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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.
The Shadow Century · 1993The Shadow Century
★ 7.01993
MovieDramaMusic
A drugsploitation film by the Hungarian director András Dér
Cloud Above the River Ganges · 2002Cloud Above the River Ganges
★ 5.52002
MovieDrama
András and Juli meet at a desperate moment in their lives, when they have both made a difficult decision, the consequences of which they cannot bear alone. András, a talented but heavily addicted programmer, decides to end his career, while Juli, a budding actress, has left her husband and temporarily her daughter to rethink her life. The two move in together and lock themselves in Andrew's apartment, where he enters his umpteenth detox, while Juli tries to help him with patience and love. In the weeks that follow, they explore the deepest depths of human existence, a hell of fear and humiliation, of physical and mental suffering. The hope of healing can mean new possibilities in the lives of these two men.
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?
My Father's Happy Years · 1977My Father's Happy Years
★ 8.01977
MovieDrama
Director Sandor Simo based this film on his recollections of a period in his father's life just after World War II. In the film, Janos Torok is a chemist and an entrepreneur With enormous enthusiasm, he gets loans to purchase a small chemical plant and begins experiments to create innovative products, such as hormones. Meanwhile, the communist party has come to dominate Hungarian life in such a way that his activities are viewed as little more than criminal. He is hauled away to a prison camp, but even then his letters home are full of boundless optimism and his ideas for further experiments.
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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