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Directing
Zsolt Kézdi-Kovács
Born June 1, 1936 · Zrenjanin, Kingdom of Yugoslavia [now Serbia]
Died September 9, 2014 · aged 78
No biography available.
Known For
Temperate Zone · 1970Temperate Zone
★ 9.01970
MovieDrama
Kalán Imre, the district doctor lives in a small village surrounded by mountains. One day he is visited by two young relatives of his and their friend, a doctor at the beginning of his career. The name of the doctor is Király András, and he happens to be the great love of Kalán's young wife from her unmarried years. The orthodox Stalinist Kalán's entire life is filled with his great passion, hunting. The suffocating, narrow lives of the prominent people in the area are slowly revealed to András.
Csutak and the Grey Horse · 1961Csutak and the Grey Horse
★ 10.01961
MovieFamily
Csutak is just a pain in the neck, the little boy is even excluded from play by his mates. Vacation is spent lonely until one day he sneaks the woman haulier's old, shabby horse, a creature that would be better off in a slaughterhouse, out with himself. Possessing the animal is the key to the children's gang. They all try to find a place for the horse.
When Joseph Returns · 1976When Joseph Returns
★ 8.01976
MovieDrama
An unsentimental Hungarian film about the edgy relationship between a middle-aged woman and her young, restless daughter-in-law when the son-husband goes to sea for six months.
Forbidden Relations · 1983Forbidden Relations
★ 4.91983
MovieDramaRomance
Based on a true story, a love affair develops between a half brother and half-sister. When pregnancy results and word gets out the public is outraged.
The Presence · 1965The Presence
★ 6.51965
MovieDocumentary
Two old men enter an abandoned synagogue, look at the decay around them, and pray.
Autumn · 1961Autumn
★ 8.01961
Movie
The Red and the White · 1967The Red and the White
★ 7.01967
MovieWarDrama
In 1919, Hungarian Communists aid the Bolsheviks' defeat of Czarists, the Whites. Near the Volga, a monastery and a field hospital are held by one side and then the other.
Romanticism · 1972Romanticism
★ 7.01972
MovieDrama
This film, set at the end of the 18th century, in a provincial and noble environment raises the question of humans forced to lead a meaningless life. The rich Transylvanian noble youth, Kálmán, absorbed the spirit of freedom and enlightened culture in Paris. Returning to his father's estate, he encounters a superstitious backwardness and an orgiastic storming of violence and instincts.

