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Sándor Simó
Born August 7, 1934 · Budapest, Austria-Hungary (now Hungary)
Died September 4, 2001 · aged 67
Sándor Simó was a prominent Hungarian film director, screenwriter, and producer. He graduated from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics in 1957 with a degree in chemical engineering and later pursued film directing at the Academy of Drama and Film in Budapest, graduating in 1964. Simó's directorial works include Those Who Wear Glasses (1969), which won the Golden Leopard at the Loc…
Known For
Sunshine · 1999Sunshine
★ 6.41999
MovieDramaHistory
The fate of a Hungarian Jewish family throughout the 20th century.
Close to Love · 1999Close to Love
★ 5.71999
MovieDramaRomance
A love story between a young, policeman and a Chinese immigrant girl, who speak no common language.
The Shadow Century · 1993The Shadow Century
★ 7.01993
MovieDramaMusic
A drugsploitation film by the Hungarian director András Dér
Dialogue · 1963Dialogue
★ 7.01963
MovieDrama
The film depicts the period between 1945-60 through the life of a communist couple. Barna Judit, just released from a concentration camp and Horváth László, with an illegal past are brought together by the communist movement. They study and make plans together in the hope of a future that will make sense. The marriage they just entered, however, gets ruined soon by the events of history.
Gangster Film · 1999Gangster Film
★ 6.01999
MovieActionAdventure
1979. Gábor H. works in a law enforcement institution. He robs a bank branch, gets into jail. 1989. Gábor H. and the similarly unemployed Sanyi want to get money by robbing.
Elie Wiesel Goes Home · 1997Elie Wiesel Goes Home
★ 9.01997
MovieDocumentaryHistory
A documentary chronicling the adolescent years of Elie Wiesel and the history of his sufferings. Eliezer was fifteen when Fascism brutally altered his life forever. Fifty years later, he returns to Sighetu Marmatiei, the town where he was born, to walk the painful road of remembrance - but is it possible to speak of the unspeakable? Or does Auschwitz lie beyond the capacity of any human language - the place where words and stories run out?
Sticky Matters · 2001Sticky Matters
★ 7.02001
MovieDrama
A girl is on the skids because of love. A short tempered and passionate young man falls in love with the girl. His emotions are so powerful that he is prepared to surrender his whole personality. The boy has a good friend, who is not sure whether their bond is friendly or homosexual. Before the girl arrived, the friendship was close, but now she has thrown a spanner in the works. How do they react to the new situation?
Those Who Wear Glasses · 1969Those Who Wear Glasses
★ 6.01969
MovieDramaRomance
The young Valkó wants to plan a block of apartments that will still be modern fifty years from now. His ambitious plans are continuously rejected by his manipulative and careless superiors. So instead of the modern block of flats he only plans a bachelor apartment.
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