Emese Vasvári

The Hungarian Dressmaker (2024)

Ema & Death's-Head deals with the precarious border between humanism and the protection of one's own life in situations when one excludes the other. Marika Sándorfi is hiding a Jewish boy during the dramatic era of the First Slovak State on the Slovak-Hun ...

Zanox (2022)

As a result of a medical drug experiment, Misi will be able to travel through time, but only if he drinks from a special homemade spirit. ...

Most of the Souls That Live Here (2016)

The renowned anarchist teacher Count Ervin Batthyány reappears 100 years after his death. He tries to put his theories into practice again, as he realises that the world has not turned out as he had expected. He founds a new free school with the help of s ...

Remény (2015)

Premier (2006)

A new National Theatre is built, and the director hires a famous Danish director for the premiere performance. The actors rehearse, the tractor and the construction workers work on the almost finished building. Everything seems to be on track, including th ...

The Battle of Mohács (2004)

By the notes of Fiáth Pompeiusz, the one-time friend of Kapa and Pepe, Professor Szirtes has solved the secret of the time machine, and he realizes the invention relying on "special" H2O. Kapa and Pepe shall return by it into the past in order to set time ...

A Long Weekend in Pest and Buda (2003)

Iván is living in exile from Hungary when he receives word that an old flame is ill. His return to Budapest rekindles old memories and reopens old wounds. ...

Wake Up, Mate, Don't You Sleep (2003)

This time, Kapa and Pepe are first of all prisoners of war – and convicts taken to forced labor service, Jews, Hungarian soldiers, German soldiers. Once they are to be executed, then again they are to perform executions. The film tells in spectacular epi ...

Last Supper at the Arabian Gray Horse (2001)

Waiters' competition at Heroes' Square in the late thirties. Dressed as waiters, Kapa and Pepe awake in the bronze chariot of the millennial sculpture group. They drive along the Danube promenade, and on the concrete reinforcement of the demolished Budapes ...

Damn You! the Mosquitoes (2000)

Kapa, Pepe and Mesi would like to buy a scrapyard of trains, to start a nostalgia train and earn a lot of money. The capital to start with they want to get from grandpa, who has come home from America with a suitcase full of money. Everybody wants Mesi to ...

The Lord's Lantern in Budapest (1999)

In the Kerepesi Street cemetery, three grave diggers contemplate the fate of the world, then they step out of this role and in a sequence of episodes they play the typical figures of contemporary Hungarian reality, the fat cat, the swashbuckler, the victim ...