János Tóth

Márió, a varázsló (2008)

An Italian businessman, Mario comes to the country and opens his shoe company in a small village. A middle-aged female worker falls in love with Mario, but she is not the only one whose life will be changed. ...

Visions of Europe (2004)

Twenty-five films from twenty-five European countries by twenty-five European directors. ...

Eternal Movie (1982)

This audio-visual universe peppered with Laozi quotations and made in Balázs Béla Studio represents the culmination of artistic self-expression of János Tóth. It is a self-selected auteur anthology of four of his experimental films. ...

Shine (1980)

Ragyogás is a polyphonic series of studies on film and light; it creates and reshapes cinema's mythical world and language. ...

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. ...

Scenes with Beans (1976)

Watching from the stars, an all-seeing creature observes a society of sentient beans — the joys, triumphs, and tragedies of day-to-day life on their planet — until the busy inhabitants finally notice the watcher's leering gaze. ...

Motion Picture (1976)

Effects of refractional experiments put in the language of the film. ...

Cat's Play (1974)

Karoly Makk's heartbreaking story of two unmarried sisters who cast wistful glances back at their lives, but still believe in hope and love, earned an Academy Award Nomination for Best Foreign Language Film in 1974. In this follow-up to the director's inte ...

Study I. (1974)

The candle as light, photography using light, refraction, motion picture, that is, the film poem-like recollection of the magical world of cinematography. ...

Poetry (1972)

Poézis is, via the sculptures of a simple woodcarver, a cultural imprint of the life of the peasantry. ...

Sinbad (1971)

Based on the stories of Hungarian writer Gyula Krúdy, this film is a lush and sensuous depiction of the life, loves and memories of serial seducer Szindbád. As the protagonist looks back on his life, past and present, imagination and reality flow insepar ...

Love (1971)

Luca, who regularly visits her bedridden mother-in-law, hides from her the fact that János, his son, has been arrested on a trumped up political charge. ...

Capriccio (1970)

Shreds and fragments of film poetry that make its own place on the edge of a document film. The film is a college of dialogue between nature, abandoned country, and human fancy. ...

Arena (1970)

Aréna is nothing less than an attempt at spatial-temporal filming. It is an associative, avant-garde universe, the entire universe of the world, culture, edited into images of the masses participating in a match and then dispersing, in one- to four-frame ...

Caleidoscope from Baja (1968)

Locations of László Ranódy's film Pacsirta (Skylark) appear in the experimental etude, in János Tóth's extreme, distorted, wide-angle footage, image associations. ...

Elegy (1966)

Often called a "film poem" or a "film symphonie" Huszárik's masterpiece consists of montages of horses from the dawn of time to the modern times from cave paintings to horse races. ...

Apple Thieves (1966)

Two thieving gloves try to snatch an apple. ...

Testamentum (1966)

Religion, ruins. Hungary. ...

János Háry (1965)

The triumphant adventures of the Hungarian baron Münchausen are recounted in the form of a musical. ...

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. ...

Still Life (1963)

Tuesday (1963)

The Giant (1960)

Red Ink (1960)

Most of her colleagues take Mária, the new teacher to be a communist party-worker, only Irma and the drawing teacher Zoli treat her kindly. Mária starts working with great enthusiasm, and her class learns to love her in a short time. ...

Calvary (1960)

Following his wedding, Feri left the co-operative and is now working on the land of his father-in-law. Tóth is extremely wilful and thrifty, working from early morning to late night, pushing his family as well. ...

Szombattól hétföig (1959)

About the life of young people in Hungary in the late 50s, their joys, hopes and dreams. When Joly entered the factory, she wanted to be as cheerful and carefree as the other girls, and she didn't tell anyone that she had a son. And now, when the wedding d ...

Buddies - In the wind of reeds (1958)

The film recounts the adventures of three lovable animals, a Viszla, a Dachshund and a northern goshawk. The animals are accidentally taken to the shores of Lake Kis-Balaton, where many surprises and adventures await them. Created in 1958, it is a classic ...

A kinematográfus (2022)

In memory of Janos Toth. The ciematographer on title is no other than János Tóth, who is still the role model and reference point for all Hungarian cinematographers. He has proven his unique talent in all cinematographic genres. In his unmissable feature ...