Lajos Sugár

Military Band (1961)

Merry soldiers arrive in the sleepy Transdanubian town. The cynical woman-hunter, Ferdinándy, learns to know doctor Barlay's beautiful wife at a carnival. She lives a happy married life, and the attentions of the lieutenant are all in vain. ...

Crime at Dawn (1960)

Private inspector Hável happens to travel on the train which is attacked at Biatorbágy. His attention is drawn to a suspicious man, and in the next few days he confirms that it was indeed him who committed the crime. Yet the police accuses not the lunati ...

Sleepless Years (1959)

The "sleepless years" in this propaganda piece by director Felix Marlassy occur on Csepel Island, an island south of Budapest that is home to an armaments factory. The factory workers are shown being exploited by imperialists, capitalists gone berserk, and ...

Georges Dandin (1955)

György Dandin, the rich bourgeois concludes a marriage contract with the noblemen Lükeházy couple who has turned poor: he can marry their daughter in return of a regular financial contribution. Angyalka escapes the undesired husband at their very first ...

Erkel (1952)

We have linguists, we have literary men, we have newspapers, actors, musicians, but we have no national opera!", lamented the champions of national revival in the middle of the last century. Hungarian music culture at home is limited to the performance of ...

Nyugati övezet (1952)

Prof. Laurent Akush from the Institute of Geophysics is working on a device that can be used to locate coal underground. For successful work he needs a tube XCX13, it is available in the West, but foreign firms sabotage the supply of the device. In his ins ...

Club Seven (1944)

In a small town in the countryside, the election of the president of the restaurant trade association is under way. The two rivals, Dénes Kövi, owner of the elegant Korona restaurant, and Antal Bálint, owner of the staid Makkhetes restaurant, are puttin ...

Something Is in the Water (1944)

A mysterious woman brings disaster to a small country town. ...

Boldoggá teszlek (1944)

A '28-as' (1943)

Estélyi ruha kötelező (1942)

You can get anywhere in a tailcoat. Viktor Norton, a young man imprisoned by mistake, also knows this. In Viktor's tailcoat, he can easily get to the Excelsior Hotel, where he will meet the newly wealthy Dupont couple and their daughter Marie. ...

Sirius (1942)

Tibor Ákos, an intrepid and dreamy Hungarian count, embarks on an incredible adventure when he accepts the inconceivable challenge set by the eccentric Professor Sirius, who has invented a peculiar machine. ...

Alpine Sunlight (1941)

Ágnes, Vass and Kriszt run a sanatorium for consumptives. Fifi, daughter of the institute owner is also here, mortally ill. Feri, the ski trainer relieves her with his courtship every now and then from her boredom and distress. ...

A Bowl of Lentils (1941)

Pista Dankó (1941)

Pista Dankó falls in love with Ilonka Jáky, the beautiful blonde lady, so his old love, Rózsi, the wild gypsy girl, puts a curse on him. Ilonka elopes with Pista and they marry. They live in difficult circumstances, but Lajos Pósa takes up the talented ...

Two Girls on the Street (1939)

Two girls run away from a small village. Gyöngyi comes from an aristocratic family and her father throws her out of the house when he discovers she has gotten pregnant out of wedlock. She finds herself wandering the streets of Budapest and earns money pla ...

The Lady is a Little Crazy (1938)

Bimbi, aka Takács Klára is unemployed. She lives in a sublet and has no idea how she will live and pay her bills. But luckily for her, the previous tenant, who had a letter of recommendation for the director of Tormássy Works, has now been put in a ment ...

The Dream Car (1934)

A light hearted comedy, from the thirties. One of the most successful ones in Hungary. The ever enchanting story of a beautiful girl falling in love with a rich man. ...

Piri Knows Everything (1932)

Two actors and a theater assistant live in modest circumstances in a rented apartment in Budapest. The two men constantly play cards with each other in symbolic stakes, and Béla Bognár's wife, Piri, runs the household. However, the atmosphere is good, an ...