Sándor Szakácsi Movies

The story of a Jewish family living in Hungary—through three generations—rising from humble beginnings to positions of wealth and power...

Hungary's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1984

Via the New York Times: "The Hungarian director Gyula Gazdag has transposed the middle section of Balzac's "Lost Illusions" from Paris in the...

Barbara is a forty-year-old woman of Polish origin living in Budapest. She is a biologist, a wife and a mother. The death of her woman friend opens...

1958. In the cell of the condemned, seven men await the signs of an approaching execution. All of them recall their pasts and envision their...

The Christmas of 1944. The Pásztor family (father, mother, four daughters and a grandchild), are spending the holidays at their country farm....

Adapted for Hungarian TV.

1991, farewell in Budapest. Mária remembers the past in tears. Her husband, Tibor, a chemist and a target of the KGB, left their apartment one...

István, a király ("Stephen, the King") is a Hungarian rock opera written by Levente Szörényi (music) and János...

A country theatre wants to stage the historical play of the opposition author, who is famous abroad but it is well known, that he is fatally ill. The...

The man is promoted and given a new assignment at his work-place. At home, he stares at a video-cassette: it portrays his wife's face in countless...

The lifelong friendship of Edith Piaf and Marlene Dietrich.

Documentary screenplay, based on letters and writings of the composer Béla Bartók. Musical works composed throughout his life are...