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HUNGARIAN PUBLIC MEDIA
2015 Line up
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TABLE OF INDEX
Feature films
Meanwhile in Budapest 46
Heavenly Bird 46
Butterfly 47
Legend of Hortobágy 47
Last Rhapsody 48
Zsolnay – The Lover of the Soil 48
T.U.K. – Please Sir! 49
Sobri 49
TV Movies
Demimonde 4
The Curse of the Black Mummy 6
House of the Stone Monkeys 8
The Sketch Artist 10
Herofinders 11
The Ambassador to Bern 12
Freedom Flight 13
The Unbeatables 13
Abel in Wilderness 50
Abel in America 50
Bánk Bán 50
Torch 51
Sunflower 51
Sons of the Slave Man 51
Documentaries
The Lost World of Vargyas Gorge 22
Kunság – The Secret Life of the Puszta 24
Global Menu 26
Sharks in my Viewfinder 28
Vipera Life 29
Small Cams, Big Beasts 30
This Tree Is Big 31
The Pet Cup 32
Barça’s Untold Legends 33
Cinema Inferno 34
The Timehopper 35
Invisible Wildlife Photographer 36
Szigetköz 37
On the Spot 38
Babel 40
Budapest Underground 42
Budapest Wild 42
We Need a Garden, a Rich Garden 43
The Spymaster 43
Silent Invaders 44
History of Hungary 64
The Past Confessed 64
Healing Tardition 64
Endemica Hungarica 65
Tastes, Teas and Gardens 65
Wanderings in Africa 65
Footage from the Flea Market 66
Unusual Stories – Eduardo 66
Holodomor 66
Peasant Bible 67
Replay 67
Handbags and Their Ladies 67
Palaces in Hungary 68
Castles in Hungary 68
National Parks of Hungary 68
Lutheran Churches 69
The Knights of Margat 69
Little Hungary in Zala County 69
Children
animations
Busy&Body Silver Stream / Ubul Adventures of the Mézga Family Süsü / Frakk Vuk / Waterspider-Wonderspider Mr. Bleating / Curious Ele-Phany Microby / Pom-Pom Sergeant Pityke / No Problem Toby Vackor / The Great Angler Chuck and Luck / Hungarian Folk Tales 70
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TV Series
Low-cost airline 14
Two against Paris 16
Hacktion – Reloaded 52
Hacktion 53
Work Matters, 1-2 Seasons 54
Angel Gastro 56
The Curse 57
In the Line of Fire 57
Logbook 57
The Café 58
In Angel’s Skin 58
It’s Summer at Long Last 58
Abigail 59
An Old-Fashioned Story 59
Kántor 59
Bowler and Potato Nose 60
Captain Tenkes 60
Thorn Castle 60
Vivát Benyovszky 61
Black Town 61
The Nameless Castle 61
A Strange Marriage 62
And Yet the Earth Moves 62
The Widow and Her Daughter 62
Days of Széchenyi 63
The Sipsirica 63
Sándor Rózsa 63
short films
Letter to God 18
Call to the corpse 19
Wall 20
concert films
Ákos 45
Demimonde
88’
FÉLVILÁG2015
DOWNTON ABBEY meets BASIC INSTINCT
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Drama, Mystery, History
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In January 1914 a travelling basket drifted
ashore by the icy river Danube with a
strangled woman’s body. One of the most
high-profile courtisanes in town, Elza Mágnás
was strangled and her body was thrown into
the icy water of the Danube. “Demimonde”
chronicles the last four days of Elza, her
complex relationship with her housekeeper,
her patron and her lover, through the eyes of a
young and naïve maid. Based on a true story
about love, passion, sex, power and murder.
The plot revolves around three women: the
demimonde prostitute Elza Mágnás (played
by Patrícia Kovács), her bigot housekeeper
Rózsi (Dorka Gryllus) and their young and
naïve maid Kató (Laura Döbrösi). The bizarre
and passionate relationship between them
turns more and more complicated and
dangerous by the men surrounding Elza
(János Kulka and Péter Sándor) right till the
shocking endgame.
“Demimonde”, the new film of the makers
of the award-winning and festival success
hostage drama “The Ambassador to Bern”.
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Directed by Attila Szász
Written by Norbert Köbli
Director of Photography András Nagy
Producer: Tamás Lajos
Tamás Mink
Language Hungarian
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62’
2015
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Comedy NEW
SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE meets DESPERADO
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The Curse of the Black Mummy
a fekete múmia átka
“Remember, my son, those writers rip off somebody every night: either me or their
publisher. It is more frequently me. As all those picaresque novelists visit this café, you
can believe me if I say: I am a victim of more novels than all the fishy cadavers in the
Scotland Yard’s records.” – the Armenian who owns the Absinth Café
The first half of the 20th century is a golden age
of Hungarian literature. Schoolchildren’s books
are filled with works written by those giants of
literature who were churning out masterpieces
while sitting in once famous cafés. Our story
is not about them.
Our film commemorates the pulp fiction
writers so typical of the age. Those mostly
forgotten authors flooded the fans of easy
reading and fun stories with innumerable
cheap Westerns, pulp fiction about the French
Foreign Legion, and detective and romantic
adventure stories. The moneyless scribblers
often paid what they had consumed on that day
by giving the headwaiter a fresh chapter from
their serial novels.
Our hero, Plock is the uncrowned king of pulp
fiction. He was not older than 23 when he won
the Nobel Prize for Literature. Actually, he won
it from a famous Swedish author in a card
game called Macau. Plock is a real big shot.
He is the unofficial holder of the world speed
record of novel writing in coffee houses.
But Plock is in a big trouble now. Ha has
borrowed an amount of 1000 pengoes from
the Armenian owner of the Absinth Café,
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Directed by Isti Madarász
Written by Bálint Hegedüs
Producer Tamás Lajos
Tamás Mink
Language Hungarian
to privately publish his book of poems through
which he desires to reach the high Pantheon
of literature. But what a disappointment!
While his volume It Hurts Me receives very
bad criticism, readers are not open, either, to
Plock’s soul-tormenting poetry. If he cannot
repay the money to the Armenian before
6 p.m., he will not only lose his regular table in
the café but the wicked Armenian owner will
also tell Plock’s bride, Evelin that he had spent
the loan to buy a house, on his literary venture.
Georges, the wicked and rich owner of Pepita
Publishing House who has been in hopeless
love with the girl for long, would eventually get
a real chance to seduce Evelin.
The Armenian gives Plock a last chance: if
he helps the Armenian’s youngest son, a
talentless idiot called Gerzson to finish writing
his first novel until 6 p.m., he will not only
waive from reclaiming the debt but will buy
500 pieces of the book It Hurts Me.
Our film follows this impossible mission as
Plock and Gerzson write the crime story
The Curse of the Black Mummy. Rich not only
in literary excitements, our story revivifies the
most well-known genres of pulp fiction in the
coffee house that turns into a Western saloon
and an Arabian sheik’s tent, then the dreadful
scene of a ghost story.
This movie salutes Jenő Rejtő, the greatest
Hungarian pulp fiction author while taking
spectators behind the scenes of creative
work. This film presents you a crooked mirror
in which not only writers but everybody can
recognise themselves in one way or another.
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house of the stone monkeys
kőmajmok háza
80’
2014
NEW
Kornél has asthma. He only gets to watch
other boys playing football. He is soon joined
by a strange girl, who wants to know “who
put the stone on his chest”. Kornél tries to
shake her off at first, but she insists on telling
him that his asthma is obviously caused by
a dragon living in the same building. When
Kornél challenges her eccentric assertion,
she tells him that the stone monkeys on
the front gate protect the building from evil
spirits called peritons, whose sole aim is
to persecute the magicos living within. The
young girl soon spots a van that parks outside
the house every day but no one ever gets
out. The sign on the side of the van reads:
Mr. Shadow.
Izabella tells Kornél that the dragon living in
the house is none other than Mr. Dragomán,
whose name needs no explanation. Kornél
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Directed by Gergő Fonyó
Written by Istvan Tasnadi
Cast Erik Jarja, Virág Hajdú,
Bendeguz Fazakas,
Zétény Varga, Gabi Gubás
Producers Gábor Kálomista,
Dorottya Helmeczy
Language Hungarian
goes up to the third floor to spy on “the
dragon”, who turns out to be a harmless
old man and gives him a clacker that he
confiscated from Kornél’s father 30 years
before.
Mr. Dragomán’s flat catches fire in the middle
of the night, and the old boy is carted off to
hospital. The kids see that the ambulance
belongs to the Saint George Foundation. They
look this up on the internet and are shocked
to discover that Saint George slew a dragon
with his spear.
The young duo find their way to the hospital
that Izabella thinks is a periton venture. Mr.
Dragomán is hooked up to machines and
cannot talk, so Izabella interprets the old
dragon’s thoughts (she is actually a lizard,
so she can speak his secret language). She
claims that Mr. Dragomán says that it was
not him who put the stone on Kornél’s chest.
Then who was it? He does not want to say
but eventually admits that it was none other
than Kornél’s father.
Kornél hurries home and quizzes his
distraught mother about his father’s
whereabouts. His mother tells him that
she does not know where he is and neither
does she want to know because he is “not
a good man”. Kornél presses her until she
admits that his father sent him presents for
his last five birthdays, but she never passed
them on to him. The present intended for
his ninth birthday includes an old diary of a
“wanderer”. Kornél reads this and comes to
the conclusion that his father, who is also
a magical wanderer, was kidnapped by
peritons when he vanished five years ago.
Kornél walks over to the periton’s van (Mr.
Shadow), and tries to open the door but
the periton starts the engine and speeds
away. Kornél tracks the van down to an
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abandoned factory. He carries on looking
until he stumbles into a loft apartment decked
out with rosemary (the wanderers’ plant). He
then comes face to face with the periton, who
smiles and offers him a football. “I wanted
to give you your tenth birthday present in
person,” the man says. Kornél has an asthma
attack and passes out.
When he wakes again, he is in his own bed
at home. His mother is sitting by his bed with
the man he thought was a periton, but who he
now discovers is his father. It turns out that
his father became addicted to a prescribed
drug five years earlier, and broke into a
pharmacy. Instead of a prison sentence, he
was given the option of rehab. A court order
meant that he was unable to approach his
son in person and that is why he watched him
from the street every day from the secrecy of
his work wan. His mom eventually agrees to
let Kornél see his father on a regular basis.
Kornél is happy but at the same time a little
disappointed because he now knows that
all Izabella’s stories were a figment of her
overactive imagination, and he is not in fact
a wanderer. The story ends as father and son
set off to have a game of football.
Kornél is a young kid with
asthma, who makes
friends with a strange girl
in the summer holidays...
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54’
2014
herofinders hőskeresők
Love born in violence
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He manages to identify Conan, and decides
to meet him at his place. Completely out of
the blue, the door is opened not by Conan,
but by his wife who is the woman he has
been drawing in secret in the park. Barbara
is shocked to see him and tells Tamás to get
lost. However, later that day she goes to the
police station to see him. She confesses the
deepest secrets and talks about the darkest
hours of her marriage to Conan. The truth
about the rapist and his sins create a strange
intimacy between them and in the end they
make love.
At the police station, he meets more and more
beaten and sexually abused women, the latest
victims of a brutal serial rapist called Conan
The next day, Tamás is asked about the
finished sketch. It turns out that he has already
identified the rapist, but hasn’t informed his
boss about it yet. His boss wants to arrest
him and tells him that Conan killed a woman
the previous night. Tamás asks for his boss’
permission to leave the police station for a
few hours. He goes to Conan’s flat to meet this
monster in person and shoots him. By killing
Conan, Tamás does penance for not informing
the police and for his sinful love affair with the
mysterious lady, Barbara.
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Directed by Bálint Mattyasovszky zsolnay
Written by Balázs Maruszki
Cast Gergely Kocsis, Zsolt Sarádi,
Kata Pálfi, Vera Sipos,
Réka Pelsőczy
Producers Tamás Babos, Krisztina Lipót
Language Hungarian
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56’
2014
tv movie, drama Long forgotten secrets revealed. In search of a father you must face the past
by the police officers. In the interrogation
room, all the victims try to recall Conan’s
face: Judit, a deeply shocked young female
who finds it hard to remember her attacker’s
face; Helga, an apathetic middle-aged woman
whose son died a week before; and Melinda, a
blind prostitute who is capable of identifying
people in a special way. All the victims recall
their memories about the rapist and relive
the rape again in a completely different way.
Tamás does his best to make Conan’s facial
composite. By drawing a lot of sketches, he
gets closer and closer to the never-seen rapist.
He starts his own investigation and doesn’t
inform his boss about his findings.
Tamás has been working as a sketch artist
at a suburban police station for many years.
His life as a single man is rather monotonous
and painful, since he has to look after his
domineering father who is in the final stage
of cancer. His only pleasure is to draw portraits
of an attractive woman (Barbara) in secret
in a park.
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THE SKETCH ARTIST A RAJZOLÓ
The film is set in a small village in Hungary
in 1990. Life in the village has become hard
with the change of the political system. There
are less job opportunities and the majority of
the locals are unemployed. They get drunk
in the local pub every day and there is little
hope for a better future. In this hopeless world
only one man has real ambitions: CSORNAI
(István Znamenák) is running for mayor and
would do anything in order to increase his
popularity and win the election.
One day an American called FRED PEDRUZZI
(Mike Kelly) walks into the pub causing great
surprise among the regulars. He wants to
find his father whose bomber plane crashed
near the village in the Second World War.
Csornai decides to help the foreigner find his
long-lost father. Not surprisingly, he hopes
to take advantage of the unusual search.
As things get going, some long-forgotten
secrets are revealed. More and more people
get involved and Fred finally meets POLYÁK
(András Stohl), the surly misanthrope of the
village who refuses to help.
Hungarian village in 1944 at Christmastime.
The victim is an American pilot. The
perpetrators wish to get rid of their sin and
ease their guilty conscience by burying the
dead body in secret. But how can they forget
about their deadly sin? The moment of truth
comes when they least expect it. The film is
about this inevitable moment. The arrival of
the pilot’s son turns life in the sleepy village
upside down and makes local people think
about their past.
Learning more about past events, Csornai is
forced to change his mind, and he decides to
make it impossible for the American to go on
with the search. The American tourist, who
was first welcome and cherished by the local
community, becomes a real pain in the neck.
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There is only one young man, Csornai’s
teenage son, ATUS (Norbert Matola), who
does not give up and continues to help Fred.
For the first time in his life he builds up his
courage and stands up against his father.
A sin committed in the past has damaging
effects in the future. The story of the film
is similar to a Greek tragedy. The original
sin is committed by a small community in a
Directed by Bence Miklauzic
Written by Balázs Maruszki
Cast András Stohl, Mike Kelly,
István Znamenák, Erika Bodnár
Producers Tamás Babos, Krisztina Lipót
Language Hungarian
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THE ambassador to bern
A berni követ
DOG DAY AFTERNOON meets TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SPY
freedom flight
szabadság különjárat
58’2013
unbeatables
legyőzhetetlenek
55’2013
tv movie, drama
tv film, drama The River Wild meets The Lord of the Flies
United 93 meets The Lives of Others
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76’
2014
The political thriller of first-time director,
Attila Szász chronicles the day of August
16, 1958, when two Hungarian immigrants
(Tamás Szabó Kimmel and József Kádas)
break into the Hungarian embassy in Bern
and take the ambassador (János Kulka)
hostage.
As the Swiss police surrounds the building
and a group of Hungarian immigrants
shows up on the street to demonstrate, a
tense, twist-filled hostage drama plays out
behind the closed doors of the embassy. The
screenplay by Norbert Köbli (’The Exam’) is
based on a true story.
Hungary, 1956, three months before the outbreak of the freedom fight
and civil war against communism and Soviet occupation. In pursuit
of freedom, three young Hungarians decide to hijack a 15-seater
passenger plane and force it to West Germany. The plan is highly
dangerous: besides risking to get shot down by the communist air
force, the hijackers also have to find and neutralize the undercover
security policeman on board. They agree no to harm anyone. But
events take an unexpected turn… Based on real events.
Four senior high school students go on a rafting trip with their two
guides to discover the wonderful landscapes around the Soča River.
The youngsters have a race and tease each other until one of them,
Gabi breaks her ankle in the heat of the excitement. Although they
spend the night in a good mood celebrating the girl’s 18th birthday
together, the group gets separated the next day due to the injury.
One of the guides takes three of them canyoning, while the other
who is Gabi’s ex-boyfriend plans to slowly boat down the river with
the injured girl. Just before they leave the guy is attacked by wild
bees causing him an allergic reaction and he passes out. Gabi, who
is hardly able to walk, tries to bring him down the river in order to
get help. Meanwhile the other team has an accident too.
In hardly 24 hours these teenagers on the threshold of living
independently not only lose their faith in being invulnerable, but
also step into adulthood without noticing.
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Directed by Attila SZÁSZ
Written by Norbert KÖBLI
Cast János KULKA,
Tamás SZABÓ KIMMEL,
József KÁDAS, Rozi LOVAS, Laszlo I. KISH, Kálmán VARJU
Producers Tamás LAJOS, Tamás MINK
Language Hungarian
Directed by Péter FAZAKAS
Written by Norbert KÖBLI
Cast Réka TENKI, Tamás LENGYEL, Kálmán VARJU
Directed by Isti MADARÁSZ
Written by Bálint HEGEDŰS, Isti MADARÁSZ
Cast Dóra SZTARENKI, Bence MÁTYÁSSY, Simon SZABÓ,
Balázs Benő FEHÉR, Fanni GÁRDONYI, Péter György SZEGI
Language Hungarian
Language Hungarian
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NEW
office in the air
TV series
COMEDY
TV series
low-cost airline 24x26’
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try to cover up shortcomings due to lack
of knowledge, tricks and immature human
games.
The episodes, linked only loosely as sketches,
present the life of an incompatible team
born to struggle in one of the most delicate
business areas, utilizing every possibility
offered by the documentary style. The
central idea of this mocumentary is that the
characters of the film try to project the most
ideal image of themselves possible, but since
the crew can surprise them any time, we also
learn about their most guarded secrets and
that part of their personalities which would
normally exclude from boarding an aircraft
according to flight security protocols.
Róbert Szemlő, an entrepreneur of dubious
fame felt that processing animal protein was
not the best business in Hungary anymore.
He got a great idea and decided to fund a lowcost airline, which is not only fashionable but
is also suited to launder semi-legal incomes.
The story begins by following the classic
recipe. Szemlő gathers his team; obviously
he has no knowledge whatsoever in the field
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Cast Kata DOBÓ,
Zsolt ANGER,
Tamás LENGYEL
Written byGergely Litkai,
András Vinnai
Produced by Gábor Kálomista
Language Hungarian, french
of airline operations and this shortcoming
also reflected on his team. Selection is not
necessarily based on professional grounds.
Szemlő rather relies on Hollywood films
about airlines: the pilot should be handsome;
the uniform should fit him well. Lack of
intelligence is not truly a problem. The flight
attendants should be pretty and if their
resume includes previous air travels they
already passed the entrance exam.
The episodes are 26-minute long, and a
season consists of 24 parts. In the first
season the viewers get acquainted with the
history of the airline from its foundation to
the moment when the closing down of the
company emerges as the outcome of an
investigation by the air travel authorities.
Róbert has a vision of becoming ever more
grandiose. He feels in his gut that the company
would hold its own even in international
comparison. He already sees himself being
featured on the cover of Forbes, and perhaps
even on two subsequent editions. He makes
all efforts to forge his employees into a team
and even a family. He encourages them but
also threatens and even blackmails them
if necessary. During checks they jointly
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3x50’
2015
NEW
TV series
COMEDY
TV series
two against paris ketten párizs ellen
complicated when they only learn the last
meaning of every word listed. Pretty Parisian
girls soon appear and the boys feel obliged
to fall in love. They also run into an intriguing
array of world-worn Hungarian chancers
hanging around the local bars and cafés.
Hard up and hungry, Laci and Pali eventually
telegram home appealing for money, but
instead of cash they find themselves “visited”
by their infamous Aunt Berta, who is quick to
dish out some of her sobering slaps.
First published in 1938, Two Against Paris,
written by Gábor Vaszary (1897-1985), was
loved by readers and critics alike in pre-war
Hungary. The novel contains a number of
autobiographical details as the author lived
in Paris for eight years between 1924 and
1932, which not only provided him with an
inside view of the city but also a wealth of
experience with his fellow countrymen who
also found themselves there. (His second
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Directed byGábor Zsigmond Papp
Written by Gábor Zsigmond Papp
based on the novel of Gábor Vaszary
Producer Gábor Zsigmond Papp
Iván Angelusz
Language Hungarian
bestseller, Monpti, is also set in Paris. It was
translated into 28 languages and adapted for
the silver screen a total of three times, with
one version starring Romy Schneider in 1957.)
Vaszary took a stand against the extreme
right in the early 1940s and fled communism
in 1947 to settle in Switzerland. His works
were then banned in Hungary for more than
40 years before being eventually rereleased
in his native tongue in 1989.
Two Against Paris tells the tale of two
schoolboys from Buda, Laci and Pali Radonyi,
who decide one day to take a trip to Paris
and all because Laci wants to impress the
woman of his dreams. The telegram they
send home simply reads: “Luckily we have
arrived recklessly in Paris. Stop. We need
money or we’ll starve. Stop. The weather’s
fine. Laci and Pali”. It is not a problem that
they speak no French because they can
always use a dictionary, but things get rather
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short films
drama, folktale 30’
2014
Forrest Gump meets Beasts of the Southern Wild
Call to the Corpse tetemre hívás
drama
11’
2014
ROMEO AND JULIET meets C.S.I.
A young farmer lives in deep poverty with
his wife and children on a farm far from the
village.
The driest summer of their lives endangers
everything he has built for his family.
Every day, he prays to God with his childlike
prayers. And every day, their struggle
continues.
As his bitterness grows, he asks for rain like
the world has never seen.
The farmer gets his wish, but God works in
mysterious ways...
‘Call to the Corpse’ is a motion picture
adaptation of János Arany’s ballad with the
same title, written in 1877. In the original work
the young Benő Bárczi’s mourning father is
trying to find his son’s murderers by “calling
to the corpse” his enemies, acquaintances,
friends, kin and finally the town’s whole
population- for he genuinely believes that
the wound would start bleeding as the killer
stands next to the body. All are surprised
when the boy’s fiancé, the beautiful Abigél
Kund makes her appearance and the wound
would start bleeding.
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Directed by Tamas Yvan Topolanszky
Written by Tamas Yvan Topolanszky
Music Tamás Enyedi
Director of Photography Tamás Dobos
Producer Claudia Sümeghy
Directed by Isti Madarász
Written by Isti Madarász
Producer Tamás Lajos
Tamás Mink
Language Hungarian
Language Hungarian
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letter to god levél istenhez
wall
10’
fal2013
short films
short film, drama
Laci is a 16-year-old gypsy boy who lives
off casual jobs. One day, he gets picked up
from the streets along with a small group
of workers for a construction job. He has to
participate in the completion of a wall that
surrounds a series of tenement buildings.
The film follows the various stages of the
construction as Laci helps out the other
workers. In the end, Laci is asked to complete
the work. He now takes his first look beyond
the wall which holds an unusual revelation
for him.
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Directed by Simon Szabó
Written by Simon Szabó
Producers: Julia Berkes,
Viktória Petrányi
(Proton Cinema)
Language Hungarian
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wildlife DOCUMENTARY This classic nature documentary shows
a special habitat of the Carpathian Basin,
the wildlife and environment of the Nature
Conservation Area of the Vargyas Gorge in
4 seasons.
The limestone canyon of the Vargyas stream
is colored by steep rock walls, giant cliffs and
several caves. In the forest – whether be
winter or summer – the European wildcat
goes hunting and the stream is ruled by river
otters and European beavers.
51’
2015
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documentaries
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THE LOST WORLD OF VARGYAS GORGE
vargyas-szurdok elveszett világa
definition images, aerial and macro images
are topped by special camera moving
techniques like kran, slider and drone, time
lapse images and night and day camera trap
images.
This four-season nature documentary is
leading the audience along the micro habitats
of the canyon by teaching and amusing. At the
same time, it transmits the message that to
live and survive in a habitat all creatures from
the tiniest to the biggest, including people,
have to adapt to their natural environment.
The host of the film (and guest of the gorge)
is Livius Varga, the well-known Hungarian
musician and amateur naturalist, who goes
for discovery trips in the canyon, hikes the
cliffs and descends into the depth of the caves.
His day and night wildlife camera traps reveal
big predators of the area like brown bear or
the hiding Eurasian lynx.
The caves also play an important role in the
movie: we meet the biggest bat colony of the
Eastern Carpathians, the tiniest creatures
living on the bat-guano deposits on the cave
floors and also get familiar with the hunting
methods of cave spiders.
This classic wildlife movie uses the most
modern filming techniques. Regular high
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Directed by Szabolcs Mosonyi
Written by Erika Bagladi
Producer Erika Bagladi
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Kunság – The Secret Life of the Puszta 51’
Vad Kunság – A Puszta rejtett élete
2015
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Wildlife documentary
In the middle of the Carpathian Basin, lying
between the Tisza and the Danube, the
landscape is like any other plain in Europe.
It was once shaped by winds and rivers, today
it bears traces of human activities. However,
the Great Hungarian Plain is different. It has
a secret life, where something interesting
happens all the time. On the endless
pastures, male great bustards are hustling
and pushing each other in the breeding
season. With the migrating birds in spring
and autumn the white salty lakes are like big,
crowded airports. Groups of young eagles are
hunting awkwardly, and from the sand the
wind builds 30-40-meter high mounds, which
rabbits turn to cheeses riddled with holes.
The short-eared owl is clapping his wings and
there are so many mayflies over the rivers,
that you can hardly see the other side. In the
forests fallow deer are fighting. The queerest
creature is the protagonist itself. It used to
live here, but as people exterminated it, it
vanished for decades. But this four-legged
predator braves danger. The golden jackal
learnt to become invisible and now comes
back. It wanders alone, then finds a mate,
brings up its cubs and makes a flock of its
own. In the frosty night the new flock wails
together, ”This is our land, our empire.”
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Language Hungarian with English subtitles
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DOCUMENTARY What kind of menu do we consume daily
from a global prospective? Where does our
food come from? How conscious are the
consumers? What is happening in Europe?
And what about Hungary the agricultural
superpower of the past?
Technological innovations and the explosive
development of the agricultural and
manufacturing sector in the 20th century
offered a long-term solution for the planet’s
multiplied population. But today the Green
Revolution’s reserves are depleted.
52’
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globál menü
century. As a result of mass production,
consumers have been separated from the
source of their food - and they didn’t even
notice the process. A significant part of the
generation growing up today, cannot even
imagine how the foods that they consume
daily are produced.
Our film attempts to comprehensively present
all circumstances that lead to this situation
and outline possible solutions by highlighting
the advantages and disadvantages of the
current situation.
With increasing welfare -and GDP- there’s a
growing demand for quality and consumption
of animal-based food products, however, the
Earth is not able to feed so many livestock
indefinitely. Today, approximately seven billion
people share the planet and its resources, but
it is not only human beings who are fighting
for the resources. The number of livestock
in 2013 stood at almost fifty billion, and if the
trend continues, by 2050 we will have to share
Mother Earth with 100 billion livestock. The
question is legitimately raised: how long will
this kind of prosperity be sustainable? Are
there any alternative solutions?
Agriculture and the food industry have gone
through dramatic changes during the last
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Directed by Tamás NOVÁK
Produced by Zoltán JANOVICS
Language Hungarian
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DOCUMENTARY 52’
2013
An underwater photographer’s deep look into the shark fin trade
NEW
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vipera life - a Serpent’s tale
Egy kígyó élete
52’
2014
feature nature DOCUMENTARY The personal story of a small snake in a big world
The viper: the word alone fills most people
with dread. It calls to mind some kind of
huge, writhing monster, lying in wait to bite.
The Hungarian meadow viper (Vipera ursinii
rakosiensis), however, is not large and doesn’t
attack. It is rather small and it would rather
flee. Its venom is deadly only to grasshoppers
and crickets. It almost disappeared because
its habitats were plowed under and drained.
It’s not easy being legless in a world ruled
by four-wheeled machines and two-legged
creatures. The survivors retreated to the sand
dunes of Kiskunság National Park. This is
where our story’s protagonist, 2K366/08,
entered the world. This is her story.
I do not know exactly how many times I
have gone underwater, but I do know that
I have never been under water without a
camera. The camera is my constant diving
companion. We have had thousands of diving
hours together. We have been to the Red
Sea, the Caribbean Sea, Indonesia and the
Pacific Ocean. Everywhere we have been, we
have been only looking for sharks. Besides
admiring sharks, I also feel sorry for them
and I worry about them. Why? Because
they are not the ones who endanger us.
Humans are the ones wreaking havoc on
them. I have travelled all around the world
with my cameraman and friend, Zsolt Sásdi.
What I have found goes beyond my wildest
imagination.
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Zsolt SÁSDI
Written by Attila Dávid MOLNÁR
Produced by Zsolt Marcell TÓTH
Produced by Zsolt Marcell TÓTH
Language Hungarian
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Sharks in my viewfinder
cápák a keresőmben
52’
2014
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DOCUMENTARY We live in a digital age surrounded by
cameras. Many of us got accustomed to our
steps being watched. But Livius Varga, a
musician and naturalist, hasn’t gotten used
to it yet. He is the kind who notices when
being watched. And now he will do the same.
He is fed up with being watched everywhere
and bought some cameras. Small and clever
cameras that can see both in the night and
day. With their help he discovered that at
night his dog was getting into places that
were prohibited for him.
He became elated and started the job in the
city. He put a camera just above the nest of
common kestrels nesting in the window of a
10-storey building and enjoyed the everyday
life of the kestrel family online. After this no
one could stop him. The Danube floodplain
came next, where he found the tracks and
then the dam of the yellow-teeth beaver
and put a camera nearby, so he could get
images of a surprisingly curious specimen
of European beavers. After this, he caught
the train to Transylvania, to the Harghita
Mountains, where his forest-trekker friend,
Norbi met him. Immediately upon arrival,
Norbi threw him into deep water, more
exactly into a real bear cave. Bear tracking
gained momentum just after this. They placed
cameras in the wilderness and thanks to
modern techniques live broadcast started.
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this tree is big
nagy fafilm
DOCUMENTARY Trees are very special creatures. They grow
very slowly and hence they live for very long.
Simply by existing they provide shelter and
food for thousands of other creatures. Trees
are so different from other life forms that
sometimes they look as if they were out of
this world. Their time is spent on a different
scale. For them, a day is like a moment; a
season is like an hour and a year is like a
single day.
52’
2014
The personal story of an oak tree
This story is about an oak tree. A giant which
a lot of interesting things have happened to,
even though it has been standing in the same
place for centuries.
After spending some time with his master,
Livius started for a real challenge: he
ventured into the wilderness alone and set
his cameras at various places to observe the
life of the forest.
Livius has learnt a lot from the locals, people
who during the centuries got accustomed to
living in close proximity to wild game. The
presence of bears and wolves is natural for
them, just like blue sky or green grass. It is
a knowledge without which you cannot live
in harmony with nature.
It is also a knowledge that we try to pass on.
This is why this film was made.
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Attila Dávid MOLNÁR
Produced by Zsolt Marcell TÓTH,
Attila Dávid MOLNÁR
Language Hungarian
Language Hungarian
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small cams, big beasts
kis kamerák, nagyvadak
3x14’, 26’
2014
DOCUMENTARY World’s first boat race built on an environmental pollution
The aim of the PET Cup is to direct public – what else? – garbage from the river. Boats
attention to the Tisza river in Eastern Europe were then recycled along with the loads of
where pollution has increased to an extent plastic collected during the race. In 2014 we
that we can no longer ignore. The source want to collect more PET bottles than ever
of the pollution is the great annual PET before. We want to build new boats from
Bottle Flood which brings tons of domestic trash. We want to make the Tisza a healthy
garbage – mainly PET bottles and plastic river again. And we want to turn the PET Cup
bags from the upstream region of Ukraine into a tradition. With your help, we can do it.
and Romania. Each spring the pollution
wave sweeps across the river depositing the
garbage in the floodplain forests of Slovakia
and Hungary. By now at certain spots the
piles of plastic can reach several meters in
height. After the great cyanide flood in 2000,
the Tisza could hardly recover and, it’s being
severely polluted again. Upon seeing this,
environmental filmmakers from Filmjungle
Society (Hungary) launched the PET Cup
initiative. With the strong support of local
communities, PET Cup started with the
organized collection of PET bottles and other
items of plastic, continued with a boatbuilding
competition where PET boats were built from
garbage and ended in a long-distance boat
race on the river. The first PET Cup was held
in 2013 and was a great success. The PET
Pirates covered more than 100 kilometers
and collected nearly 10,000 bottles from the
river. At the end of the boat race the winner
was given the prestigious PET Cup made of
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Barça’s untold Legends
85’
magyarok a barçáért2014
DOCUMENTARY The legendary Hungarian heroes of FC Barcelona
FC Barcelona is the world’s most successful before he emigrated. László Kubala joined
and popular soccer club.
the club after epic adventures in 1950 and
The motto of Barca “More than a club.” is became Barcelona’s brightest star. 1956 has
certainly true. It is an international brand with changed the history of Hungarian football
tens of millions of fans. Few know though that forever. Several legends of the Golden
the successes of today were established in Team emigrated. Whereas Puskás joined
a past in which brilliant Hungarian players Real Madrid, the leftback Zoltán Czibor and
played an eminent role. The documentary the striker Sándor Kocsis signed on with
tells the story of the Hungarian heroes of Barcelona. The “ragdoll legged” Czibor
Barcelona the “goal-maker” Kubala, “ragdoll nicknamed “the crazy bird” in Spain became a
legged” Czibor, the “golden head” Kocsis and favorite of the Spanish, while the restrained,
the almost forgotten Berkessy and Plattkó. elegant Kocsis became known as the „golden
head” all over Catalonia within a few weeks
The film first presents the first decades due to his legendary headers.
of FC Barcelona’s century-long history.
Ferenc Plattkó was the goalkeeper of the After watching the documentary, viewers
Catalan club between 1923 and 1930, and will no longer be surprised that a poem
was also a favorite of Hungarian fans about a Hungarian goalkeeper is part of the
Spanish curriculum and that a two-meter
bronze statue of a Hungarian player faces
those who enter Europe’s biggest stadium.
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Directed byZsolt Marcell TÓTH
Produced by Attila Dávid MOLNÁR
Directed by Tibor KOCSIS
Written by Tibor KOCSIS,
Dezső András HORVÁTH
Language Hungarian, Spanish, Catalan
Language Hungarian
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valamit visz a víz
DOCUMENTARY In 1949 the show trials started to make
their way in Hungary just like in other
Soviet states. Mátyás Rákosi, the country’s
dictator prepared the biggest and most
spectacular show trial of the era by following
the commands of the Soviets. Outrageous
propaganda machine supported the trial
of László Rajk and his fellow. Thorough
background work was needed to make the
absurd charges and sentences acceptable.
Film, as a genre, played a key role in
the propaganda of that time. However,
the footage supposedly recorded of the
trial disappeared without any trace in the
‘60s. To shoot this huge comedy they also
needed, besides politicians suddenly turned
into scriptwriters and actors, the work of
cameramen and directors.
52’
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time hopper
időgyűrű
3x28’
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scientific DOCUMENTARY with the help of original, unpublished
documents and fictional scenes. We also
asked the late documentary director, Péter
Bokor, who, in his last interview, honestly
spoke about the morals of the era, about
artists and fears.
The professional musician, passionate
angler, amateur naturalist and fanatic tablet
user Lívius Varga is not a withdrawn guy
at all. To activate the brand new TIME-HOP
application downloaded onto his tablet he
has to leave civilization behind and withdraw
into nature. He creates his temporary “time
capsule” homes under the rocky peaks of the
Carpathian Mountains (Part 1 HOLDING ON),
among the reeds of one of the biggest lake of
the Carpathian Basin (Part 2 IN BACKWATER),
and in the canopy of a several hundred-yearold oak tree giant (Part 3 IN THE WOODS).
His evocative adventures always start by
touching the icon of this specific application.
During his epic journeys he tries to trace, peek
and capture with his special cameras the
habitat that has been around for thousands
of years. He is also concerned about learning
the kind of tricks and survival strategies that
were developed by small and large creatures
living there before and currently.
Filming locations include UNESCO World
Heritage sites like the caves of Aggtelek
Karst, Hortobágy National Park, the Primeval
Beech Forests of the Carpathians, Lake
Fertő (Neusiedler See) and some majestic
landscapes like the High Tatra Mountains,
gorges in Transylvania, the River Danube and
one of the oldest oak tree of the Carpathian
Basin in the Transdanubian Gerecse Hills.
The TIME-HOP application starts 15,000
years ago, on the top of the Carpathians back at a time when it haltered a massive
ice sheet - and ends well below ground level
in the amazing caves of the area, in present
times. The journey takes the viewer through
every important period in the history of
this landscape and habitats, teaching and
entertaining at the same time.
What could have happened to the footage of
the trial? Who carried out the secret state
order? What kind of memories have the
elderly film workers been carrying? How
does the relationship between art and power
change in light of the Rajk and Pálffy trials?
The movie Cinema Inferno explores the
background of the trials of Rajk and others
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Directed by Tamás Novák
Produced by Zoltán Janovics
Directed by Zsolt Marcell Tóth
D.O.P. Zsolt Marcell Tóth
Cast Lívius Varga
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Szigetköz - The inland delta of the River Danube
52’
Vad Szigetköz – A szárazföldi delta2013
wildlife DOCUMENTARY DOCUMENTARY To take a good photograph is never easy. To
take a great photograph of an uncooperative
subject -like a bird for example- is even
harder. But to take the perfect image of a
bird in the midst of breathtaking behavior is
practically impossible. Bence Máté, however,
knows the trick for he is invisible! To the bird’s
eye, at least.
In the western access areas to Hungary
life had speeded up - there are windmills,
motorways, big cities and industrial parks
all over the place. Yet, something is hiding
between them. This is an enormous coneshaped alluvial deposit with tiny villages,
forests, and river branches. On one side of
this region is today’s Szigetköz.
Flowing out of the Alps and the Carpathians
the Danube River created this inland delta
unique in Europe. Arriving at the plain,
the river broke into wide branches where
unparalleled fauna developed. These days
the river cannot change its course as freely as
it used to in the old days. The decisive change
came about some twenty years ago with the
diversion of the river and the building of the
hydroelectric plant of Bős. Seeing the grip
of the built-in surroundings, the question is
obvious: can the fauna preserve its former
abundance?
At 16, Bence won his first prize at BBC’s
prestigious Wildlife Photographer of the
Year competition. At age 25 - with more
international awards under his belt - he
continues to surprise the world with stunning
wildlife images. Bence Máté has a special
talent in hiding, hence his amazing success.
The Invisible Wildlife Photographer simply
disappears in one of his specially designed
photography hides, from where he can
enjoy, observe and - to the delight of most
of us - capture what he sees. Birds and other
animals are entirely unaware that Bence is
close by, thus allowing him to photograph
them in unique and rarely seen moments of
intimate behaviors.
A unique window on both bird behavior and
stunning imagery, as well as the ‘secrets’
of Bence’s success, are showcased in this
revealing documentary.
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Produced by Katalin Radóczy
Madelaine Westwood
Zsolt Marcell TÓTH
Produced by Erika Bagladi
Company NatFilm Hungary Co.Ltd.
Language Hungarian
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invisible wildlife photographer3x14’, 52’
láthatatlan madárfotós
2014
DOCUMENTARY series An Eye for an Eye Would Make the Whole World Blind
Children of Dictators is a brand new
documentary series produced by awardwinning directors Eszter Cseke and Andras
S. Takacs. It presents some of the most
influential dictators of the 20th century from
Africa to South America through the eyes
of their children and relatives. The films
bring a rarely seen personal perspective to
history and offer a deeper understanding of
the most feared leaders in the world. The
filmmakers worked without a crew, with only
two cameras in order to have undisturbed
and exclusive access to children of dictators,
namely Lucia Pinochet in Chile, Jaffar Amin
in Uganda, Bettina Goering in Germany, Pol
Pot’s nephew in Uganda and Fidel Castro’s
daughter in Miami.
events, the son of Idi Amin meets the son
Episode 1
of Oboth Ofumbi in Uganda and the most
unpredictable journey of their lives begins…
Hundreds of thousands of people were
murdered during the regime of Idi Amin in On the Spot is an award-winning documentary
Uganda. One of them was Idi Amin’s close series that covers the hot spots of the planet,
friend and minister, Oboth Ofumbi. This brutal digging for human stories behind the news
murder and its absurd cover-up eventually with two cameras, without a crew, giving the
led to the downfall of the African dictator. films extraordinary intimacy and honesty
The children of both Ofumbi and Amin had from the ghettos of Johannesburg to the
to grow up abroad for different reasons… revolution of Egypt, from the earthquakes
They are from different tribes, they believe in Japan to the frontlines of Afghanistan. The
in different Gods and they remember history motto of the series is from the Hungarian war
differently. More than 30 years after the tragic photographer, Robert Capa: “If your pictures
on the spot-Tribes and warRiors
on the spots - harcosok és törzsek
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DOCUMENTARY Tribes and Warriors, the previous season of
On the Spot, is still available at MTVA. The tenepisode series has six episodes about „Tribes”
untouched by western civilization from Africa
to Indonesia (Erbore, Suri, Bijago, Dani,
Korowai, Timor), and four episodes about
people who dedicate their lives to an idea or
cause „Warriors” (Live Commando, Jewish
Settlers, Tibetan Self Immolations, Gaza).
An episode of „Warriors”, Gaza, became the
winner of the most prestigious European
television award, the Golden Nymph for Best
News Documentary at the Monte Carlo TV
Festival in 2013.
aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough.”
The filmmakers have received the Press
Freedom Award in Strasbourg from the
Council of Europe for their exclusive report
on Burma which was aired by BBC World
News too. The tribal series of On the Spot
was given the Prix Jury in Karlovy Vary at
the Tourfilm Festival and On the Spot received
the Golden Nymph for Best Documentary at
the Monte Carlo TV Festival for their latest
documentary from Gaza.
On the Spot won the Golden Nymph Award
for Best Documentary
at the Monte Carlo TV Festival
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Written and directed by Eszter CSEKE
András S. TAKÁCS
Producer Krisztian Gál
Produced by MTVA - Spot Productions
Written and directed by
Eszter CSEKE,
András S. TAKÁCS
Music by Infragandhi,
Secta Chameleon
Producer Katalin BAKOS
Produced by MTVA - Spot Productions 2012
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on the spot - Diktátorok gyermekei
2014
BABEL - The World through Hesna’s Eyes23x52’
Babel- Hesnával a világ
2012-13
“BABEL with Hesna, bringing you looks,
emotions and stunning stories from all over the
world. Because the best stories are produced
by LIFE.”
How does fear shape our lives - in scientific
and in moral aspects? How do we obey
unwillingly the laws of the “new kind of
beauty’ trends? What exciting communities
can we find in the underground flood channels
of Las Vegas, or in the hidden parts of Israel?
And how do new urban planning ideas shape
not only our cities, but also the huge refugee
camps that are established all around the
world?
We live in a world where the most
extraordinary things happen every day.
Hesna, the reporter goes, finds and brings
these stories to us. Exactly the way they
happened. She does not add nor takes away
anything from them. Her only goal is to find
patterns in these stories that can be relevant
for our everyday life.
EPISODES
1) Surviving the Worst
2) Destination: Future
3) Hollywood and War
4) Behind Prison Bars
5) Surveillance and being Surveilled
6) The Magic World of twins
7) Apocalypse
8) Out of the System – Stepping Out
9) Out of the System – Forced Out
10) Treasure hunters
11) Fear and Panic – Closed up in the cell of
Facebook
12) Fear and Forgiving – Fear fuel to keep
one alive
13) Fear as a Tool – North-Korea’s living hell
14) Fear and Impossible – Manipulating the
Chemistry of Fear
15) New Kind of Beauty: I love Ugly!
16) New Kind of Beauty: The living Ken Doll
17) The Temporarily Permanent City - The
story behind the world’s second largest
refugee camp
18) Breaking the Vicious Circle - Forgiving
the impossible
19) Contemporary Capitalist Socialism - The
beautiful life of a Kibbutz
20) Sensing Cities - New levels in urban
planning
21) Hidden Colonies of Modern Times
22) Heroes from Next Door - Meet the modern
Robin Hood
23) Packaged to be Eaten - How and what do
they make us eat?
Babel - this monthly, 52-minute-long
program - is searching for answers to these
exciting questions, exploring not only hidden
places of the world but also hidden trends
that are shaping our lives.
Four episodes of the new series focus on the
various aspects of fear, through presenting
stunning personal stories and asking experts
why we have to cope with fear and anxiety
problems in contemporary society. The
new series also presents different modern
colonies and communities from around
the world, trying to explore how and why
these people choose to leave the normal
framework of society.
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Directed by Tibor VINCE
Written by Al Ghaoui HESNA
Produced by MTVA
Producer Balázs ECKHARDT
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DOCUMENTARY series budapest wild
vad budapest
52’
2014
citylife DOCUMENTARY 2014
the spymaster
a tartótiszt
63’2012
DOCUMENTARY series
docudrama
documentary
citylife DOCUMENTARY we need a garden a rich garden
kellene kiskert bőtermő
7x15’2013
Famous Hungarian alternative musician Lívius Varga has some
problems with time. Fed up with the crazy rhythm of Hungary’s
capital city he decides to move underground. As a psychologist
by profession, he’s eager to know what happens to his sense of
time after spending days in total darkness. He also hopes that his
expedition to the secret time capsules of Budapest helps him to
understand the city’s history.
Lívius is documenting his journey with a small handycam , but we
can also follow his daily routine through infrared security cameras.
Throughout his adventures we learn more and more about the
artificial underground facilities of the city: from the nuclear bunker
under the castle district to the flooded tunnels of the Kőbánya mine.
Budapest Underground features footage never seen before on
television: from the underwater springs of the Gellért Baths to the
newly discovered dripstone wonderland of the Pálvölgyi cave system.
We are not alone – neither in the Universe, nor in our flat! Unconvinced?
Take a torch, a binocular or a microscope and look around in your
home, sweet home. Budapest Wild takes you to the capital of Hungary
- a nice living place for nearly 2 million people. But not only humans
can call Budapest a home… The food, shelter and comfort provided
by this old and beautiful city is also appreciated by wild animals and
plants. By now these species hold firm positions in the streets, our
cellars, lofts and rooms. These city dwellers, however, are only visible
to the trained eye. Join Sándor Badár a truly amateur naturalist on
his not really scientific expedition to one of the weirdest, busiest and
craziest concrete jungles. An HD documentary that won multiple
awards directed by Filmjungle.eu’s renowned wildlife filmmaker
Zsolt Marcell Tóth.
The 7x15 minute series partly follows the structure of seasons
–”Winter”, “Spring” etc. but the order of the episodes is mostly
determined by the plants in focus:“Bean and Corn”, “Poppy Seed”,
“Peas and Onion”, “Pepper and Tomato”, “Potato”. Apart from
introducing plant seeds, fall and spring soil works, planting, summer
activities and harvesting are also discussed. We regularly visit the
school garden where the students, with the help of a professional,
take care of the plants even during summer break.
We accompany adults and kids to celebrations that are determining
events of peasant lifestyle and we participate in a winter chasing
carnival and a pilgrim travel to Szentkút. We follow the program
that started in the fall of 2012 when cultivation started even in the
backyards of the Roma that had been neglected for so long.
The documentary film shows a slice of the state security operations
of the Kádár-regime from a completely new aspect. It is the first
time that a former spymaster speaks openly, including details about
spying on the Catholic Church. The film breaks fresh ground by using
confrontation and unvarnished dialogue and thereby rendering an
authentic picture of the objectives of the state security forces, the
recruitment of informers and the applied coercive methods.
The protagonist is a former police officer, “the spymaster”, who
recruited and kept contact with innumerable secret agents. His area
of expertise was the “fight against the reactionary church”.
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Directed by Balázs Lerner
Cast Lívius Varga
Producer Zsolt Marcell Tóth
Directed by Zsolt Marcell Tóth
Written by Dávid Attila Molnár
Produced by MTVA
Producer Zsolt Marcell Tóth
Directed by Orsolya SZÉKELY
Written by Orsolya SZÉKELY
Produced by Orsolya SZÉKELY
Directed by Ágota Varga
Written by Ágota Varga
Produced by Ágota Varga
Language Hungarian
Language Hungarian
Language Hungarian
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2x26’
ákos
ákos
scientific DOCUMENTARY
concert films
A cruel war is raging behind the scenes.
Native species are fighting with those coming
from afar. Scientists already know what
most people haven’t realized yet: the aliens
suddenly became very numerous - very, very,
very numerous.
Ákos’ career started 25 years ago. Since then
he has recorded 26 Hungarian albums and
released six English EPs. All of his releases
went gold or platinum. The accumulated
sales of his albums reached more than one
million copies in a nation of 10 million. His
movement-like cult following has its core in
the 20-30 year old age-group. He is the only
The ecosystem of the Earth is shrinking and
on the basis of McDonald`s, it is called the
McEcosystem’ where we find more and more
of the same species. Many species arrive
in the Carpathian Basin from Asia, North
America but most get destroyed in their new
environment. Few establish themselves and
even fewer become denizens. But the ones,
who manage to do so, do it on the account
of the native species. But the battle is not yet
decided …..
rock star whose fans have filled Hungary’s
biggest indoor arena, the former Budapest
Sports Hall twelve times.
He is a sophisticated front man: in the span
of over 20 tours he played more than 250
full-time concerts all over the country and
abroad (London, Amsterdam, Barcelona
etc.). All his video releases on VHS and DVD
are bestsellers. He has released the first
Hungarian music Blu-ray disc.
He won many music industry awards,
among them the prestigious Huszka
Jenő Prize by ARTISJUS (The Hungarian
Copyrights Bureau), the OTTO Award by the
internationally acclaimed BRAVO Magazine
(three times!). The Comet Award of VIVA TV
was given to him three times to date. He also
boasts of fourteen Hungarian Grammys
(Golden Giraffe).
The poetry of Ákos is widely known: he
published five books and even an audio
album of his poems.
His company, White Falcon Society is one of
the most significant independent Hungarian
music publishers. Ákos is a member of the
Presidium of The Hungarian Music Publishers
Association. He contributed to the reforming
of ARTISJUS (The Hungarian Copyrights
Bureau), as a member of its Board.
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concert films
documentaries
silent invaders26’
csendes gyarmatosítók
2012
Meanwhile in Budapest
nekem budapest
93’2013
heavenly bird
égi madár
76’2011
butterfly
pillangó
100’2012
legend of hortobagy
hortobágy legendája
79’
Feature length omnibus film, drama
feature film, drama
feature film, drama
feature film, drama
Panni is getting married to the rich landlord Komáromi and thereby
becomes the first lady of the village. Although the marriage makes
her wealthy, she is not in love with her husband, her new family scorns
her and she cannot even find a maidservant among her former good
friends. Miska, her former love interest, unexpectedly returns to the
village and visits her. Panni receives his visit coldly and after mutual
accusations she shows him the door. Panni tells everything to her
husband. Komáromi, however, behaves unmanly and instead of
protecting his wife he has others throw Miska out of the ball which
makes Panni despise him forever. When Panni and Miska meet
again, it is now Panni who doesn’t let the boy return to Pest alone.
Jóska and Zsuzsika are poor day laborers. They swallow the dust of
the threshing machines as they work on the fields from sunrise to
sunset. Despite the rough conditions they fall in love with each other.
Their flourishing love gets threatened when they return home to the
city. Almost everything and everyone is against their relationship.
All refers to a divine commandment of the Bible saying that “poor
girl should marry a wealthy man, and poor man should marry a
wealthy woman”. Jóska seems to accept the idea of a marriage of
convenience and he is planning to marry to a girl chosen by his family.
Zsuzsika – wearing a mask and a carrying revolver– is approaching
the window of the bridal house to kill her unfaithful lover…
The movie combines 3 stories about Hortobágy. It looks at the
honesty, fallibility, toughness and the deep emotions of these ancient
Hortobágy people through a sacred lens. The director was inspired
by a novel “Komor Ló” (Gloomy Horse – written by Zsigmond Móricz)
and his own visions of reality. The movie is based on two legendary
stories of the Hortobágy people told by word of mouth that take
place in 1945 and during the Communist takeover.
Hortobágy is mainly known as Hungary’s largest national park.
Hortobágy is similar to a steppe, a grassy plain with cattle, sheep,
oxen and horses tended by herdsmen. Hortobágy provides habitat
for a great variety of species. The more than 800 km² region has
been named a World Heritage site.
feature films
feature films
2007
The project bearing the title ...meanwhile in Budapest is a series of
loosely connected short films with the common element: they are
all set in the reality of the capital as anyone may experience it. The
8 short films are approximately 8-15 minutes long and each film
tells a simple, everyday story. Every one of these short films is a
low-budget production set at authentic venues and produced with
a small crew. These components all emphasize the “here and now”
nature of the situation and result in colorful portraits of Budapest.
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Directed by Áron Ferenczik, György Mór Kárpáti, Attila Pluhár,
Péter Szeiler, Dániel Bálint, Bálint Szimler,
Erika Kapronczai - László Csuja - András Pires Muhi, Gabor Reisz
Written by Áron Ferenczik, György Mór Kárpáti, Attila PluhárJúlia Széphelyi, Péter Szeiler, Dániel Bálint, Bálint Szimler,
Erika Kapronczai - László Csuja - András Pires Muhi, Gabor Reisz
Producer Julia Berkes (Proton Cinema), Ákos Schneider (AZT-Média)
Language Hungarian, english
Directed by László VITÉZY
Written by László VITÉZY, István Sz. SZABÓ
Cast Réka TENKI, Sándor CSÁNYI , Kálmán VARJU, Sándor GÁSPÁR,
Gábor REVICZKY, Ági SZIRTES
Producer Gábor KÁLOMISTA
Cast Vivianne BÁNOVITS, Bálint ADORJÁN, Ági SZIRTES,
György CSERHALMI, Gábor REVICZKY, Anna RÁCKEVEI
Cast Károly EPERJES, Sándor CSÁNYI, Ági SZIRTES,
Gábor REVICZKY, Lia POKORNY
Language Hungarian
Language Hungarian
Language Hungarian
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T.U.K. Please Sir!
T.Ú.K. Tanár úr kérem!
58’2011
sobri
sobri
100’2002
feature film, drama
feature film, drama
feature film, drama
feature film, adventure
Last Rhapsody is an exciting, fast-moving and heart-rending film
rich with deep emotions. It recalls the final days in the life of one
of history’s greatest composer and the eternal mystery of the
relationship between artist and muse. It is a story of passionate
love, death, immortality and unconditional devotion.
In 1911, to mark the centenary of Ferenc Liszt’s birth and the 25th
anniversary of his death, a Budapest theatre is preparing for the
premiere of a play recalling the composer’s final days in Bayreuth.
On one occasion, a mysterious woman appears during a rehearsal,
asserting that the play does not correspond to reality and that Liszt
did not die as we know from various novels and recollections. The
actors want to learn the truth, and so the woman reveals the painfully
beautiful relationship between Liszt and one of his last pupils, Lina
Schmalhausen, which lasted from the middle of the 1870s to his death.
The film relates to the life and career of Vilmos Zsolnay, a worldfamous potter, founder of modern Hungarian ceramics and inventor
of the lustrous glaze known as eosin.
Set in the second half of the 19th century, we visit Hungary during
an era of great technical advancement and intellectual prosperity.
Zsolnay’s father wants the young Vilmos to become a merchant
but his exuberant son has very different plans. He tries his hand
at painting, imagines his future in art and spends much of his time
talking to his long-dead sister in her room. Then an enigmatic old
man from Italy appears who has haunted him since his teenage years.
Vilmos’ brother, himself a man of the world, founds a pottery in the
town but fails to find contentment in his work, so eventually leaves
the factory to Vilmos. It is then that the mysterious Italian gives him
the secret recipe for the glaze to a vase from Gubbio, which radically
changes the course of Vilmos Zsolnay’s life.
On May 5, 1936, celebrated author Frigyes Karinthy undergoes brain
surgery in Stockholm. Frici, a 16-year-old boy appears before him in
the operating theatre. Karinthy sees himself. The young man beckons
the writer who is drifting between life and death into a strange world.
The author’s childhood experiences come alive before him - the
same experiences he had immortalized before in his novel Tanár
úr kérem (Please Sir!).
The oppressive proximity of his passing brings a new perspective to
these nostalgic reminiscences. Karinthy wonders in consternation
through this inverted world as Frici falls in love, becomes embroiled in
conflict with his teacher, fails Hungarian class and appears destined
for military school. Eventually, he too develops into a writer. Only one
question remains: Was Karinthy’s operation a success and will he
return to the world of the living?
Sobri is a feature film that relates the life of Jóska Sobri the legendary
outlaw of the Bakony Mountains from 1830. The story is based on
historical events and legends alike.
It is also available as TV series.
feature films
2011
zsolnay - the lover of the soil
zsolnay - a föld szeretője
100’2010
feature films
last rhapsody
az utolsó rapszódia
75’
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Directed by Bence GYÖNGYÖSSY
Written by Tibor FONYÓDI
Cast Tamás JORDÁN, Ilona NAGY, A ndrea SÖPTEI,
Péter KÁLLÓY MOLNÁR,
Producers Bence GYÖNGYÖSSY, Barna KABAY
Directed by Zsolt POZSGAI
Written by Zsolt POZSGAI
Cast Áron ŐZE, Éva AUKSZ, Gábor KONCZ, László GÖRÖG
Produced by HORATIO FILM for MTVA
Directed by Áron MÁTYÁSSY
Written by Frigyes KARINTHY
Cast Roberto GIACOMELLO, Benett VILMÁNYI, Csaba PINDROCH,
Géza HEGEDŰS D.
Producers Sándor CSORTOS SZABÓ, István KOLLER
Available as 6x56’ TV series as well
Directed by Emil NOVÁK
Produced by MEGAFILM 2002
Language Hungarian
Language Hungarian
Language Hungarian
Language Hungarian
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bánk bán
bánk bán
99’
drama
drama
opera
1974
Torch
A lámpás
93’
1972
drama
sunflower
napraforgó
96’
1974
adventure
sons of the slave man
rab ember fiai
90’
1978
adventure
TV MOVIES
abel in america
ábel amerikában
65+70’1994
TV MOVIES
abel in wilderness
ábel a rengetegben
106’1994
The film is set in Transylvania, in the
mountains of Harghita in 1920. By then
Transylvania belonged to Romania due to
the peace treaties closing the First World
War. The hero figure, Abel is a fifteen-year-old
adolescent boy from a poor peasant family
who is forced by poverty to work far from
home. His father finds him a job where he
is in charge of the forest of the neighboring
city’s bank. The forest is up in the snow-drifts
where he can only depend on himself and
his intelligence. The death of his mother and
the long time spent in solitude forces him to
come of age by the end of the story.
Screen version of the famous novel written
by Transylvania-based Hungarian author
Áron Tamási. Abel, fed up with poverty and
hopelessness, embarks on a new life in
America joining the flood of immigrants of
the 1920’s.
The TV version of one of the most famous
Hungarian operas, Bánk bán tells the story
of rivalry and jealousy. Bánk is an influential
Hungarian nobleman with a beautiful wife,
Melinda. The evil Queen wants to weaken
Bánk and therefore encourages
her brother to conquer Melinda’s heart and
break the nobleman in the
process along with his political power.
A young teacher starts his life with a pure
heart and an unbroken will. He undertakes
not only the hard life of the day laborers of
the nation, but a lot more: the armed service
of the flag by Hungary people who stand
up against oppression during the war of
independence.
Italian – Hungarian coproduction based
on Gyula Krúdy’s novel of the same title.
This particular “dream world” emerges
from the amalgamation of the life in Pest
at the beginning of the last century and the
lifestyle of the 19th century country houses,
in which the main characters of Sunflower
live their extraordinary and lonely lives. It
is an artificial world through which Krúdy
depicts the decadent, helpless characters
of his time with some criticism.
The Turks are demanding further taxes from
Prince Apafi who sends them two hundred
gold coins to be handed over by Kristóf
Szitáry. Szitáry takes his two sons along
and on their way they stay at the house of
the merchant Piszliczár, who steals from
Szitáry. Since everybody thinks that Szitáry
is the thief, the Prince jails him and his sons
are held hostage by the Turkish pasha. The
children escape with the help of Cselebi, then
with the help of Pipitér they are preparing
to free their father on the Isten Island of the
Ecsedi swamps. After numerous adventures,
they finally succeed.
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Directed by Sándor MIHÁLYFI
Written by Áron TAMÁSI
Music by György SELMECZI
Produced by MTVA
Producers Árpád LUKÁCS, János ARABIK
Directed by Sándor MIHÁLYFI
Written by Áron TAMÁSI,
Tamás MENYHÉRT
Music by Tivadar FÁTYOL
Produced by MTV
Directed by Vámos László
Music by Ferenc ERKEL
Produced by MTV
Directed by Miklós HAJDUFY
Written by Géza GÁRDONYI
Music by Frigyes HIDAS
Produced by MTV
Directed by Gergely HORVÁTH Z.
Written by Gyula KRÚDY
Music by Miklós KOCSÁR
Produced by MTV - RAI
Directed by Miklós MARKOS
Written by Ferenc MÓRA
Music by András RÁNKI
Produced by MTV
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Language Hungarian
Language Hungarian
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hacktion
hacktion
crime
crime The basic concept of the new season
of Hacktion is the introduction of a new
investigation team, Major Case Squad
along with the Infrastructure Protection
Team known from the first season. The
new law enforcement team merges the
latest information technology with classical
investigative techniques.
There is a war raging in the world today of
which the general public knows nothing. It
is not fought with conventional weapons but
with computers. The age of the average foot
soldier is less than 20 and they are all highly
trained hackers.
Hacktion is the latest drama series from
MTVA - Hungarian Public Media that reveals
the inner workings of the Infrastructure
Defense Division (IDD). Betti Zsolnay (Szonja
Oroszlán) works as a police IT expert and
As their name suggests, the department
is expected to clear up cases urgently with
utmost priority.
also happens to be a pretty smart hacker.
She is called in to help with a special police
operation where a high-ranking military
intelligence officer, Colonel Szabo (Tamás
Dunai), spots her talent for technology.
Betti soon finds herself working for the
Infrastructure Defense Division that was
formed to fend off internet attacks and track
down cyber criminals. She thinks she knows
what she has signed up for but it turns out be
a whole lot more…
30x52’
2011-12
András (Ferenc Hujber) is the ace at the
Infrastructure Defense Division and the one
in charge of all operators. He initially protests
against Betti’s rapid recruitment but he soon
realizes that he rather likes the new girl.
Betti is officially employed by Hacktion Ltd.,
which acts as the cover organization for the
Infrastructure Defense Division, where her
cold, professional relationship with András
is quickly replaced by an entirely different set
of emotions...
The crime cases are all IT and internet
related, but during the actual investigation
they use old-school, analogue methods. The
new season is based on the latest trends in
criminology, the most efficient, integrated
application of so-called online and offline
investigative tools.
Every episode tells a separate case which
is solved by the end of the episode. The
only theme that loosely links the episodes
together is the personal micro stories of the
main characters.
The protagonist is inspector Péter Szondi
and an additional lead character joins him
in each episode. Apart from serious topics,
humor also plays a constructive part in the
new season of Hacktion Reloaded.
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Directed by Gergely FONYÓ, Róbert PAJER, Péter SOÓS
Written by Iván SZABÓ
Screenwriters András M. KOVÁCS, András SZEKÉR,
Balázs MARUSZKI, Ágota B. BENEDEK, Juli JAKAB
Music Ádám BALÁZS
Produced by MTVA - MEGAFILM Service
Language Hungarian
Directed by Kristóf DEÁK, Dénes OROSZ
Written by Tibor FONYÓDI
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TV series
TV series
Hacktion - reloaded49x52’
hacktion - újratöltve
2012-14
work matters – YR 1-3
Munkaügyek – 1-3 évad
80x25’
2012-14
A sitcom of 25-minute episodes about
everyday life at the Labor Inspectorate as
it faces an audit from Brussels. Precision,
competency, professionalism. These words
form the least apt description of the Labor
Inspectorate and its staff, who – even in the
middle of the greatest chaos – tend to make
their own trifling problems and personal
conflicts a priority above their work. Truly,
work never stops in the office, but it is so
because it never started in the first place.
The lovable office personnel carry on with
their activities with the same enthusiasm as
we have already got used to, which might be
considered as proper work process by the
unsuspecting viewer. The main character of
the unlikely situations is Elvira, the leader of
the inspectorate, who is “the oldest piece of
furniture” in the office. There are János, the
dedicated, hypochondriac bureaucrat who
tries to write his name into history under
her leadership, Katalin, the half-educated
HR assistant, who is suffering from the lack
of men in her life. Albert is still struggling
with his alcohol addiction, but is able to
produce a great pile of unnecessary official
papers in order to veil his inadequacy. Timi,
the lively, ginger – otherwise incredibly
“blonde” – receptionist is still unable to keep
anything in mind. There is an important role
for Tamás, the top manager of our time, who
is a consultant from the private sector. In
the new season, Karesz, the shabby trainee
returns. He is the latest workforce with a
fresh degree after nine grievous years at
university whose first workplace is the „Office
of Labor and Space Security” hence does
not take his duties that seriously. In the new
episodes the outstanding team proves the
eternal truth: It’s only those who do nothing
that make no mistake. Certainly, they do not
make mistakes…
Work Matters
IrReality Show
Piroska
Molnár
Zoltán
Mucsi
tünde
Murányi
Ferenc
Elek
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Written by Gergely LITKAY,
András Péter KOVÁCS,
László HADHÁZI
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lehel
Kovács
TV series
TV series
comedy, unreality show
112x52’
2011-14
TV series
travel and gastronomic show
The program mainly focuses on ingredients
and raw materials, but also makes guests
try to grow tomato, extrude oil or prepare
red pepper. The main characters are the
delicious dishes, the wines and all that is
in the program’s suggestive packing. The
program is about everything that is beyond
ingredients and around the saucepan. Target
audience: men and women mostly living in
cities between the ages of 25 and 48 and
those who read gastronomic and wine
blogs, like to cook and visit wine-cellars and
restaurants. They switch on the TV only for
this program. The program addresses high
quality gastronomy, traditional Hungarian
cuisine and the past, present and future of
Hungarian gastronomy.. It is filmed in reality
style; it is youthful, full of humor and recorded
at various outdoor locations. For one thing,
we show the grower from the plain who
knows exactly how to tallow, butcher and
side traditional Hungarian sheep to become
a Michelin-star roast lamb in a restaurant in
the city of Budapest.
the curse
átok
13x30’2011
in the line of fire
tűzvonalban
37x50’
2007-10
logbook „89-09”
hajónapló
12x25’2009
drama
crime
drama
The Curse won the
Best TV Series Award
at the 41st Hungarian Film Festival.
An exciting tale of two siblings. Thirty-year-old
Marci is struggling to support his wife Kata
and their anorexic teenage daughter Luca.
Meanwhile, his sister Eszter is living the
exhausting but well paid life of an EU lawyer in
Brussels. It is only the death of their father that
brings the estranged siblings back together.
The encounter is not free from conflict as the
wounds of years passed are opened up in
the family’s summer house in Balatonfüred.
Eszter’s inheritance is formal only in nature
and her father’s material wealth passes to
Marci. He is to receive a vineyard, a wine cellar
and a special wine developed over many years
and known in the family simply as “The Curse”.
Best Crime Series,
DetectiveFEST, Moscow
One of the most recent and award-winning
productions of Hungarian television, this
crime series is about a young and ambitious
cop forced to work in a rough inner city
precinct as punishment for a professional
mistake. However, there are other reasons
behind his reassignments…
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angel gastro
gasztroangyal
The series of short TV movies deconstruct
the long history of the past 20 years following
the change of the political system in Hungary
into small personal life stories. The films
are based on short stories of famous
contemporary Hungarian authors, whose
primary aim was to tell real human stories
about everyday people in the form of bitter
satires. An interesting contrast is added to the
films because they were directed by young
filmmakers whose techniques mirror the
21st century...
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Directed by Róbert ZOMBORI
Written by Mária BORBÁS
Produced by MTVA - STARTCOMM LTD.
Directed by Áron MÁTYÁSSY
Written by Péter GÁL, Zsuzsanna SZÁSZI, Csaba TÓTH, Edit ZAKÁL
Music by Dániel HÉRINCS
Produced by MTVA - Budapest Film Ltd.
Producer Sándor CSORTOS SZABÓ
Directed by Péter SOÓS
Róbert PAJER
Produced by FILMART for MTV
Directed by Viktor Oszkár NAGY,
Bence MIKLAUZIC, Szabolcs HAJDU,
Sára CSERHALMI, Áron MÁTYÁSSY,
Natália JÁNOSSY, Gergely FONYÓ,
Ferenc TÖRÖK, Lili HORVÁTH,
Csaba BOLLÓK, Márk BODZSÁR,
Béla BAGOTA,
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Language: Hungarian
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it’s summer at long last
na végre itt a nyár
12x26’2002
abigail
abigél
4x80’
drama
adventure, comedy
teenage, adventure
adventure, romantic
1978
an old-fashioned story
régimódi történet
6x50’2006
kántor
kántor
5x60’
drama
adventure, crime
1976
TV SERIES
in angel’s skin
angyalbőrben
13x60’1988
TV SERIES
the café
presszó
12x50’2008
Ten years ago, the Café told the story of three
girlfriends and a man of tragic ending. In
2008, the world of the Café is revived with the
director promising real problems and thoughtprovoking situations. In addition to the new
stories of the new characters the heroes of
the past also appear. Once again they tempt
their destiny by giving yet another chance to
themselves to believe that man cannot step
twice into the same river. The Café opens after
a major refurbishing; it has now two owners,
Mari, the daughter of the old owner and Ági, a
former school-mate. They have been running
the place jointly for years and finally now they
could rebuild it and realize their dreams. On the
opening day the regular patrons appear; some
strange characters, each of them bringing
along their own common, but sometimes
incredible stories… meanwhile there is music
all the time…
The successful Hungarian comedy series „In
Angel’s Skin” shows the comical side of the
military service in 13 episodes.
This film follows the great tradition of
Hungarian family movies. As opposed to
numerous American films ostensibly for the
young, this movie satisfies a long-felt need
for youth films while offering a high-quality
entertainment.
The main character of the story is Georgina
Vitay, the daughter of a general, who is hiding
at a rural faith-based girls’ school in the last
year of World War II, because her father is an
active participant in the Hungarian resistance
movement and is threatened with arrest. Right
on the first day Gina realizes that here, in this
hidden place, far away from the world, lots
of peculiar things happen. Although others
ostracize her, she maintains one remaining
hope, the mysterious Abigail who helps
everyone.
Based on a family saga written by famous
Hungarian author Magda Szabó, this miniseries tells the story of several generations
of a wealthy Hungarian family. Shot in the
style of old-fashioned photographs, it is a
truly unique television experience.
The main character of the crime series is a
one-of-a-kind police dog. The film was made
in 1976 and features Kántor, the illustrious
four-legged detective, who managed to
charm his audience more than 20 years
before his Austrian colleague, Rex.
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Produced by GREENWORKS for MTV
Directed by György GÁT, Miklós SZURDI
Written by György GÁT
Produced by TNG for MTV
Directed by Gergely FONYÓ
Written by Péter TÍMÁR
Music by Tibor BORNAI
Produced by MEGAFILM
Directed by Éva ZSURZS
Written by Magda SZABÓ
Produced by MTV
Directed by Géza BEREMÉNYI
Written by Magda SZABÓ
Music by Károly HORVÁTH
Directed by László NEMERE
Written by Rudolf SZAMOS
Produced by MTV
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B&W
Language Hungarian
thorn castle
tüskevár
8x30’
youth
adventure
children, youth
1967
vivAt benyovszky
vivát benyovszky
13x60’
1975
black town
fekete város
7x60’
adventure
drama
1971
the nameless castle
névtelen vár
6x60’1981
adventure
TV SERIES
captain tenkes
tenkes kapitánya
13x30’1964
TV SERIES
bowler and potato nose
keménykalap és krumpliorr
4x60’
1978
Members of the Wild Goose boy scout troop
conspire to track down the little monkeys
stolen from the Zoo. They try to correct
everything that was fouled up by naughty,
troublemaker adults. Their path is crossed
time and again by the possessed Bagameri,
a disguised, scheming ice-cream vendor,
who is out to get the award promised for
the monkeys.
Acting on the order of the patriotic (kuruc)
captain Adam Béri Balogh, the astute
Máté Eke gathers the peasants. They start
raiding the labanc forces from their base in
the Castle of Tenkes hill. They cause lots of
complications to the emperor blue (labanc)
Colonel of Siklós and later even take over his
castle. Máté continues the fight against the
labanc army as the captain of Siklós.
The hero of the film is a little boy.
Overprotected by his parents, he cannot even
go to pioneer camp. In the summer break
he is allowed to visit a relative near Small
Balaton. His host shows him the beauty of
nature. The holiday has only one condition:
he has to study well.
Móric Benyovszky hussar captain is having
a great time at the ball of the Viennese royal
court. He is on his way home, when his
footman Máté informs him that his house
at Verbó was taken by his brothers–in-law.
Benyovszky goes to Verbó to negotiate with
the Ocsay brothers who are happy to offer
their help. Tamás Omachel warns his friends
against any thoughtless steps to retake the
house by force, but offers his own residence
instead. Anna Lentulay is Tamás’ fiancée, but
is secretly in love with her childhood friend,
Móric Benyovszky. The earl refuses her and
the girl commits suicide. Tamás can never
forgive Benyovszky for the death of the girl.
The multi-plot story begins on the eve of the
18th century. Pál Görgey is the vice prefect of
Szepes County. Having widowed early, he is a
lone wolf with a confused soul. He is waiting
for the New Year in a gloomy mood while
the city of Lőcse celebrates the new century
with festivities. The lead casting tradition
of the New Year’s Eve, however, spoils the
party of the town`s elders with an ominous
prediction. The New Year hunt of the next day
indeed ends in tragedy. This is how a long
feud starts: the vice prefect first fights for
the power of the county held by the nobility
and later for his mere survival. The citizens of
Lőcse fight to maintain their Saxon privileges
and for their city.
This romantic story takes place in Hungary
around Lake Fertő during the days of
Napoleon. Earl Vavel chose this location
to hide the French crown princess from
Napoleon and the French revolution. A spy,
Karolin who was sent to track them down
falls in love with the earl, although her
mission is to abduct the disguised princess.
Napoleon’s army reaches Hungary and
the earl goes to fight joining the Hungarian
nobility and unsuspectingly entrusts Katalin
to the care of Marie.
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Directed by Tamás FEJÉR
Written by Ferenc Örsi
Produced by MTV
Directed by Tamás FEJÉR
Written by István FEKETE
Produced by MTV
Directed by Igor CIEL, Gábor VÁRKONYI
Written by György LENDVAI, Pavol SOBOTA,
Jozo NIZNÁNSKY
Produced by MTV-CZTV
Written by Kálmán MIKSZÁTH
Produced by MTV
Written by Mór JÓKAI
Produced by MTV
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a strange marriage
különös házasság
4x74’
1979
and yet the earth moves
és mégis mozog a föld
3x55’
1972
the widow and her daughter
özvegy és leánya
4x50’1980
days of széchenyi
széchenyi napjai
6x50’1985
the sipsirica
a sipsirica
2x50’
adventure
adventure
adventure
adventure
adventure
1979
sándor rózsa
rózsa sándor
12x50’
1971
TV SERIES
TV SERIES
adventure
Count János Buttler hurries home for the
holidays to his parents and to his love. On
his way, he stops at the house of Baron
Dőry where he falls into a devious trap.
In the presence of false witnesses, he is
forcefully married to the pregnant daughter
of Baron Dőry. The priest celebrating the
marriage is the father of the child to be
born. Although Buttler and his family and
friends do everything to annul the marriage,
the Church and the royal court resist for fear
of losing their authority. This forces János
Buttler and his love to choose a different
route to get a divorce. The film version of
the successful novel of Kálmán Mikszáth
starring unforgettable giants of Hungarian
cinema.
The three-part TV film based on the novel of
Jókai portrays five students from Debrecen:
Kálmán Jenőy, Pali Barkó, Sándor Bíróczi,
Mihály Borcsay and Feri Csuka. They
are expelled from college for editing the
rebellious “csittvári” chronicle, upon which
the five boys set off for “that endless nothing
called the world “. From here, the story
proceeds by focusing on the fate of Kálmán
Jenőy.
The widow, Mrs. Tarnóczy is dead set on
choosing a husband for her daughter who
has just come of age. She therefore bans
Kálmán Mikes, the childhood playmate of
her daughter from entering their palace. His
older brother János, recently returned from
abroad where he served as a guard, comes
up with a mischievous plan to help out the
inconsolable Kálmán.
Captain Széchenyi is wandering around in
Europe collecting interesting experiences and
having romantic adventures. Upon returning
to Vienna, however, he starts thinking about
marriage seriously. The mother of his chosen
girl refuses his marriage proposal on account
of his infamous love affairs. Emotional turmoil
is cut short when Széchenyi is summoned by
his regiment. As a Hussar captain he comes
to know his homeland and its troubles better.
He also finds himself in conflict with associates
and principals alike. He meets Wesselényi, a
Transylvanian magnate just at the right time.
They decide to go to England to study horse
breeding and so Széchenyi leaves behind his
regiment.
The film starts in an idyllic milieu, the White
Peacock, a garden restaurant owned by Mrs.
Jahodovszka a Polish immigrant. The place
is cheered up by the adolescent daughter of
the landlady, Sipsirica, who is always around
chatting with the regulars at their tables. One
day, however, the regulars wait in vain for
the innocent little girl with the r bright smile.
Her strict mother sends her from the “city of
sins” to Krakow to her aunt to the deepest
disappointment of teacher Druzsba, the
godfather of Sipsirica. The school duties of
teacher Druzsba, however, soon call him to
Upper-Hungary. On the road, he discovers
something that not only outrages him, but
turns the honest, puritan teacher into a rebel.
In the 1830’s, Vienna-controlled Hungary
experiences another depressed historical
period. The quiet solitude of the Hungarian
Great Plain spotted by small farms is
stirred up by the rule of the gendarmes
and persecutors believed to be invincible.
Tension between the authority and the people
is palpable. And so the legend of the betyárs
(highwaymen) was born, among them, the
legend of Sándor Rózsa, who became an
infamous bringer of justice around the plains
of Szeged.
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Music by Zdenkó TAMÁSSYY
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Directed by Igor SÍK
Written by Mór JÓKAI
Music by Frigyes HIDAS
Produced by MTV
Directed by Gergely Z. HORVÁTH
Written by Zsigmond KEMÉNY
Music by Balázs SZUNYOGH
Produced by MTV
Directed by Ádám HORVÁTH
Written by István NEMESKÜRTY
Produced by MTV
Directed by Ilona KATKICS
Written by Kálmán MIKSZÁTH,
Gábor THURZÓ
Music by László MELIS
Produced by MTV
Directed by Miklós SZINETÁR
Written by Zsigmond MIKLÓS
Tamás SÍPOS
Music by András RÁNKI
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the past confessed
bevallott múlt
2x26’, 52’2012
healing tradition
gyógyító hagyomány
3x26’2014
endemica hungarica
endemica hungarica
36’2011
tastes, teas and gardens
ízek, teák és kertek
56’2012
wandering in africa
afrikai barangolások
9x26’2011
documentary series
documentary film
nature documentary
wildlife documentary
documentary film, travelling
documentary series
This ambitious series presents the history
of Hungary in 46 episodes. The Hungarian
Television offers an exciting intellectual
adventure instead of stories taken from
schoolbooks. With assistance from
historians and the presenter György Nagy,
viewers are invited to become explorers and
take a fresh look at already known facts that
might not have been previously processed on
a conscious level.
60 Andrássy Street. There is hardly any other
place in Hungary which became more of a
symbol of oppression and terror. The building
served as the headquarters for the repressive
machineries of two murderous dictatorships.
It is no coincidence that in February 2002, a
museum, a research centre and a monument
were established here for the simultaneous
presentation of the two totalitarian systems
of the 20th century. The documentary „The
Past Confessed”, follows the history of the
institution from the time when the museum’s
idea was first conceived through the present
day.
The documentary focuses on folk traditions,
which for thousands of years were the only
method of healing. Today these traditions
experience a renaissance that makes our
documentary particularly timely. Our crew
visited 40 locations and covered 6,000
kilometers in order to document and present
the ancient folk traditions. The three films
were shot all over the Carpathian basin,
on the picturesque slopes and in villages
of Hungary, Transylvania in Romania and
Transcarpathia in Ukraine. The people
appearing in the film are Hungarian-speaking
locals as well as ethnographers, researchers
of folk medicine, herbalists, phytotherapists
and doctors.
The Carpathian Basin situated in the middle of
Europe, is unparalleled in terms of biodiversity.
The development of this rich wildlife was made
possible by varied climate, topography and
soil.
Amongst the numerous animal species, there
are some that are only endemic to this region.
They evolved in the Carpathian Basin or arrived
from distant landscapes in the distant past and
started their unique evolutionary route here.
There are very few countries in the world
with as many stereotypes and contradictions
as China. When we talk about the country of
silk, tea and the Great Wall, people generally
visualize the exotic legends of imperial
dynasties, the varied forms of martial arts,
the horrors of the Mao era and the picture
of an ever growing future industrial world
power.
This film was shot over a period of four years.
It introduces these rare and special animals
and their behavior with the help of unparalleled
film material never seen before on screen. A
wildlife documentary on animals living in the
heart of Europe that belong to some of the
rarest species on Earth.
Why would a European man travel to Africa
if he is not an explorer, nor a missionary, or a
business man, if he does not want to educate
and is not a member of a humanitarian
organization? As the saying goes: “There are
two types of people, one who loves Africa and
one who has never been there.”
József Sáfrány has visited the black continent
plenty of times with his camera. This time
he follows the footsteps of Dr. Livingstone,
world-famous Scottish doctor-missionary,
throughout the nine episodes of his
documentary series.
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Director Richárd M. Nagy
Editor Gyula Hatos
Cameramen Tamás Hámori, Gábor Halász, László Reich
Music Erzsébet Darázs
Producer Anna Gábor, Katalin Bakos
Directed by Sándor Novobáczky
Written by Sándor Novobáczky
Produced by MTVA
Producer Sándor Novobáczky
Reporter Szilvia Mohácsi
Cameraman Péter Sebők
Editor Zoltán Rockenbauer
Directed by József Sáfrány
Written by József Sáfrány
Camera József Sáfrány,János Lerner,
Zoltán Csóka
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documentaries
documentaries
history of hungary
magyarország története
46x25’
2008-10
unusual stories – eduardo
különös történetek – eduArdO
50’2001
holodomor-Famine in ukraine
holodomor-Ukrajnai éhínség
48’
2007
peasant bible
parasztbiblia
26’2008
repLay
visszajátszás
25’2008
handbags and their ladies
táskamesék
50’2008
docudrama
drama
documentary
animation
documentary series
documentary
Thirteen days of the 1956 revolution of
Hungary come to life as seen by a young
couple and their friends in this fiction film that
features pseudo-archive amateur footages
mixed with present-day images.
Eduardo Rózsa Flores was a journalist who
became a soldier. He was born in Bolivia of
a Hungarian father and a Spanish mother.
He arrived to the South Slav war as the
Spanish-language correspondent of the BBC
and then decided to join the Croatian side
as a volunteer fighter. András Kepes visited
the war zone with Eduardo for the first time
while the fighting was in progress in ’97, now
we wanted to find out if peace could exist
after the war.
Holodomor – is a symbol of the massive
starvation of people in Ukraine. According
to reliable estimates at least eight million
people, including three million children,
died of starvation in Ukraine during the
infamous five hundred days some 75 years
ago, as a consequence of compulsory
food procurement and confiscations by the
Stalinist regime. Generations died off and
several million people suffered long-term
health effects. The horrors experienced
wounded the soul of forty million people.
The entire population of cities and villages
died after horrible suffering in a time when
men ate men.
Animated film of popular folk wisdoms and
tricks. Why don’t women have beard, and
why do women make the bed? In the year of
the Bible, the Hungarian Television made a
unique animation program of the Peasant
Bible, one of the most popular collections
of all times. Commentary is provided to the
animated stories by ethnographers Ilona
Nagy and Annamária Lammel.
Coauthors Lammel and Nagy have been
collecting the stories of their book from
peasants for more than fifteen years
visiting Hungarian-speaking regions from
Burgenland to Transylvania.
Glimpses to a bygone age of Twenty Years
Ago... In this episode we both try to make ends
meet. In the decade of the 80’s we realized that
the economic miracle of socialist Hungary
was burning up our forint reserves fast and
saw our incomes diminish in value. While
we slowly learned the difference between
social welfare and subsistence minimum,
we purchased more refrigerators, washing
machines, video recorders and cars than ever
before. We started to live up our future. But
first let us take a glimpse at the Newsreel in
last week of September 1989.
The documentary examines women’s bags
in their full complexities. It explores the
origins and ancestors of modern handbags
from a cultural history aspect. It also traces
a sociological thread: how the handbag had
been “wandering” among social classes
until it reached its final “destination”. The
documentary also looks at handbags
from a fashion history aspect of: what was
considered fashionable in a particular period
and what was the ideal handbag in the past...
The film shows how contemporary fashion
designers approach this everlasting piece
and what problems they will have to tackle
in order to meet the demands of the 21st
century. And last but not least it is also
discussed how the outfit and the handbag,
as accessory relate
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Directed by Anikó MOLNÁR
Produced by MTV
Directed by Igor HÍDVÉGI
Produced by MTV
Directed by Edit SZENDI
Produced by MTV
Directed by Tamás SERES, Balázs DÉRI
Written by Gergely ILLÉS
Produced by MTV
Directed by Pál SIPOS
Produced by FILM UNITED for MTV
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documentaries
documentaries
footages from the flea market
ecseri tekercsek
50’2005
castles in huNgary
várak magyarországon
50’2008
national parks of hungary
magyarország nemzeti parkjai
10x25’2003
lutheran chUrches
evangélikus templomok
10x26’2001
little hungary in zala country
szabadlábon zalában
5x25’2009
the knights of margat
margat lovagjai
52’2009
documentary
documentary
documentary
documentary
documentary
documentary
The atmosphere of historical past, baronial comfort,
old stories and secrets make a time journey even
more exciting when we visit palaces. In Hungary
the first solitary palaces in the country, more or
less equipped with defense works, were only in
the 17th century. Most of the buildings were erected
in the 19th century after the total expulsion of the
Turks, in the period of the Rococo style. There used
to be 4,500 palaces and manor houses all over
Hungary, a lot of which were destroyed by the
storms of history, but century-old walls of about
3,500 buildings are still intact. Today, more than
fifty of the old palaces and manor houses serve as
hotels welcoming guests with the simultaneous
experience of the atmosphere of the historical past
and its luxury, along with the pampering of body and
soul that our modern age can offer. The program
presents some of the famous Hungarian palaces.
Once they were homes of the clans and
families of the nobility; often they defended
an area or an entire part of the country from
the enemy, be it Turkish or German. Eger and
Sárospatak, Szigliget, Ozora, Hollókő and
Gyula, Siklós, Szigetvár, or Csobánc, Füzér
and Regéc, Sárvár and Sümeg, Visegrád,
Nagyvázsony and Tata are all names that
in the mind of small school children evoke
scenes of heroic battles in defense of our
castles. The program presents some of
famous castles of Hungary.
Hungary has 10 national parks, 145 minor
nature reserves and 35 landscape protection
areas. This series provides a guided tour
of the most beautiful natural treasures of
Hungary, including their unique landscapes
and wildlife.
The Lutheran churches, in addition to housing
congregations, also are the embodiment of
architectural and artistic values and carry
the message of bygone times. The history
of a church is also closely intertwined with
the history, the present and the past of a
given settlement. In a certain sense, despite
their modest dimensions, they demonstrate
historical periods and the struggles and daily
life of our country.
Two typical spoiled urban kids visit the real
Hungarian countryside. They explore a world
where they have never been before. They
get up at hours when they usually just finish
partying in Budapest. Their normally cool
and hip clothes suddenly feel completely
uncomfortable and ridiculous as they start
their adventures in a small and remote
Hungarian village. They are forced to work
with people whom they would normally avoid
and they have to do things which they have
never dreamed of...
Margat is a film about the largest crusader
fort in the world. Following the first crusades
in 12th-13th centuries, European settlers
founded their own states on the Syrian coast
that were defended by enormous forts. By
far the largest and strongest of these was
Margat, a stronghold of the Knight Hospitaller.
What drew these knights to Margat and how
did they live in their gigantic castle? With the
help of plans, 3D animation, excerpts from
contemporary chronicles and reconstructed
scenes, we are able to travel back 800 years
and gain a unique insight into the history of
the great crusades.
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Written by István KALÁSZ
Directed by Károly GYENES
Music by Attila Mátyás MERKABA
László DÉS
Produced by MASTER PRO for MTV
Directed by Ágnes NEMES TAKÁCS
Produced by MTV
Directed by Balázs Déri
Written by Marcell CSÓKÁS
Produced by MTV
Directed by Katalin KÚTVÖLGYI
Written by Ilona BÁNKI
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documentaries
documentaries
palaces of hungary
kastélyok magyarországon
50’2008
busy & body
Lóti & Futi
100x5’
2013-14
ubul
ubul
10x1’1980
1972-79
musical cartoon series
animated filler series
Busy and Body are two full-size puppets
brought to life by two adult actors resembling
children’s drawings. They are colorful,
cheerful and lovable characters. No matter
how much they argue, they are still very
good friends. Each episode is built around
a given situation with funny dialogues and
an additional educational angle for children.
Humor is derived from the characters and
situations in a way that 4-5-year-old children
can understand them, while it also entertains
the 6-9-year-old audience or even older
viewers.
The series presents folk music arrangements by the Silver-Stream
band in an animated film series. The music is rooted in acoustic,
electronic, folk, pop, Latin and rock music base while respecting the
original text of folk songs. This cartoon makes folk culture easily
consumable and entertaining for generations that were socialized
in popular culture. In the anachronistic stories the romanticism
of the “hussar” era mixes with contemporary social issues and
some solutions are to be found to the challenges of the future.
Soon to be available in Hungarian and English. The English texts
are performed by the band in English, while the original Hungarian
folk songs are subtitled.
children animations
children animations
puppet animation
silver stream
ezüst patak
13x4’
Ubul is the hidden hero of cinema.
Ubul can’t avoid getting in the middle of the well-known movies and
ruining them. How he visits the Bates motel, how he escapes the
Titanic or how he defeats the Terminator are just some of his stories.
However we change the storylines, the movies remain recognizable.
We mix Ubul’s adventures with the world of the original motion
pictures and create a colorful but coherent visual fantasy.
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Written by Réka Divinyi,
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Péter Huszár
Producer Sándor Csortos Szabó
Directed by Balázs Pál
Written by Balázs Pál
Music Silver-Stream
Producer György Tálas
Directed by Péter Szeiler
Written by Péter Szeiler
Music Barna Szőke
Producer Tamás Liszka, Ákos Schneider
Language Hungarian, english
Language Hungarian
Silent Animation
LanguageHungarian
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children animations
cartoon
39x20’
1972-78
frakk
frakk
52x10’
1972-79
SÜSÜ, the dragon
süsü, a sárkány
1x50’,8x30’1980
cartoon
puppet
The tranquil lives of spoiled and lazy cats Serena and Lucrezia
is only disturbed by the appearance of Frakk the dog. Their sofar idyllic existence turns into a living hell. Fortunately, the dog is
not the brightest and the clever cats manage to take revenge by
playing some nasty tricks on him. A take on the classic cat and dog
opposition by Hungarian fairy tale writer Ágnes Bálint.
Süsü is a young dragon who has only one head, so he is shunned and
chased away by his family. On his search for a friend he encounters
the Prince. When they get near a town threatened by the ‘terrible
dragon’, the Prince defeats his friend Süsü in a mock fight and wins
the hand of the Princess. Later on, the Prince and the Princess
become King and Queen and Süsü the best friend of their son, the
Little Prince. Then, the kind one-headed dragon himself falls in love
with a dragoness...
This successful animation series has been
broadcast in several European countries (e.g.
Germany, Italy and the Czech Republic) and
depicts the adventures of an ordinary family
facing extraordinary adventures, including
space travel.
Cute children’s TV series with puppets and lots of songs, the best
known of which is probably “I am the famous one-headed one”.
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Béla TERNOVSZKY
Written by József ROMHÁNYI
József NEPP
Music by Tamás DEÁK
Produced by MTV
Language Hungarian
1972-78
Directed by András CSEH, Pál NAGY
Written by Ágnes BÁLINT
Music by Zsolt PETHŐ
Produced by MTV
Directed by Attila SZABÓ, Sándor LÉVAI
Music by István BERGENDY
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children animations
adventures of the mézga family
mézga család kalandjai
1975
waterspider-wonderspider
vizipók, csodapók
39x7’1982
mr. bleating the jack all of trades
mekk mester
13x8’
1976
curious Ele-Phany
kiváncsi fáncsi
13x7’1984
cartoon
cartoon
puppet
cartoon
Vuk, the little fox lives happily among his many siblings in their
parents’ home. As he is livelier and snappier than the others, one
day he wanders into the forest alone. Upon returning, he discovers
that his whole family disappeared. Only later, he comes to know
that the feared humans, the hunters (called among animals as the
‘bare-skins’) are responsible for demise of his family. But luckily for
Vuk, his old uncle, Karak takes him under his wing and the seasoned
elder brings Vuk up to be the most cunning and successful fox in the
forest. Famous, great hunters, better stay away, here comes Vuk!
A charming, animated tale about the friendship of a cheerful water
spider and a barn spider, his crummy neighbor living on land.
Together they meet a wide array of creatures above and under
water and face exciting adventures.
Mr. Bleating undertakes all kinds of odd jobs that he eventually fails
to do. On his house there are thirteen signs advertising thirteen jobs
he is willing to undertake. Finally, the last one, the professional tailor
seems appropriate for him.
Much loved in Hungary and known well beyond its borders, this
exquisite animated series presents an entertaining depiction of
Hungarian folk history and the unlimited resourcefulness of its
people. All the tales are set in a rich visual context, which draws
heavily on traditional elements and adds greatly to the enjoyment
of audiences of all ages.
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Music by Péter WOLF
Produced by MTV
Directed by Csaba SZOMBATI, Szabolcs SZABÓ, József HAUI
Language Hungarian
Directed by István IMRE
Written by József ROMHÁNYI
Music by György RÁNKI
Produced by MTV
Directed by Zsolt RICHLY
Written by Ákos TORDON, Zsolt RICHLY
Produced by KECSKEMÉTFILM for MTV
Language Hungarian
Language Hungarian
Language Hungarian
74
75
children animations
children animations
vuk
vuk
4x20’
Pom-pom
pom-pom
26x8’
1977-79
sergeant pityke
pityke őrmester
13x7’1981
no problem toby
sebaj tóbiás
26x7’1984
cartoon
cartoon
cartoon
plasticine
An old but extremely helpful household robot and some children
travel to strange planets where they inevitably experience some
interesting adventures.
Cute animated TV series based on the children’s books of István
Csukás. It tells the story of Pom-Pom, a hairy creature that could
be best compared to a wig, who becomes friends with a schoolgirl
named Bogyó (“Berry”). We follow her stories about other, equally
bizarre creatures and their adventures on her way to school. The
series is light-hearted and educational entertainment for children.
Pityke, a real policeman solves all kinds of problems by outwitting
cunning criminals. The series avoids violence.
Toby is a pleasant and loveable creature who always gets into some
kind of trouble. His good mood and cheerfulness, however, are
indestructible thanks to his ability to change his body shape and
adapt to new situations.
1975
TV VOD DVD
TV VOD DVD
TV VOD DVD
TV VOD DVD
Directed by János MATA, Ágnes BÁLINT
Written by György BOTOND-BOLICS
Music by Ferenc LOVAS, Zoltán PONGRÁCZ
Produced by MTV
Directed by Attila DARGAY, Ágnes BÁLINT
Produced by MTV
Directed by Zoltán MAROS
Written by István KOVÁCS, Pál PETERDI
Music by Péter WOLF
Produced by MTV
Language Hungarian
Language Hungarian
Language Hungarian
Directed by Ferenc CZAKÓ
Music by István BERGENDY
Language Hungarian
76
77
children animations
children animations
Microby
microbi
13x10’
1975
the great angler
a nagy ho-ho-horgász
26x8’1980,1986
chuck and cluck
kukori és kotkoda
26x10’
hungarian folk tales
magyar népmesék
100x7’
cartoon
cartoon
cartoon
cartoon
Tales of a bear cub, Vackor who soon realizes that going to school
is no easy job at all.
The passionate angler soaks his bait in the water every day, but he
fails to catch any fish. While fishing he has many adventures and not
only his bait, but he also makes friends with the fish.
Chuck is a cock and Cluck is a chicken living together on a farm.
They are a grumpy couple. Cluck is always complaining about Chuck
and his laziness and Chuck really hates housework and his wife’s
constant nagging. The witty portrayal of life on the poultry farm is
another Hungarian classic by Ágnes Bálint.
Much loved in Hungary and known well beyond its borders, this
exquisite animated series presents an entertaining depiction of
Hungarian folk history and the unlimited resourcefulness of its
people. All the tales are set in a rich visual context, which draws
heavily on traditional elements and adds greatly to their enjoyment
for audiences of all ages.
1970
TV VOD DVD
TV VOD DVD
TV VOD DVD
TV VOD DVD
Directed by József DEÁK
Written by András CSEH, István KORMOS
Produced by MTV
Directed by Zsuzsa FÜZESSI, Attila DARGAY
Written by István CSUKÁS, Ferenc SAJDIK
Music by Zsolt PETHŐ, 100 Folk Celsius
Produced by MTV
Language Hungarian
Directed by János MATA, Szabolcs SZABÓ
Written by Ágnes BÁLINT
Music by Ferenc LOVAS
Produced by MTV
Directed by Marcell JANKOVICS
Written by Marcell JANKOVICS
Music by KALÁKA együttes
Language Hungarian
Language Hungarian
78
Language Hungarian
79
1977-2010
children animations
children animations
vackor
vackor
11x6’
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