Movies: Bertalan Šolti

  • 1972
    Red Psalm

    Red Psalm (1972)

    Red Psalm

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    Set in the 1890s on the Hungarian plains, a group of farm workers go on strike in which they face harsh reprisals and the reality of revolt, oppression, morality and violence....

    Red Psalm
  • 1963
    Germinal

    Germinal (1963)

    Germinal

    7.41963HD

    Dismissed from the railroads in 1863 for his union activities, Etienne Lantier found a job at the Voreux coal mine. But work was hard, wages were low and safety left much to be desired. Lantier tried to organize the miners into a union. When mine man...

    Germinal
  • 1965
    My Way Home

    My Way Home (1965)

    My Way Home

    7.41965HD

    In the aftermath of World War II, a Hungarian teenager, captured by Soviet troops, forms an unlikely bond with a Russian soldier in a remote prison camp....

    My Way Home
  • 1965
    Twenty Hours

    Twenty Hours (1965)

    Twenty Hours

    5.51965HD

    A crusading newspaper reporter covers the Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956. Initially critical of the communists, the feature later espouses the virtues of the social changes implemented since the invasion. The title refers to the period of time th...

    Twenty Hours
  • 1959
    Yesterday

    Yesterday (1959)

    Yesterday

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    October, 1956. Colonel lieutenant Szabó sends a platoon with the mission of calming the people demonstrating in the town. The platoon is lined up under the command of Lieutenant Csendes and the soldiers aim at the demonstrators. Szusza Kis changes si...

    Yesterday
  • 1958
    Smugglers

    Smugglers (1958)

    Smugglers

    81958HD

    In the thirties, the poor living by the Romanian-Hungarian border, were forced to smuggling if they wanted to survive. Mihály, the Hungarian peasant, kills a border guard while fleeing. He is fed up with smuggling and wants to put an end to it, yet h...

    Smugglers
  • 1980
    The Pagan Madonna

    The Pagan Madonna (1980)

    The Pagan Madonna

    6.91980HD

    The unique statue of the ancient fertility goddess Demeter, known as the "Pagan Madonna" is stolen from the museum, located in a small town on Lake Balaton. At the same time seriously wounded a servant of the museum. The abduction of the museum's pri...

    The Pagan Madonna
  • 1957
    A Sunday Romance

    A Sunday Romance (1957)

    A Sunday Romance

    5.71957HD

    The poetic love story depicting everyday life from a micro-psychological aspect takes place in the 1910s. Sándor, editor of the local paper, serves as a foot soldier on Sundays, but spends weekdays playing billiard and courting women. One Sunday afte...

    A Sunday Romance
  • 1959
    Pár lépés a határ

    Pár lépés a határ (1959)

    Pár lépés a határ

    01959HD

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    Pár lépés a határ
  • 1966
    The Martyrdom of St. John

    The Martyrdom of St. John (1966)

    The Martyrdom of St. John

    01966HD

    Story of a young teacher starting to work in rural Hungary...

    The Martyrdom of St. John
  • 1974
    The Neglected Land

    The Neglected Land (1974)

    The Neglected Land

    4.71974HD

    The father remained in the village to farm land, while the son lives far away from their homeland and country for business. At one point, the son returns to the village and then the crucial question is: who will take care of the land when the father ...

    The Neglected Land
  • 1973
    Martin Cuckoo

    Martin Cuckoo (1973)

    Martin Cuckoo

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

    Martin Cuckoo
  • 1960
    It's a Long Way Home

    It's a Long Way Home (1960)

    It's a Long Way Home

    01960HD

    Csepel, 1945. The Csűrös family, in addition to their three children, give accommodation to the orphaned Jóska, although they themselves struggle with difficult circumstances. The boy lends a helping hand in the factory during the days....

    It's a Long Way Home
  • 1960
    Crime at Dawn

    Crime at Dawn (1960)

    Crime at Dawn

    01960HD

    Private inspector Hável happens to travel on the train which is attacked at Biatorbágy. His attention is drawn to a suspicious man, and in the next few days he confirms that it was indeed him who committed the crime. Yet the police accuses not the lu...

    Crime at Dawn
  • 1959
    Sleepless Years

    Sleepless Years (1959)

    Sleepless Years

    01959HD

    The "sleepless years" in this propaganda piece by director Felix Marlassy occur on Csepel Island, an island south of Budapest that is home to an armaments factory. The factory workers are shown being exploited by imperialists, capitalists gone berser...

    Sleepless Years
  • 1954
    Fourteen Lives

    Fourteen Lives (1954)

    Fourteen Lives

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    September 1952 in a mine in Northern-Hungary after an explosion water breaks in from the neighbouring shaft and fourteen miners become trapped. The whole country unites to save them....

    Fourteen Lives
  • 1954
    The Birth of Menyhért Simon

    The Birth of Menyhért Simon (1954)

    The Birth of Menyhért Simon

    71954HD

    Venice Film Festival 1954...

    The Birth of Menyhért Simon
  • 1962
    The Land of Angels

    The Land of Angels (1962)

    The Land of Angels

    01962HD

    The film is a ballad about the dwellers of a block-of-flats in Angyalföld....

    The Land of Angels
  • 1974
    The Myth-Makers

    The Myth-Makers (1974)

    The Myth-Makers

    01974HD

    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 ad...

    The Myth-Makers