Péter Tímár

Haunted Holiday (2010)

Near-broke and desperate, Hungarian entrepreneur Feri decides to put a sleazy spin on tourism. After leasing a Lake Balaton boarding house, he moves in his gang -- wife, nephew, daughter, and the daughter's boyfriend -- and then sets out to scam unsuspecti ...

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 ...

The Prince's Respite (2006)

After a woman dies, the devil allows her to relive a 2 minute period over and over in order to escape her fate. ...

Le a fejjel! (2005)

When the court astrologer warns the king that the stars predict his imminent murder, the terrified monarch dons a beggar's disguise and flees the palace, seeking refuge in the cupbearer's home. Unbeknownst to him, the very assassin his own court magician h ...

It's Summer at Long Last (2002)

When the home where they grew up and spent the best days of their childhood is threatened, a group of kids bands together to try and save it. ...

Vakvagányok (2001)

One day, two unsuccessful rock musicians, Ede and Zaki, come across a competition. To commemorate the anniversary of the Institute for the Blind, they have to write a musical piece for the blind. Since there are no other candidates, they get the job. In tw ...

6:3, Play It Again Tutti (1999)

The makers, especially Péter Tímár wanted to invoke the atmosphere of the communist dictatorship of Rákosi era lasted from 1947 to 1956. I think they've managed to reconstruct it very much: if you read the history books about the era and newspapers fro ...

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. ...

Dollybirds (1997)

The movie is set in the actual "Ki Mit Tud?" talent contest in 1962. In reality the contest in dance music category was won by an army brass band. "Omega" which later became one of the most successful Hungarian rock bands came out in the second place. ...

Indul a bakterház (1994)

A teenage boy, Bendegúz Regős, who has never succeeded at anything in his life and of whom the only thing people remember is: "I wish they had hanged you when you were two days old", drops out of school and is hired by his mother to be a cowherd with the ...

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. ...

Leave Robinson Alone (1990)

Defoe, lacking fantasy of his own takes home the drunkard sailor from the pub and lets him tell his stories on the uninhabited island. ...

The Pregnant Papa (1989)

In the small village of Rátót, every male is called Béla. When a woman gives birth to her child, she names him Józsi... ...

Before the Bat's Flight Is Done (1989)

A divorced middle-aged woman takes home an ardent suitor, only to discover that he prefers her teenage son. The mother is an overworked coffee-shop attendant, the suitor turns out to be a plain-clothes policeman and the boy is a frustrated flautist. ...

Movie Clip (1987)

In the open-air cinema-like scenery domestic rock bands get time for a short movie clip each, linked by an also short musical frame-play. Each of the altogether eighteen clips is a whole film etude playing with visual-lingual associations, film ideas, reve ...

Sound Eroticism (1986)

In the box factory standing in the middle of nowhere only women work, and they themselves only waste their time, as the unmarketable boxes pile up in the yards. The fireman in duty, who stores stolen gasoline in the inflammable plant, sets up cameras in th ...

Daniel Takes a Train (1985)

In December 1956 there is a chaotic situation in Hungary. The revolution is put down by the Soviet army. People leave the country in large numbers for fear of revenge. A young soldier (György Angeli) who also took a part in the revolution, takes a train t ...

In Flagranti (1982)

Black and White Short. Featuring collage centered around a drive through the country. ...

A zebegényiek (1979)

Private History (1978)

The black and white short Private History (1978) by Gábor Bódy is made up of amateur recordings. So what would the presumably well-off people owning their own cameras direct the lens at before the Second World War? On the one hand, their own families, an ...

Visus (1976)

Visus shows the working of the eye using optical and sound effects neglecting the concrete nature of the objects depicted while promoting a technically impeccable exploration of photo receptive capacities to an essay on the visible and the invisible in ord ...

Hogyan csináljunk rossz filmet (2023)

Negative history of Hungarian cinema (2010)

Reconstructions of unrealized Hungarian films in cooperation with the greatest Hungarian film directors. ...