András Jeles

Sinister Shadow (2018)

The hidden messages in a famed, mysterious painting by Hans Holbein the Younger are slowly revealed to an art restorer hired to reproduce it. ...

Hungary 2011 (2012)

Anthology film made as an act of protest against Hungarian government of Viktor Orban. ...

Why Wasn't He There? (1993)

The film is a story of parallel biographies. In 1944, three generations of a Jewish family of pharmacists live in a small Hungarian town. Eva, the 13-year-old granddaughter, keeps a diary and reads Dickens' Copperfield's David. From time to time, the hero ...

Dream Brigade (1989)

The heroes of the film are manual workers, members of a Socialist Brigade. Gyula, the brigade leader once has a dream where the gate-keeper searches through Lenin, about to leave the factory. He decides to stage Gelman's play, Premium, with his brigade, si ...

Arc és álarc - Beszélgetés Szentkuthy Miklóssal (1989)

Miklós Szentkuthy reports on his life, his works, the Holy Trinity, Karl Marx, and the time he became a cardinal. ...

A mosoly birodalma (1987)

The Annunciation (1984)

Adam and Eve, after Eden, are granted dreams of the world to come by a deceptively sweet but ultimately contemptuous Lucifer. Adam confronts an endless procession of the horror of the human story... rapists and concubines, betrayal and savagery, mindless c ...

The Tunnel (1980)

He starts going, carrying a dinner-can. His eyes are suddenly arrested by the breasts of the girl on the bicycle, riding towards him. Prompted by the strange movements of the girl as well as by seeing another girl in a wheel-chair, his imagination starts w ...

Little Valentino (1979)

The twenty-year-old young man Sz. László is a lorry guard employed by an agricultural co-operative located in the vicinity of the capital. One day he neither posts the money officially entrusted to him nor goes to work, spending time and money as he like ...

Sunday, April 12th (1974)

A regular Sunday in 1970s Budapest. ...

Félálom (1974)

In András Jeles' short film, elements of the present are mixed with the world of Honoré de Balzac's novel Lost Illusions. ...

Fehér sereg (1971)

This Is How It Will Run (1970)

Interesting crime story about woman-prisoner, incest and murder.. ...

Son of Saul (2015)

In the horror of 1944 Auschwitz, a prisoner forced to burn the corpses of his own people finds moral survival trying to save from the flames the body of a boy he takes for his son, seeking to give him a proper Jewish burial. ...

The Gentleman Takes His Leave (2010)

About that time, altogether for no definite reason, I took it into my head to cripple my life, but only in as disgusting a way as possible. ...

The History of Aviation (2009)

Normandy, 1905. The picnic is finished. A group of middle-class people in their Sunday best, get ready to go home. ...