Artúr Somlay

Me and My Grandpa (1954)

A few days from a daily life of a regular school in Hungary during fifties. ...

Nyugati övezet (1952)

Prof. Laurent Akush from the Institute of Geophysics is working on a device that can be used to locate coal underground. For successful work he needs a tube XCX13, it is available in the West, but foreign firms sabotage the supply of the device. In his ins ...

A Strange Marriage (1951)

Count János Buttler rushes home to his parents and his beloved for the school holidays. On the way, they stop at Baron Dőry's house, where János is deviously trapped. In the presence of false witnesses, he is forcibly married to Baron Dőry's pregnant d ...

Goose Boy (1950)

A young peasant boy stands up to tyranny, aided by his trusting friend- a goose. ...

It Happened in Europe (1947)

1944. A band of runaways and orphans of the war scour the countryside in search of food and shelter. They invade and then taken in by a musician and former concert pianist who's hiding out in a ruined castle. After the initial altercation between them the ...

Hazugság nélkül (1946)

Two Times Two (1944)

The film is the simultaneous portrayal of the wedding ceremony and honeymoon of a city and a country couple. ...

Madách (1944)

Féltékenység (1943)

The Golden Peacock (1943)

Bálint Zeke, the honest old miller of the village, leaves his water-mill to Anna, his only daughter, while the will also provides for the mill to be managed by Forintos Mátyás, a young miller, whom he has been raising since he was very young and treats ...

Szováthy Éva (1943)

The Challenge (1942)

The successful factory owner Sasho Kamenov marries Maria. Sasho wants to surprise Maria with a villa on the seaside. He commissions the project to architect Karshev who begins to court Maria. Kamenov sends his wife to the seaside. There Maria meets Karshev ...

Keresztúton (1942)

Sentenced to Life (1941)

In an outbreak of a rightful anger, Péter Keresztessy kills Ágota, his deceased wife's cousin, who, in an attempt to become her successor, speaks ill of her thus trying to malign her character. Péter is prepared for capital punishment but is sentenced ...

At Last (1941)

Julia, a spoiled mistress always looks for trouble After running away from her own engagement, she must stay at the shelter of an engineer in the woods. ...

A kegyelmes úr rokona (1941)

Gábor Szávay works as a clerk at General Electricity Ltd, despite having a degree in engineering and having written a book on the future of electricity. He could apply for a grant to improve his financial situation, but he doesn't because he is a namesak ...

Europe Does Not Answer (1941)

On 26th of August 1939 the Ocania1 steamboat leaves the New York harbour with the ex-spy Maria Holm on board. Now she is the owner of a dressmaker's showroom, but for just one last time is taking important documents to Europe for the sake of peace. ...

A Woman Looks Back (1941)

Tamás Szánthó is conducting a concert, while his young wife and her secret lover play in the same theatre in the Tragedy of Man ...

Lelki klinika (1941)

Queen Elizabeth (1940)

Emperor Franz Joseph's young wife, Queen Elizabeth, was a popular favourite. After the defeat of the War of Independence, the daughter of the revolutionary General Latkóczy came to her to ask for the Queen's intercession on behalf of her father. Little do ...

Closed Court (1940)

dr. Benedek Gábor, a famous solicitor in Eger, is the defense counsel of a murderer, who killed his wife out of jealousy. Gábor lives in a happy marriage with Anna. One day, however, Szentgyörgyi Péter, a famous pianist, comes to Eger. He once was love ...

Fűszer és csemege (1940)

Semmelweis (1940)

Ignác Semmelweis is 18 and is in Vienna, training to become a judge-advocate, to comply with the wishes of his family. He is, however, attracted by the medical science, and joins the team of Professor Rokitanszky. ...

Deadly Spring (1939)

The subject of this film is Dr. Ivan Egry, a young man, who becomes infatuated with Edit Ralben, the beautiful, but flirtatious, daughter of a prominent man. As the two get involved romantically, problems start to plague their relationship. When they end ...

Rozmaring (1938)

A falu rossza (1938)

Die Julika (1936)

1936 Austrian film. ...

The New Landlord (1935)

Az Uj Foldesur (The New Squire) was based on a novel by popular Hungarian author Maurice Jokal, whose many works had previously been largely ignored. After the wars of 1848, a retired Austrian army officer "returns to the soil" as a gentleman farmer in Hun ...

Budapest Pastry Shop (1935)

Ilonka, daughter of a former landowner, is a shop-assistant in her father's small pastry shop in Buda. In order to get a job for her fiancé, who is a young doctor, she befriends János, a painter and owner of the house. ...