Lajos Gárday

I'll Appeal to the Minister (1962)

A comedy about the organisation of agricultural co-operatives. In the village of "Rendes", everybody has already entered the co-op, only the stubborn farmer, Bódog Balogh continues to resist. The leadership plays all their tricks and uses all their effor ...

The Land of Angels (1962)

The film is a ballad about the dwellers of a block-of-flats in Angyalföld. ...

On the Roofs of Budapest (1961)

Gráci has been recently released from a reformatory school. His old gang would like to involve him in a new action, but he hesitates. His past record is bad enough already, and he would not like to get into new trouble. ...

Summer Rain (1961)

Miskei, the popular and dynamic president of a co-op falls in love with Mari, the attractive wife of the elderly Pató. The deeply feeling woman is fed up with the service beside the haughty land holder, she is longing for tenderness and a child. The passi ...

Pár lépés a határ (1959)

Based on the novel of the same name by Lajos Meszterházy about the escape from prison of two communists sentenced to death. The movie is set in 1921, two years after the defeat of the Hungarian Soviet Republic. ...

Yesterday (1959)

October, 1956. Colonel lieutenant Szabó sends a platoon with the mission of calming the people demonstrating in the town. The platoon is lined up under the command of Lieutenant Csendes and the soldiers aim at the demonstrators. Szusza Kis changes sides, ...

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. ...

At Midnight (1957)

On New Year's Eve in 1956 the artist couple, the actor János and the dancer Viki are hastily packing. While they are waiting for the car, which is to take them across the border, their entire life is replayed in front of their eyes. ...

Song of the Cornfields (1947)

A Hungarian soldier returning from fighting in the Second World War marries the woman he believes to be the widow of a former comrade who he thinks died in the POW camp in which they were held. ...

The School-Mistress (1945)

The protagonist of the story is Flora, a teacher who wants to teach in the village, in accordance with her vocation and her oath. Her beauty and purity bring her into conflict with the local authorities and with the landowning family of the countryside. Aw ...

Ragaszkodom a szerelemhez (1943)

Dr. Kálmán Bajor, a lawyer in his fifties, falls in love with his friend's secretary, twenty-year-old Turkish Vali. Valit seduces his young suitor and asks her to marry him. The lawyer's daughter Mimi does not look kindly on the marriage, but she cannot ...

People of the Mountains (1942)

A simple, religious Hungarian woodcutter lives with his wife and boy child with a small community of squatters among the peaceful mountains of Transylvania until a lumber company claims their land and forces them all to become company workers or else leave ...

Szeressük egymást (1940)

Uz Bence (1938)

László Bagyoni is forced to flee because he published a newspaper in the small Szekler village without permission. His friend Bence Uz, who lives in the mountains, takes him in. The notary's daughter Leticia arrives in the mountains with a hunting party. ...

Viki (1937)

Sister Maria (1937)

The title character in Maria Nover (Sister Maria) is played by Eva Szorenyi. A convent-bred lass on the verge of taking her final vows, Maria falls in love with a handsome artist, portrayed by popular operatic baritone Sandor Sved. Due to a silly misunders ...

Be True Until Death (1936)

The story follows the life of a bright and sensitive schoolboy growing up in an old, established boarding school in the city of Debrecen in eastern Hungary. ...

The New Landlord (1935)

Az Uj Foldesur (The New Squire) was based on a novel by popular Hungarian author Maurice Jokal, whose many works had previously been largely ignored. After the wars of 1848, a retired Austrian army officer "returns to the soil" as a gentleman farmer in Hun ...

Rakoczi March (1933)

Young Hussar captain falls in love-at-first-sight with classy young blonde, who turns out to be the sister of his captain. ...

Judgment of Lake Balaton (1933)

The story of balladistic intonation takes place at Lake Balaton, in a fisher village. The love of Kovács Mária and Szabó Mihály is hopeless due to a long animosity between their families. Mária is married by her father to his adopted son Kovács Jani. ...

Flying Gold (1932)

A shipment of gold being flown from Paris to Budapest is robbed in mid-air. ...