József Lörincz

Orpheus and Eurydice (1986)

The opera-film, as opposed to Gluck's Vienna version, is a recollection of the ancient tragic Greek myth. Orpheus, who is able to defeat Hades with the power of art, is unable to conquer his own human defects. Amor is sympathetic to Orpheus' sufferings as ...

Potteries (1981)

Andras (Zygmunt Malanowicz), an older man employed as a furniture designer, gets a life-jarring shock when he returns from a trip and finds that some of the work he developed has been given over to a younger employee. This instigates a mid-life crisis over ...

We're Getting Along (1981)

More than a storyline with a beginning, middle, and end, this tale of a foundry worker who engages a woman -- and fellow worker -- to do housekeeping for him is a tale that holds up the Hungarian social system against the morality of an exploitative male-f ...

Rumbling Silence (1978)

An oil driller falls for the lonely farm wife of a man working in Budapest. ...

City Map (1977)

Through the personal memories of István Szabó we can became the observers of the life of Budapest. ...

Identification (1975)

While awaiting his release from the Soviet detention camp he is being held in, a half-starved refugee (Andras Ambrus) finds that an error has been made and his name is not on the to-be-released list. It is then that he is forced to assume the identity of a ...

Assume Yourself (1975)

A story about the Hungarian pioneers summer vacations. ...

A Dream of a House (1972)

A short film directed by István Szabó. ...

To See Naples and... (1972)

Szegedi Anna, a lawyer having just arrived back from Naples wants to divorce his husband, also a lawyer, because since a hot night she has only been thinking of Laczkó, the handsome businessman. ...

Budapest, amiért szeretem (1971)

István Szabó reveals a lesser-known side to the public in this work, which strings together eight shorts of Budapest into a single movie. In the piece interpretable as a declaration of love addressed to the capital there are numerous motifs that are also ...

Lovefilm (1970)

A story of two young people in Hungary, Jancsi and Kata. First they are good friends, later lovers. Soon after the 1956 Revolution Kata leaves Hungary, Jancsi stays there. After 10 years Jancsi is allowed to visit Kata in France, their love is reborn, but ...

Charmers (1970)

This light comedy with grotesque elements tells the story of M, the young and beautiful model mother, who seeks happiness and a father for her precocious, but inventive daughter, Tündike. ...

Féltve őrzött kincsünk, a magyar gímszarvas (2020)