György Palásthy

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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…

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The WizardThe Wizard · 1969
The Wizard
★ 7.01969
MovieFamilyFantasy
Amazing adventures of a little boy and his friend, the great wizard Chili Chala.
Giddy VacationsGiddy Vacations · 1987
Giddy 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 GroundsOn Home Grounds · 1969
On 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
A Harum-Scarum FamilyA Harum-Scarum Family · 1981
A 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.
Upside DownUpside Down · 1976
Upside 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.
Hi, Junior!Hi, Junior! · 1971
Hi, 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.
Alba RegiaAlba Regia · 1961
Alba 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 StreetVacations on the Dead Street · 1978
Vacations 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...

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Másfél millióMásfél millió · 1964
Másfél 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...

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