Sándor Sára Movies

The Christmas of 1944. The Pásztor family (father, mother, four daughters and a grandchild), are spending the holidays at their country farm....

A group of plate-layers are packing the stone-bed under the rail with their pickaxes. They swing their picks in a coordinated, rhythmic way, thereby...

Hungary, end of World War II. Five Hungarian soldiers desert their troop which has been directed to Germany. They are escaping with the help of a...

An action packed, brightly colored film depicting the adventures of a six-year-old boy attending school for the first time. He befriends a little...

Sándor Sára's meditation on loneliness and the human condition.

Twenty well-known Hungarian artists - 10 right-wing (said to be) and 10 left-liberal (said to be) writers, directors, actors, musicians talk about...

The story of the film takes place in 1929 in a model prison providing a kind of reflection how society works out there. Udvardi, the weakling and...

A documentary about the Gulag

The opera-film, as opposed to Gluck's Vienna version, is a recollection of the ancient tragic Greek myth. Orpheus, who is able to defeat Hades with...

A five-episode cinema version of Chronicle(1982)

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

One of the longest films ever made

During WW II, a Hungarian child in a concentration camp is saved and raised by a Polish family. After 19 years, the young woman publishes a letter in...

This film shows the gipsies' life in Hungary, the prejudices they are faced with when adapting themselves to society and the gipsies' ancient customs...

A flower condemned to perish fights for its survival.

Documentary mini-series.

The loving couple of this grotesque parable parody of the Kádár-regime, Mária and István row to an uninhabited, idyllic...