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Gyula Hernádi
Writer

Gyula Hernádi

Filmography

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15 titles
Szörnyek évadja

Szörnyek évadja

Miklós Jancsó 1987 1h 29m

Monsters season - a teacher celebrates his 60th birthday at a rural summer house. Existentialism and philosophy is discussed among professors and students. A scary mystery play opens.

A zsarnok szíve, avagy Boccaccio Magyarországon

A zsarnok szíve, avagy Boccaccio Magyarországon

Miklós Jancsó 1977 1h 27m

A historical drama set in the 1400s, a young man sent to Italy but is forced back after his father's mysterious death.

Kilenc hónap

Kilenc hónap

Márta Mészáros 1976 1h 34m 7.0

Village-girl (Juli Kovács) arrives in the city to work in a factory. The works manager (János Bodnár) sets his eye on her, but at first the girl refuses his advance.

Örökbefogadás

Örökbefogadás

Márta Mészáros 1975 1h 28m

A lonely middle-aged woman wants to give birth to a child, but her acquaintance with dysfunctional teenagers leads her to the idea of adoption.

Szerelmem, Elektra

Szerelmem, Elektra

Miklós Jancsó 1974 1h 14m 7.0

It has been fifteen years since the death of her father, Agamemnon, and Elektra still burns with hatred for Aegisztosz, who conspired with Elektra's mother to kill him.

Még kér a nép

Még kér a nép

Miklós Jancsó 1972 1h 26m 4.0

Loosely based on events from Hungarian history, the story evolves around a small peasants' revolt in 1890.

La tecnica e il rito

La tecnica e il rito

Miklós Jancsó 1972 1h 32m

The narrative concerns the barbaric exploits of Attila The Hun and yet none of the characters ever leave the remote seaside stretch of land on which the film is set or do much of anything – with the ensuing moralizing interrupted only by the occasional (and equally obscure) music-infused rites.

Égi bárány

Égi bárány

Miklós Jancsó 1971 1h 24m

Allegory of the suppression of the 1919 revolution and the advent of fascism in Hungary; in the countryside, a unit of the revolutionary army spares the life of father Vargha, a fanatical priest. He comes back and leads massacres.

Sirokkó

Sirokkó

Miklós Jancsó 1969 1h 15m

In the mid-1930s a group of Croatian anarchists cross the dense forests at the northern border of Yugoslavia in an effort to seek refuge in Hungary.

Fényes szelek

Fényes szelek

Miklós Jancsó 1969 1h 22m

It is 1947; the Communist Party has just taken power in Hungary. In Jancsó's first color film, young students at a People's College have a debate with seminary students, but worry it will escalate into a fight.

Csend és kiáltás

Csend és kiáltás

Miklós Jancsó 1968 1h 12m 9.0

Set during a turbulent era of disquiet, fear, persecution and terror, which permeates every corner of post-WWI Hungarian society. In 1919, after just a few months of communist rule the Hungarian Republic of Councils falls victim to a nationalist counter-revolution.

Csillagosok, katonák

Csillagosok, katonák

Miklós Jancsó 1967 1h 30m 8.7

In 1919, Hungarian Communists aid the Bolsheviks' defeat of Czarists, the Whites. Near the Volga, a monastery and a field hospital are held by one side and then the other.

Szegénylegények

Szegénylegények

Miklós Jancsó 1966 1h 31m 8.0

Set in a detention camp in Hungary in 1869 at a time of guerilla campaigns against the ruling Austrians.

Így jöttem

Így jöttem

Miklós Jancsó 1965 1h 39m

In the final days of World War II, a young Hungarian is making his way home, through countryside full of the debris of war, when he is captures and imprisoned by Russians. Left in the custody of a young Russian soldier, the two youths form a friendship in spite of not speaking each other's language.

Oldás és kötés

Oldás és kötés

Miklós Jancsó 1963 1h 34m

A young doctor undergoes a spiritual crisis when he returns to his rural home.

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