Gyula Benkő

The Wondrous Voyage of Kornel Esti (1995)

Middle-aged writer (Kornél Esti) travels to Germany to deliver a lecture. During the long journey he recalls the memories of an other journey he made thirty years ago. ...

Hungarian Requiem (1990)

1958. In the cell of the condemned, seven men await the signs of an approaching execution. All of them recall their pasts and envision their wish-dreams. ...

Édes Anna (1989)

Sweet Anna is sent as a maid to the Vizys immediately after the fall of the revolution in 1919. Since the death of her daughter, Mrs. Vizyné has devoted all her emotions and energy to the "education" of the servants. Anna is sometimes pampered, sometimes ...

Tizenötezer pengő jutalom (1986)

Az aranyifjú (1986)

The penniless but handsome Count Zalavári chooses a rich girl from the countryside for her money. They don't get to marry because the butler catches him with the maid. He meets an American millionairess who gives him expensive jewelry as a gift. She is ki ...

My First Two Hundred Years (1985)

Divided into two different halves separated by mood and subject matter, this is an uneven drama about the experience of one Hungarian Jew before and during the fascist takeover of Budapest. The hero Pali (Zoltan Bezeredi) arrives back in Budapest from the ...

II. József császár (1982)

A Hungarian film about Emperor Joseph II ...

Lala the Magician (1981)

A story about Lala, an eight years old magician. ...

The Nameless Castle (1981)

The romantic story takes place in the time of Napoleon in Hungary, near Fertő-lake. Count Vavel hides here the French heiress from the revolution and Napoleon. ...

Bálint Fábián Meets God (1980)

1918. Fábián Bálint is forced to kill humans on the Italian front. At home his sons drown the priest, the lover of their mother, in the river Kraszna. Mrs. Fábián turns insane. Following his arrival home Bálint becomes the liveried coachman of the ba ...

On the Move (1979)

Barbara is a forty-year-old woman of Polish origin living in Budapest. She is a biologist, a wife and a mother. The death of her woman friend opens her eyes to the fact that she is lonely, unable to find her place. ...

The Centaurs (1979)

A political conspiracy is brewing in an unnamed Latin American country. Everything is in play: blackmail, bribery, political assassinations, newspaper slander. The operation, code-named "Centaur", is conceived in Washington. ...

A Very Moral Night (1977)

A brothel in a small Hungarian town becomes the home of a medical student after his favorite working girls find out he's out of rent money. Trouble brews as they learn his mother is coming for a visit and they must transform the house. ...

Pheasant Tomorrow (1974)

The loving couple of this grotesque parable parody of the Kádár-regime, Mária and István row to an uninhabited, idyllic island. Soon crazy tent-pitchers swarm to the island, led by an official representative of the regime. ...

Innocent Assassins (1973)

Two arts students, András and Viktor who are writing their thesis on detective stories, make up a story and keep nagging the famous film-director, who just came back from Hollywood, until he undertakes the job. At night they work on the film, in which two ...

Face to Face (1970)

The members of a rifle-corps unit gather in a village by the western border ...

The Aga's Testament (1967)

In 1585 the Turks and Vallons are looting the Látrány region. ...

The Widow and the Police Officer (1967)

Mrs. Holló reports the case of three missing persons to the police. During the investigations, the captain realises that there is nothing to deter Mrs. Holló from her trying to overcome loneliness. ...

Late Season (1967)

Kerekes believes he is wanted by the police when his friends play a practical joke in this unusual comedy drama. He returns to his hometown where he was accused of turning a Jewish druggist and the druggist's wife over to the Nazis. With his friends follow ...

A Hungarian Nabob 2: Karpathy Zoltan (1966)

On the novel by Mór Jókai. The first half of the XVIII century. Several decades of life of a noble family Karpati. ...

Közbejött apróság (1966)

Cold Days (1966)

Andras Kovacs' film, considered one of the most important Hungarian films of the 1960s, centers around four men who await trial for their involvement in the massacre of several thousand Jewish and Serbian people of Novi Sad in 1942. Each denies any respons ...

Én, Strasznov Ignác, a szélhámos (1966)

A Hungarian Nabob (1966)

On the novel by Mór Jókai. The first half of the XVIII century. Several decades of life of a noble family Karpati. ...

Abhorrence (1965)

Nelli, the icy, introverted farm girl, needs to find a husband following her father's death. She accepts the attentions of the noisy Takaró Sanyi, although she is more attracted to his silent and modest younger brother. ...

Forbidden Marriage (1964)

Lilian, daughter of an English millionaire threatens her father that she will marry the first shady character turning up around her and will sing in bars just because her father wants her to marry someone whom she does not love. ...

Darkness in Daytime (1963)

In 1963 in Tihany, somebody addresses the writer Gábor Náday. He is reminded of a night drive in 1944 that saved his life. Painful memories start coming to Náday. ...

Haber's Photo Shop (1963)

A priest who has been set free from prison recently joins a spy organization. ...

Golden Age (1963)

The different, and equally acceptable, according to circumstances, way of life of five people. ...

Just a Joke (1961)

The grey hero of grey workdays, the divorced cashier of a cinema who is always willing to sacrifice herself for others, Etelka, is awarded a two-week-holiday at Lake Balaton. Following the advice of her female friend, she tries to live life at full speed. ...

Two Half-Times in Hell (1961)

To celebrate Hitler's birthday, a soccer match is organised between the Germans and a group of Hungarian political prisoners, one of whom is a famous pre-war football star. ...

Guns and Doves (1961)

1920 in a mining town in the country-side. The team of children led by Ferkó Boda fish guns and a flag of Red soldiers out of the local lake. ...

Don't Keep Off the Grass (1960)

Daddy Kárász, the stakhanovist worker, complains in a television interview about the fact that his family, consisting of many members, cannot get a home on their own. Kéri, the chairman of the local authority, promises to help him on the condition that ...

Virrad (1960)

A sequel to "Yesterday". About the defeat of the Hungarian uprising of 1956. The action takes place in the barracks of the People's Army, in the War Ministry and in one of the largest factories in Budapest. ...

Fatia Negra (1959)

The old, sickly Demeter Lapussa is a tyrant in the family. He forces his granddaughter, the beautiful Henriette, to marry baron Hátszegi, although the girl loves the penniless Vámhidy Szilárd. The two lovers attempt to commit suicide, then are torn away ...

The Brigade No. 39 (1959)

The spring of 1919. Karikás Frigyes reorganises brigade 39 at the Tisza. His most devoted soldiers are Korbély János and his followers, who remain faithful to the political commissioner under all circumstances. ...

Two Confessions (1957)

This easy-to-take Hungarian drama is also known as Two Wishes. The prinicipal characters are a pair of juvenile delinquents, who may still be redeemable. The sullen duo is befriended by a kindly police inspector, who takes it upon himself to straighten out ...

The bridge of life (1956)

The war is over, but the Bodog family is starving. Varg's neighbor takes Mihai Bodog with him to do restoration work. They are well paid for this work and Mihai can finally please his wife Erji and their young son. When the workers are later hired to build ...

Keep Your Chin Up! (1954)

On the Spring of 1945 the Jackson circus is heading towards the border with the clown Peti and Aida, the elephant. They have to play for the Hungarian Fascists, while Peti is hiding the Jew Annuska and Sanyika. ...

The Day of Wrath (1953)

In May 1919 in a small rural town beside Salgótarján the local high society wants to get the power back with the leadership of dr. Máriáss, exploiting the outside attack launched against the Republic of Councils. ...

The Sea has Risen (1953)

March 15, 1848; the revolution breaks out in the town of Pest. Yet at café Pilvax, in among he revolutionary youth, there is the informer of the imperial court as well. Hearing the news of the attack led by Jellasics, the inhabitants of the villages pour ...

Young at Heart (1953)

In the vocational school the professionally excellent Dani János works on his own invention in his leisure time, but he does not like learning. However, even his own father learns in the evenings, he will become a teacher. ...

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 ...

Underground Colony (1951)

In 1948, when Hungarian industry counts on almost every liter of fuel, the production of Makert, an American oil company in Hungary, is declining by the day. The firm's American owners claim that the oil field is depleted. However, the new government contr ...

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 ...

Gala-Suit (1949)

The only jacket owned by Rédey Lajos, a university student majoring in Italian language and literature, is pawned by his room-mate. The bracelet of Kitty, the daughter of general Gohrmann, which in the middle of a kiss during a lesson in Italian got accid ...

Hot Fields (1948)

Avary, himself a hustler, is jealous of his beautiful wife. He eavesdrops to catch Vilma, his wife, having supper with a neighbour on the terrace of their manor-house. He is about to shoot at the woman, but it is him who gets shot to death. ...

The Prophet of the Fields (1947)

After the war, Gábor Erőss, released from its captivity, returns home. Abandoned by his love, he finds his house ruined. Nikita, his neighbour, and the roaming Levite come to his assistance by offering him both their friendship and a draught animal. ...

Egy fiúnak a fele (1946)

A landowner Gáthy and his wife adopt an orphaned infant at the birth of their own son, only to realize too late that they can't tell which baby is which. They raise both boys as their own until, on the brink of the sons' marriages, questions of lineage br ...

Club Seven (1944)

In a small town in the countryside, the election of the president of the restaurant trade association is under way. The two rivals, Dénes Kövi, owner of the elegant Korona restaurant, and Antal Bálint, owner of the staid Makkhetes restaurant, are puttin ...

Ördöglovas (1944)

Kerek Ferkó (1943)

After a heart attack, landowner Ferdinand Kerekházy summons his son Ferko Kerekházy from abroad, who, to his conservative father's dismay, sends a wagonload of machines ahead to set up an irrigation system and turn the saline, barely productive fields in ...

Spring Sonata (1942)

One Fool Makes a Hundred (1942)

Dömötör, a headwaiter, and Rudi, his friend, a conductor, are dismissed. Later, they return as guests. Dömötör is seen sporting a false beard, now the spitting image of count Rod-Igor Su-Arezew, the world-famous lion-hunter. ...

Családunk szégyene (1942)

Egér a palotában (1942)

Cigarette Smoke (1941)

Modern and exciting short from a series of Hungarian noir films. Rácz Vali, playing the protagonist, was famous and beloved for her propensity to sing sad songs and recite lyrical poetry. She also played in movies, but only before 1945, as the cultural an ...

Doctor István Kovács (1941)

When his new wife from a peasant background is not accepted by his colleagues, a University Professor resigns his post and returns home to his rural village. After receiving popular support, he is returned to his position by the Minister of Education. ...

Kadétszerelem (1941)

Lelki klinika (1941)

Miért? (1941)

Crow On the Tower (1938)

Lenke, a schoolgirl in Budapest, is in love with László, a middle-aged widower, owner of the estate in the neighbourhood of her own country home. She secretly follows him in Budapest, and they finally meet. ...