Róbert Alföldi

Cat Call (2023)

A girl in her thirties who lost all her hope in finding love meets a black cat, who can talk, but only the girl can hear it. ...

Impostor (2021)

I am not good enough. My results so far are simply due to luck. Everyone will laugh at me." - repines the well-known astronomy professor by his impostor syndrome. Meanwhile, an unprecedented overall power outage is about to take place in the city of Budape ...

A Country Divided (2018)

Twenty well-known Hungarian artists - 10 right-wing (said to be) and 10 left-liberal (said to be) writers, directors, actors, musicians talk about the regime change and what has happened to us here in the last 30 years. ...

Nemzeti dokumentumfilm (2014)

The 'National Documentary' captures the last months of the National Theater led by Róbert Alföldi. The film presents two opposite processes: the rehearsal of the play Mephisto, Alföldi's last direction and, in parallel, the dissolution of the troupe. ...

56 Drops of Blood (2007)

Our story takes place in a small frontier town that is a real cross-section of the dreaded terror of the 1950s. On October 23, 1956, the ÁVÓ is throwing a ball for the birthday of the daughter of the local Russian commander. At this ball, the young peopl ...

Kire ütött ez a gyerek? (2007)

For two decades, Éva Janikovszky wrote her famous children's monologues, which have remained popular ever since. In some of her books, she always writes about the problems of her boy protagonist, which are related to a particular age. This is how the auth ...

Noah's Ark (2007)

In Budapest's Sixth District stands the "Noah's Ark", a "dirty-beautiful" tenement housing thirteen flats filled with a rapper, a poet, a washed-up footballer, an unfaithful wife, three aspiring actresses, retired cinema director Stock Ede and his home-bou ...

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 ...

Vadkörték - A tihanyi kincsvadászat (2002)

Royal Baths (1993)

Prinzenbad gives us a microcosm of a society dominated by male power plays, wheeling and dealing, corruption, love, and eroticism. ...

The Last Summer (1991)

Imre Horváth and his friends gather to celebrate his wife's birthday. They are confused because of the changes in the country's politics and want Horváth to be much more active politically, but he is more concerned about his affair with his best friend's ...

Erosion (1990)

The film constructs a strongly conventionalised and symbolic world out of the diary fragments of a man who underwent an alcohol detoxification treatment. The protagonist of this unusual family story, Petunia Joe, lives in a house with his mother and grandf ...

Figaro házassága (2020)

István, a király - 30. éves jubileumi előadás (2013)

"István és Koppány," the definitive Hungarian rock-opera by Levente Szörényi and János Bródy about the nation's founding, returns for its 30th anniversary in a bold new staging by Róbert Alföldi. With unchanged music and lyrics, the spectacle unfo ...

Where Were You, My Son? (2008)

Set in a large apartment in Hungary during the death throes of communism, obedient Andor lives with his eccentric mother, Rebeka, a once-celebrated stage actress-turned-recluse. After years of coexisting in a love-hate relationship marked by routine and po ...

Kire ütött ez a gyerek? (2007)

For two decades, Éva Janikovszky wrote her famous children's monologues, which have remained popular ever since. In some of her books, she always writes about the problems of her boy protagonist, which are related to a particular age. This is how the auth ...