László Szacsvay

Some Birds (2023)

The uplifting story of an unusual friendship between an elderly man trying to get out of a nursing home and an impulsive teenage girl on social work who decides to help him. ...

Blockade (2022)

The fresh president of Hungary find himself in trouble with taxi drivers. The taxi drives are disappointed in the democracy and protesting against the drasticly raising gas prices. The drivers build blockades all over the capital. ...

We Started Together (2022)

A coming of age story, in flashback, of a group of high school students graduating in 2011. Each will take a different path from here on. ...

The Legend of King Solomon (2017)

Eager to impress the Queen of Sheeba, a young Solomon accidentally releases the devil Asmodeus from his prison. With the Kingdom of Jerusalem in peril, Solomon and Princess Naama work together to find an end to Asmodeus' evil rule. ...

Mancs (2015)

In a 1990s Hungarian town, tram mechanic Zoltán secretly inherits a hyperactive German shepherd puppy, "Mancs," which he trains into a rescue dog in his spare time. As Mancs grows into Zoltán's pride and joy at their new mountain home, Zoltán's lies abo ...

Casting Everything (2008)

The story is based around an American Idol kind of TV talent show and the eventual winner of the contest: a young orphan woman, who works at an orphanage herself. As I learned from the werkfilm on the DVD, the story was specifically written for Oláh, who ...

Catcher: Cat City 2 (2007)

20 years after the events of the Cat Catcher, there is only one cat tribe left in Central Africa, who, after learning of what happened at the end of the first part, summon Moloch to help liberate the tamed cats and regain power over Earth. ...

De kik azok a Lumnitzer nővérek? (2006)

Olivér and Ficskó are fierce restaurant critics crusading for culinary excellence and mercilessly skewering inept chefs under the pseudonym "the Lumnitzer Sisters." Offended restaurateurs hire resourceful young manager Milica to unmask, neutralize or rec ...

The District (2004)

In an effort to end family feuding, a young gypsy travels back in time to kill mammoths to ensure Hungary becomes rich by killing mammoths in order to create a massive oil reservoir. Things don't go entirely according to plan... ...

Rosehill (2003)

The film shows the times directly before and after the revolution of 1956 in a Rosehill villa and its garden, guarded by the state security, from the perspective of a powerful party functionary's children living there. The children witness a lot of things ...

Pizzaman (2001)

An eclectic, quasi-surreal city road movie about two unspoken lovers who cruise a '68 Mustang through a dreamscape of pizza joints, art-deco skyscrapers, eclipsed suns, surf beaches and palm-fringed oceans, where red neon, hi-techno beats and old-school su ...

Hippolyt (1999)

Mr. Schneider became wealthy after the end of the communism, but still remained a simple man. Her wife although wants a lackey. ...

Pirates (1999)

A pirate radio, the girl next door, and a test of friendship. ...

Espresso (1998)

Zimmer Feri (1998)

The 50 years old Ferenc rents an apartment on the Balaton beach, but it has a lot of debt on it. His plan is to make it profitable. ...

Slap-Jack (1992)

The story happens in 1989 in the suburbs of Budapest, where the neighbor maintains an underground worker's guard training base, while the youngsters fall victim to a mistakenly posted letter. ...

A revizor (1989)

The corrupt leaders of a small rural town learn that an auditor is coming from St Petersburg. Frightened, they try to put things in order. Hlesztakov, a Petersburg official, has been starving for days in his inn in the small town, having gambled away all h ...

Übü király (1989)

The Empty King created a mythical figure and a whole world from grotesque, archetypal images. The drama was originally conceived as a student tirade against a teacher at Jarry's school, the Lyceum of Rennes. This teacher, Hébert, was the target of public ...

Én és a kisöcsém (1989)

Kató Kelemen is asked by her father to go to his office and welcome an important business partner of his. When Mr. Andersen arrives he assumes Kató is a secretary and instructs her to deliver a letter. He's about to travel to Venice with his nephew who h ...

S.O.S. Szobafogság! (1987)

Illatszertár (1987)

Oh, Bloody Life (1984)

The Hungarian Oh, Bloody Life reflects on the heavy emotional toll taken by the repressive Stalin regime. Dorotya Udvaros plays a young actress from a high-born family. The government bias against persons of wealth threatens to destroy her career before it ...

Heavenly Hosts (1983)

When hunting, Zrínyi Miklós finds an Angel with a broken wing. He takes him for a heavenly message and carries him to his castle for cure. Lords and priests come to Zrínyi's court, one after the other, to see Angel. The occasion is appropriate for the b ...

No Clues (1982)

Buksi, the smuggler meet with Peter, the intellectual, who has been thought about the perfect crime, without any trace for such a long time. The smuggler forced Peter to work together: Peter's going to plan the action and Buksi's buddies implement it. No c ...

Circus Maximus (1980)

During World War II Carlotta, the circus owner maintains herself, her lover and her rather run-down circus-team by illegal man-smuggling. In the year of 1944, besides the usual refugees, she even has to take Professor Máté, the renown mathematician to th ...

The Music's the Thing (1979)

Pólika, tired of her husband Balázs Nyiri's partying, moves in with her aunt. Nyiri, desperate to win her back, tries everything but fails. Aunt Zsani seeks help from her brother, Uncle Lajos. They sing Pólika's songs at a pub, joined by the household. ...

Szépség Háza (1976)

Nobody's Daughter (1976)

An orphan girl suffers abuse from her adoptive parents. ...

Requiem for a Revolutionary (1975)

The royal summary court sentences Sallai Imre and Fürst Sándor to death on charges of attempting to uproot the state and the social order. The film, the story of which takes place in 1932, enlarges the moment of delivering the death-sentence. Sallai, pre ...

Epidemic (1975)

The film evokes the era of the 1831 cholera epidemic and the peasant uprising which followed it. The way of Doctor Balás, cholera commissioner, and district administrator Hunyor leads through the mountains of Zemplén and is lined by unburied corpses, pea ...

Strange Faces (1974)

This documentarist film is about a juvenile delinquent's unsuccessful after-education. Two prospective psychologists decide to patronise Barta Jancsi. They visit him in prison and get him accommodation and a job, not sparing their time, energy and money, i ...

Végül (1974)

Martin Cuckoo (1973)

Marci, an impertinent crook buries his drunk parents and chooses to wander instead of becoming an apprentice. ...

There Was Once a Family (1972)

This film describes the narrator's childhood, the years before and after the Hungarian Soviet Republic, in a burlesque and fabulous style and with the humour of a child's fantasy. ...