Ila Schütz

Golden Jubilee (2002)

A farce written by the king of pulp fictioni in Hungary Rejtő Jenő ...

A Kind of America (2002)

Tamás is a young, Budapest-based director of video clips and commercials who dreams of directing his... ...

Sunshine (1999)

The fate of a Hungarian Jewish family throughout the 20th century. ...

Emberrabló lányok (1990)

Popcorn und Paprika (1984)

The German national swimming team travels to Budapest for a competition. However, the teenagers are more interested in flirting with each other than training. Their coach is less than thrilled with his team's behavior. ...

Legyél te is Bonca! (1984)

Our old friends Bence the Great Hunter, Andris, aka Mr. Doolittle, the Painter and then Bonca the Bird appear in this film. But then Nora appears and everything goes haywire. The film follows Nora and her mum as they become "Bonca". ...

Marriage with Days off (1984)

Mici, a pretty young girl is a selected swimmer. Laci, her trainer looks after her jealously, mainly because of her condition. ...

Vőlegény (1981)

Adáshiba (1979)

Károly Szakonyi's great play, The Transmission Error, could be set today. The story is about the Bódog family, where the main role is played by watching television, while the family members' attention to each other becomes superficial, their togetherness ...

A Bright Star at the Stake (1979)

This film takes place in Paris and Geneva in the 1530s and 1550s. Kálvin János and Szervét Mihály are school mates in Paris. The university students celebrate the victory of the Reformation with Kálvin's "Institution", written under a pseudonym. ...

Peter and Paul (1978)

The subject-matter of this comedy is age-old: that of the schizophrenic soul. Papa would have liked boy twins years ago, but her wife gave birth to a single child weighing six kilograms. He would like to dampen his feeling of emptiness by having the boy re ...

The Pendragon Legend (1974)

Bátky János a 20th century intellectual studies the secret of the Rosicrucians in London libraries during the day and in the evening takes pleasure in the "decent" everyday joys offered by the fair sex. He gets involved in the wildest ghost-story in the ...

A palacsintás király (1973)

King Tobiah, the ruler of the country of Dinom-danom, announces a pancake-making competition for the girls of the area. He is supposed to give his son to the one who makes the best pancakes. As it is in fairy tales: the enterprising girls all fail. Not so ...

Junior Jr. Comes (1972)

Öcsi is going to have a little brother. The little child is sulking, he is deeply hurt because he learns the great secret not from his parents but his best friend, Évike. ...

Kidnapping - Hungarian Style (1972)

Three people skilfully kidnap the company director, who never takes the responsibility, takes sleeping pills and spends his time feeding ornamental fish. The kidnappers turn out to be no other than the Engineer, the Technician and the Worker, who only want ...

Vidám elefántkór (1971)

Birdies (1971)

The heroines of this lyric comedy full of burlesque elements are two girls from a village who get totally engrossed in their day-dreaming. Ida and Rozi escape to the city to catch husbands for themselves. ...

Szerelem a ládában (1971)

This children's story for adults is set in the courtyard of a large tenement building. The protagonists are a little girl and a little boy. Their adventures, laced with lyricism and humour, hold up a mirror to the adult world. ...

Rabbits in the Cloak-Room (1971)

The bitter film grotesque focuses on a Socialist Mafioso. Vágó, the enthusiastic young propagandist is put up at Apuka (Daddy) of the outskirts, Dávid. In the hands of Apuka everything becomes money and he skilfully avoids inspection and controls. In or ...

Sarah, My Dear (1971)

After his divorce, Bóna Péter, a beginner film director needs a bigger amount of money to settle his financial problems with his ex-wife. He travels to Pécs to see Sárika, an old veteran. He has not seen his aunt for a long time, and she receives him v ...

Don’t Cry, Pretty Girls! (1970)

Savanyú and his friend work at a plant. After the monotonous shifts they engage in the pleasures of the afternoon and the night, i.e. parties and concerts. Savanyú dates Juli, they are already engaged. The young men live as sub-tenants, the young women i ...

Krebsz, the God (1970)

The protagonist of this farce is the enthusiastic, bald, spectacled Krebsz, an employee at the Prime and Sample Institute. He alerts the whole village to organise a beauty contest in the weed-field of Balatonszutykos. Hoping to win the grand prize, the lea ...

Pesti erkölcsök (1970)

Ferenc Molnár's cartoons, published in various newspapers in the 1920s and 1930s, were not originally intended for performance. The producers of the show brought them to life with great authorial ideas and sparkling dialogues. Some of the scenes, which to ...

Do You Know Sunday-Monday? (1969)

Juli is a 17-year-old student who takes a summer job in a local chemical factory. She is befriended by Piri, a girl with an unsavory reputation who has worked there before. The two friends are ogled by male workers who have overactive libidos and imaginati ...

On Home Grounds (1969)

This ironic comedy is set in the god-forsaken Kiskúnbékás, at the end of the fifties. ...

Silence and Cry (1968)

Set during a turbulent era of disquiet, fear, persecution and terror, which permeates every corner of post-WWI Hungarian society. In 1919, after just a few months of communist rule the Hungarian Republic of Councils falls victim to a nationalist counter-re ...