Imre Gyöngyössy

Európa messze van (1995)

The story starts in Romania in the last years of the Ceaucescu regime. The main character of the film is Petru, a ten-year-old Romanian boy. His world is one of action and dreams but, at the same time, presents an authentic vista of contemporary Central Eu ...

Death in Shallow Water (1994)

1991, farewell in Budapest. Mária remembers the past in tears. Her husband, Tibor, a chemist and a target of the KGB, left their apartment one evening to fetch some cigarettes only to be found drowned in the shallow Lake Balaton the following day. Their s ...

Yerma (1984)

Inspired by García Lorca's stage poem, this is the story of a young woman who cannot realize her desire for self-realization either in the confines of her Andalusian village or in her relationship with her traditional husband. ...

The Revolt of Job (1983)

The story of a childless Jewish couple in WWII-era Hungary who adopt a Hungarian boy and raise him with their values and traditions. ...

A Quite Ordinary Life (1978)

A documentary about elderly aunt Veronica who wants to accomplish two things in her life: re-cultivate a long-neglected vineyard and visit her son abroad ...

Legenda a nyúlpaprikásról (1975)

Gazsi, the protagonist of the novel, comes from the very edge of the society of the small village; he is an unliveable, helpless, simple-minded person. The only thing he dreams of is a rabbit paprika. However, when the dream could come true, as he takes pa ...

Sons of Fire (1973)

This poetic film presents the ballad of the boys who turned into stags, by the associative means of music, painting and folk art. At the same time it is a memorial to the martyrs of the 1944 Sátoraljaújhely prison revolt and shows its butchery reflected ...

The Legend About the Death and Resurrection of Two Young Men (1972)

Gera, a successful Romani painter rejects his token status by dramatically burning his own artwork. He returns to his marginalized community intending to implement social reforms and improve their lives. However, his modern ideas are rejected and misunders ...

Adrift (1971)

A fisherman saves Anada, a woman adrift, from drowning. He takes her to his home, and protects her. Eventually, she occupies a larger place than was to be expected. He commits adultery with her, but his own wife seems to be in love with the strange young w ...

Palm Sunday (1969)

Epic recalling the early days of the Republic of the councils. ...

Ten Thousand Days (1967)

The changing and turbulent history of Hungary is seen through the eyes of three men over a 30-year period in this somber drama. The three recall the highlights of their lives in flashbacks as they reminisce in the mid 1960s. The venerable trio begin their ...

Green Years (1965)

A country boy comes to Budapest to study and tries desperately to retain his integrity amid the corruption of the capital. ...

Until the Day is Breaking (1962)

Mihály Zágon has been struggling with his conservative mother-in-law for a long time. Now, that his wife is pregnant, the old woman wants Piroska to stay in bed. Mihály is elected to be the president of the co-operative, but nobody is happy about this b ...

1956 november (1959)

Cinématon XVIII (1982)

Reel 18 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series. ...

Cinématon (1978)

Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011. Composed over 36 years from 1978 until 2006, it consists of a series of over 2,821 silent vignettes (cinématons), each 3 ...