Pál Hetényi

L'histoire vraie de l'homme qui a fait sauter l'Orient Express.

Hédi, une dame âgée, vit de ses rentes dans un appartement spacieux avec son fils János qui ne vient la voir le plus souvent que pour lui soutirer de l’argent, et son infirmière-gouvernante-confidente, Anna. Le petit ami de celle-ci, Miklós, s’installe dans sa chambre et entreprend de devenir l’ami de la vieille dame. János amène un « locataire » à la maison, son ami Pál, professeur au chômage. Lui aussi va tenter de séduire Hédi. Dans ce huis clos empoisonné, des alliances se nouent et se dénouent. Il est bien difficile de démêler l’intérêt de l’affection véritable, car une seule chose est sûre : tout le monde semble cruellement à court d’argent, sauf Hédi.

Ce film, adapté de la pièce de Shakespeare, a été réalisé pour la télévision hongroise. On y retrouve l’acteur de L’Outsider, le violoniste András Szabó. Le film est constitué de deux plans séquence : un de 5 minutes, sorte de pré-générique, et un autre de 67 minutes. L’action principale se déroule devant nous, la caméra traquant à travers le brouillard et la lumière des flambeaux, les machinations et les mouvements des personnages.

Irén and Attila, a not-so-young couple, are in love. All they want is a flat of their own where they could live together. Unfortunately, Hungary in the 70s is no place for dreams.

In the first half of the fifties Júlia, the weaver meets engineer Szél on a visit with "educative" purpose, who raises his three children alone in a mighty villa. Júlia is willing to take care of the adolescent children and she moves in to the villa. She falls in love with the man but he is not able to express true, deep feelings.

A Budapest high school in the beginning of the 1960s. Dini suffers the torments of adolescence. His father had to leave Hungary after the uprise in 1956, and since then Dini's mother has had to take care of her two sons on her own. A friend of Dini’s father, Bodor, is released from prison and moves in with them. Dini and his brother are far from happy about this intrusion on their family life.

In the 19th century Austro-Hungarian Empire, David Hersko, a Jewish shepherd, witnesses the attack of a young girl. His home is burned down and he finds shelter with the family of a Jewish logger. The loggers find the body of a young woman which they bury, going against local laws. They are charged with her murder and it is believed that they killed her as a ritual murder.

Dans les années trente, un satyre assassine des petites filles. Un inspecteur essaie de retrouver sa trace.

Shot in B&W, Gyula Gazdag's film follows the surreal and often comic quests of young Andris, an orphan searching for a father who doesn't exist, and Orban, a government clerk who's had enough of oppressive bureaucracy.