Sándor Kardos

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. ...

Regina (2013)

The first woman rabbi in the world, Regina Jonas, comes to light, courtesy of Rachel Weisz – who plays her – and her father George Weisz, who was the executive producer for this poetic and beautiful documentary. The daughter of an Orthodox Jewish peddl ...

Metamorphosis: Immersive Kafka (2010)

This experimental interactive short film is the most authentic adaptation of Kafka's famous story, The Metamorphosis, where Gregor Samsa one morning finds himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. The film tells the entire story using a subjec ...

Vespa (2010)

A boy's secret trek from his country town to Budapest to claim a prize evolves into the hopeful search for his missing father. Lali, a Roma boy, wins a chocolate bar from a friend in a card game and discovers that the wrapper makes him the lucky winner of ...

The Grave Digger (2010)

Ever since I started making films it has bothered me in a certain sense that film images are far too concrete, because technically they try to imitate the sense of space characteristic of everyday life. So the story ignites the imagination only to be slowe ...

Átváltozás (2009)

Irodalom (2009)

The Days of Desire (2008)

Anna, a mute teenager, takes a job as housekeeper to a wealthy but unhappy couple, who quickly install her as the heart of their fractured household. All three glimpse the possibility of redemption - but when Anna falls in love, the idyll is threatened, an ...

An Old-Fashioned Story (2006)

In the second half of the 1800s, the daughter of a Debrecen family marries a landowner, Kálmán Jablonczay. The couple move to the husband's castle. The marriage starts off happily but the new wife, Mária Rickl, soon finds herself at odds with the gentry ...

Résfilm (2005)

Japanese guy meditating on stuff. ...

Hóesés a Vizivárosban (2004)

Telitalálat (2003)

The main character, Béla Hackspacher, is a forklift driver. He lives in a small rented flat with his wife Irén, his two children, his mother-in-law and Rózsika, a subtenant who is about to become a dance singer. Béla learns at a community cultural prog ...

Szent Iván napja (2003)

A day in the life of hungarian movie star Iván Székely. ...

The Bridgeman (2002)

This epic story takes place between 1820 and 1860 during the Habsburg Monarchy, and portrays the life one of the greatest Hungarian aristocrats - Count Széchenyi - who was born with extra-ordinary mental and spiritual talents. In the years following the f ...

Glamour (2000)

The tumultuous history of Hungary through the twentieth century is viewed through the saga of the Hungarian-Jewish, furniture-manufacturing family, the Vendels. After taking over the once successful, but now failing, family business in the 1930s, the famil ...

On Tour (1993)

This Hungarian comedy depicts the exploits of 8 members of a travelling troupe of actors and musicians as they move about the country performing a series of one night stands. ...

Anna filmje (1993)

One summer morning, Anna tells her husband, the writer, that she is in a blessed state, but that she doubts whether she should have a fourth child in addition to the three she already has, because "having children here is, to put it mildly, illogical". Thi ...

The Three Sisters (1991)

The sisters have been living in a Soviet barracks in Hungary for eleven years. They long to go to Moscow, but they are drawn here by habituation and inertia. Their father, the brigade commander, is dead, yet they are unable to act and prefer to remain in t ...

Itt a szabadság! (1991)

At the time of the regime change, Imre Kopa travels to Austria with three suspicious characters to buy various items for his client. But in Vienna, nothing goes as planned. ...

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... ...

The Midas Touch (1989)

A deep drama about life in Hungary after the WW2 until the revolt against Russians in '56. The main character is the head of the black market in Budapest. He thinks he can buy everyone and everything but at the end he must face that he can't buy life. A mu ...

Dream Brigade (1989)

The heroes of the film are manual workers, members of a Socialist Brigade. Gyula, the brigade leader once has a dream where the gate-keeper searches through Lenin, about to leave the factory. He decides to stage Gelman's play, Premium, with his brigade, si ...

Arc és álarc - Beszélgetés Szentkuthy Miklóssal (1989)

Miklós Szentkuthy reports on his life, his works, the Holy Trinity, Karl Marx, and the time he became a cardinal. ...

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 ...

Radnóti (1985)

Documentary short about Hungarian poet Miklós Radnóti (1909-1944). ...

The Disciples (1985)

The heroes of this story, based on real events at the end of the 1930s and during World War II, face and dismiss the illusions of intellectuals about their ability to transform society. Professor Magyary and his disciples hoped to promote the modernisation ...

The Annunciation (1984)

Adam and Eve, after Eden, are granted dreams of the world to come by a deceptively sweet but ultimately contemptuous Lucifer. Adam confronts an endless procession of the horror of the human story... rapists and concubines, betrayal and savagery, mindless c ...

Autumn Almanac (1984)

In this dense setting, the inhabitants of a large, claustrophobic apartment reveal their darkest secrets, fears, obsessions and hostilities. ...

Little Valentino (1979)

The twenty-year-old young man Sz. László is a lorry guard employed by an agricultural co-operative located in the vicinity of the capital. One day he neither posts the money officially entrusted to him nor goes to work, spending time and money as he like ...

The Myth-Makers (1974)

Eighteen years after the failure of the revolution and freedom fighting 1848-49, the politicians of Hungary preparing for a compromise with Austria try to make use of the symbol of the revolution, the figure of the poet Petőfi Sándor, to their own advant ...

Hogyan csináljunk rossz filmet (2023)

A kinematográfus (2022)

In memory of Janos Toth. The ciematographer on title is no other than János Tóth, who is still the role model and reference point for all Hungarian cinematographers. He has proven his unique talent in all cinematographic genres. In his unmissable feature ...