Balazs Bela Studio Movies

A family slowly disintegrates under various pressures in late 1970s communist Hungary.

The documentary was shot in the prison for juvenile delinquents in Hungary. It does not aim at judging whether the perpetrators were convicted...

In the final days of the American Civil War, an emigre Hungarian military officer attempts to map the situation of the enemy. Many veterans of the...

Eighteen years after the failure of the revolution and freedom fighting 1848-49, the politicians of Hungary preparing for a compromise with Austria...

Using verite conventions, a young couple with a baby and a child are worn away by the monotony of their lives.

Huszárik's graduation film was another short entitled Groteszk (Grotesque) in 1963 about a strange train voyage of an artist carrying his own...

A Hungarian animation made in 1972 by Háy Ágnes

A twenty-year-old young man believes that sport and philosophical books help him to be strong enough to meet life, but his determination and will...

A man becomes acquainted with the mystery of female hands during a trip.

A man, a woman, an afternoon, a city, and an unspoken, hopeful desire to find love by way of the personal ads. A milestone of Hungarian cinema, Elek...

Three people live together without having anything to do with each other. The macho father used to have a shooting gallery which he had to sell. Yet...

Often called a “film poem” or a “film symphonie” Huszárik’s masterpiece consists of montages of horses from the...

Following Antal Végh's sociography the members of amateur film studio Cinema 64 recorded a 90 min 8mm film in the village of Penészlek...

Ostensibly a non-narrative study of various aspects of a rural winter, this short film by one of modern Hungarian cinema’s greatest visual...

A Hungarian Jew is forced to give a false testimony on his relatives in WW2 Hungary.

Lajos Mezei is a middle-aged, insignificant, average man. He works at the post office sorting letters with a machine. His life is but a series...

A film study in which the symbol of flight which contradicts human limitations inspires an emotional rhythm of scenes varying along three lines: the...