godard in the late 1960's and early 1970's. At the center of it is the small fictional tale of Raffael, who stands for everything rotten in the newly liberalized Hungarian society. He is the owner of an amazingly profitable video shop in Budapast and, it seems, a speculator in currencies."
Gyöngyike is misinformed by her mother on issues like gender roles, sexuality and morals in relationships, as she takes good care of her daughter, and wants to cast off troubles when leaving this world behind.
In the fields of Cserefa the pig of a miner digs up red earth. Szántó discovers, that the hill hides good quality bauxite, suitable for open cast mining. First he is laughed at, later silenced, because opening of a mine would hurt the interests of the "water lobby" and the tourist industry.
14 year old Orsi Szentesi gets into art school. Her white-collar parents rarely see her. Orsi and her ten year old brother visit a wealthy countryside family during the summer break. She uses her art to keep a distance from everyone else, painting landscapes even as she's falling in love for the first time.
The two main locations of the film are Venice and New York - it is these two settings in which the protagonist, an astrologist, is slowly dying. He is a victim of the Chernobyl catastrophe.
The final years of Sándor Márai's voluntary exile in San Diego, which led to his suicide in 1989. Based on his own diary.
Documentary discussion with actress Kathleen Gáti as she recalls the eight months she spent tending to her mother dying of cancer.
The film is a documentary-feature film based on real stories and made with amateur actors. The district pioneer secretary is assigned to find a pioneer who can play a musical instrument, has a working-class background, and studies well at school and appoint him for a one-month-long premium holiday in Britain. He finds a guitarist, Balogh Tibi, in a village school.