Directing
György Palásthy
Born January 12, 1931 · Esztergom, Hungary
Died April 16, 2012 · aged 81
György Palásthy ( Esztergom , January 12 , 1931 – Budapest , April 16, 2012 ) Hungarian film director and screenwriter, winner of the Béla Balázs Prize . His parents were Sándor Palásthy and Anna Blahovics. He was studying electrical engineering when he won a literary competition at the age of 16. In 1950, he was admitted to the Academy of Theater and Film Arts , where he graduated in 1954 with a…
Known For
A Harum-Scarum Family · 1981A Harum-Scarum Family
★ 6.81981
MovieFamilyComedy
The intellectual family Faragó lives a bit busy life, but ensures complete autonomy for its members in a tiny flat in Budapest, while the newly rich Belvizis in the neighbourhood have a luxury apartment and a conventional and purposeful life, sentencing their only daughter for solitude.
Return Ticket · 1997Return Ticket
★ 6.91997
MovieDrama
Five old men and a kid are travelling in a train's cabin without purpose. They travel because it's free and they don't have another place to stay. From their conversations we learn the tragedies of their lives. Also the hidden interlockings of their faith will out slowly.
The Wizard · 1969The Wizard
★ 7.01969
MovieFamilyFantasy
Amazing adventures of a little boy and his friend, the great wizard Chili Chala.
Giddy Vacations · 1987Giddy Vacations
★ 8.01987
MovieAdventureComedy
A family of boisterous children expect their father to organize a really exciting holiday. So when the chance comes up of spending it on a boat, the Ramona, it seems that the problem is solved.
On Home Grounds · 1969On Home Grounds
★ 8.71969
MovieComedy
This ironic comedy is set in the god-forsaken Kiskúnbékás, at the end of the fifties. There are no jobs, the town's "golden team", who once were third class national soccer players have scattered
Alba Regia · 1961Alba Regia
★ 10.01961
MovieDrama
A Hungarian doctor, Dr. Hajnal, who always considered himself out of politics, falls in love with the Soviet intelligence agent, the radio operator Alba, operating in the occupied Wehrmacht of Hungary. By accident, the radio operator is hiding in the doctor’s house. Hainal is drawn into a life-threatening confrontation with the Germans. A difficult question arises before him: to remain neutral when people die around and Alba is threatened with death, or to remain an honest person — to make his personal choice and take part in this struggle.
Vacations on the Dead Street · 1978Vacations on the Dead Street
★ 9.51978
MovieAdventureFamily
A group of children are spending their summer in the newly built district which doesn't have any attractions...
Upside Down · 1976Upside Down
★ 8.01976
MovieAdventureFamily
Adults are so fed up with disobedient children, they left them and went off camping. All of them. First, the children were happy - now you can do anything, no washing, dance all night and no school! But then they run out of food, nothing to eat, cook for the children themselves can not and do not know how, and there's no one to treat them when the stomach aches or headache, or when you fall off your bike. At the end the kids decide to send a kite to the parents, with a request to forgive them.
Movies
A Harum-Scarum Family · 1981A Harum-Scarum Family
★ 6.81981
MovieFamilyComedy
The intellectual family Faragó lives a bit busy life, but ensures complete autonomy for its members in a tiny flat in Budapest, while the newly rich Belvizis in the neighbourhood have a luxury apartment and a conventional and purposeful life, sentencing their only daughter for solitude.
Return Ticket · 1997Return Ticket
★ 6.91997
MovieDrama
Five old men and a kid are travelling in a train's cabin without purpose. They travel because it's free and they don't have another place to stay. From their conversations we learn the tragedies of their lives. Also the hidden interlockings of their faith will out slowly.
The Wizard · 1969The Wizard
★ 7.01969
MovieFamilyFantasy
Amazing adventures of a little boy and his friend, the great wizard Chili Chala.
Giddy Vacations · 1987Giddy Vacations
★ 8.01987
MovieAdventureComedy
A family of boisterous children expect their father to organize a really exciting holiday. So when the chance comes up of spending it on a boat, the Ramona, it seems that the problem is solved.
On Home Grounds · 1969On Home Grounds
★ 8.71969
MovieComedy
This ironic comedy is set in the god-forsaken Kiskúnbékás, at the end of the fifties. There are no jobs, the town's "golden team", who once were third class national soccer players have scattered
Alba Regia · 1961Alba Regia
★ 10.01961
MovieDrama
A Hungarian doctor, Dr. Hajnal, who always considered himself out of politics, falls in love with the Soviet intelligence agent, the radio operator Alba, operating in the occupied Wehrmacht of Hungary. By accident, the radio operator is hiding in the doctor’s house. Hainal is drawn into a life-threatening confrontation with the Germans. A difficult question arises before him: to remain neutral when people die around and Alba is threatened with death, or to remain an honest person — to make his personal choice and take part in this struggle.
Vacations on the Dead Street · 1978Vacations on the Dead Street
★ 9.51978
MovieAdventureFamily
A group of children are spending their summer in the newly built district which doesn't have any attractions...
Upside Down · 1976Upside Down
★ 8.01976
MovieAdventureFamily
Adults are so fed up with disobedient children, they left them and went off camping. All of them. First, the children were happy - now you can do anything, no washing, dance all night and no school! But then they run out of food, nothing to eat, cook for the children themselves can not and do not know how, and there's no one to treat them when the stomach aches or headache, or when you fall off your bike. At the end the kids decide to send a kite to the parents, with a request to forgive them.
That Lovely Green Grass · 1979That Lovely Green Grass
★ 7.71979
MovieAdventureFamily
Misu is spending his summer holiday in an old block of flats in Budapest. The caretaker of the house, Poldi, a park attendant by occupation, is going to retire in a few days and he is afraid to think ahead of the years to come without grass and trees. An idea comes to Misu to spend the summer in an active way. He organises a working party to sod the inner court of the block of flats they live in. To achieve his plan, he has to make alliances with some people and to win the opponent to the idea, namely Kamilla, an insurance consultant. Their assistants in this mission will be the dustman and the coal deliverer and Piroska, a girl spending her holyday at Kamilla's.
Junior Jr. Comes · 1972Junior Jr. Comes
★ 8.01972
MovieComedy
Öcsi is going to have a little brother. The little child is sulking, he is deeply hurt because he learns the great secret not from his parents but his best friend, Évike.
Faithful for Nothing · 1966Faithful for Nothing
★ 8.01966
MovieComedy
Eve, the old professor zsongják beautiful wife surrounded by colleagues. When the professor's going away for a conference abroad, intensifying the suitors attempts. Eve, however faithful to her husband, so that the denials are increasing. Oddly enough, the rejected accidents ...
Hi, Junior! · 1971Hi, Junior!
★ 7.41971
MovieComedyFamily
Everyone loves little Junior, but nobody has time for him. So Junior decides to find Time with the help of his friends - dwarves.
A Lad on White Horse · 1973A Lad on White Horse
★ 10.01973
MovieDrama
"Don't give up your dream" - this is how Demjén Ferenc's song goes and Gyuri darts along the endless fields on a white horse. The young crane-operator lives in a small larder-room, where he has to hang his chair on the wall and the tap drips. He has to share his mornings with his two dream "man-hunters", his father and his brother, who feel that he does not belong to them because of his desires and ambitions.
Ketten haltak meg · 1966Ketten haltak meg
★ 9.01966
MovieDramaRomance
The Rebellion of the Straw Men · 2001The Rebellion of the Straw Men
★ 10.02001
MovieDramaFantasy
Buda, 1851. Jeromos Hétszáz, a puppet maker living in Óbuda, and his wife, Óguszta, a childless couple, have given refuge to the orphans of those fallen in the war of liberty or jailed, most recently to Pál Penyige and Borbála Derelye. Overjoyed when the chief of police orders fifty straw puppets, they are distressed on learning that the puppets will be publicly hanged in effigy of Lajos Kossuth and the leaders of the war of liberty.
S.O.S. Szobafogság! · 1987S.O.S. Szobafogság!
★ 7.01987
MovieDramaFamily
Our Kid · 1959Our Kid
★ 7.01959
MovieComedy
Kölyök, this lovely, ham-handed young woman, has caused many a trouble already in the Dunaújváros Iron Works. Fortunately, however, the manager does not want to give her up, what is more, Kölyök found a second father even at the police.
Pikemen · 1975Pikemen
★ 9.01975
MovieCrimeDrama
Másfél millió · 1964Másfél millió
★ 10.01964
MovieComedy
Mihai Toth worked for forty years as a watchman in a timber warehouse. On his last watch, there was a fire: the warehouse burned to the ground. The damage amounted to one and a half million forints. It was a terrible blow to Mihai, who had worked honestly all his life. Suddenly it turns out that Mihai has won one and a half million forints in a lottery. Wanting to save his good name, he wants to deposit this sum in the state treasury. But it turned out to be not so easy: the cause of the fire has not been established and Mihai's guilt has not been proved. That's why nobody had the right to take money from him. For a long time Mihai wandered from one institution to another with a request to accept money from him, but everything was in vain. Then the old man tried a trick...
The Naked Diplomat · 1963The Naked Diplomat
★ 6.81963
MovieComedy
Félix, a somewhat clod-hopping young man, finds himself in the Grand Hotel of Little Lagonda, barefooted and in pyjamas. He is soon followed by a hooded, fat and leggy gangster. This is all the more strange as the hotel is under quarantine with the pretext of a plague-epidemic, in order to make it a suitable ground for the negotiations of certain oil-companies.
The Music of Life · 1984The Music of Life
★ 4.01984
MovieDramaMusic
The Soviet-Hungarian film version of the biography of one of the most talented composers of our time, the classic of the Vienna operetta - Imre Kálmán, known for all his music for operettas "The Csárdás Princess", "Countess Maritza", "The Circus Princess", "The Violet of Montmartre", "Die Bajadere" and many others. The music of Imre Kálmán has no equal in operetta for its festivity, “elegance”, and the refinement of melodics and orchestration.
A Bus Does Not Stop · 1962A Bus Does Not Stop
★ 9.01962
MovieComedyCrime
A young woman on board of a bus notices that her watch has been stolen. The ticket collector keeps everybody on board, and upon the advice of a traffic police, they drive directly to the nearest police station.
