Erzsi Simor

1938 screen adaptation of the 1904 musical version of the classic Hungarian fairy tale poem by Sándor Petőfi about the romantic adventures of Kukorica Jancsi and his beloved Iluska.

Pista Dankó falls in love with Ilonka Jáky, the beautiful blonde lady, so his old love, Rózsi, the wild gypsy girl, puts a curse on him. Ilonka elopes with Pista and they marry. They live in difficult circumstances, but Lajos Pósa takes up the talented young man. Pista wants to recover his legendary violin, which has fallen into the possession of a Russian prince, so he goes on a tour of Russia. Here he meets Rózsi, who has become a famous dancer and now has a hold on him too. Meanwhile, Pista falls ill and returns home to die. In his last hours, a package arrives from Rosie. He plays his last song with the returned violin.

Szilárd, the wealthy and well-to-do manager, disgusted by the social life and the constant attacks of women, decides to spend a few days of vacation in the deserted archipelago of the Danube branch of Győr. He wants no people, no culture, no civilisation. But an accidental motorbike accident brings the unconscious Zsuzsanna to the island...

In Luxoria Prince Igor is preparing to accede to the throne and choose his wife on his 24th birthday. The mother Duchess's candidate is Duchess Xenia, but Igor loves Annie, the soap-maker's daughter.

In World War I, two men who look almost identical fight in the same battalion at the front. One of them, Peter Benedek, a landowner, is killed, while István Pongrácz, a mechanical engineer, is hit while wearing Benedek's coat. The severe head injury causes temporary amnesia, and Pongrácz is mistakenly sent to the Benedek estate. Mrs. Benedek is pleased to see that her card-playing husband has become a solid, hard-working man after his wound. But Pongrácz begins to remember...

Tóni is a delivery man in a furniture shop. As he has no place to go, he spends the nights in an antique bed in the shop window.

It rarely happens that a parent is not happy that their son is serious, hardworking and interested in nothing but work and the land. Well, our Péter Tamássy is like that. Péter's son is only interested in farming, so the father, who was a playboy in his youth, decides that before Péter gets married, he will introduce him to society a little. And to make sure that the child gets into good company, he entrusts him to his old love, the prima donna Ria. (Honthy Hanna in a wonderful movie role.)

The archduke's grandfather wants to thwart the love between Princess Erzsébet and András Balogh, a young man of lower rank. He sends Erzsébet to Switzerland and András Balogh to Warsaw as an embassy secretary. However, Erzsébet follows András to Warsaw, where they both become embroiled in criminal complications when András has to return home with important diplomatic documents. Back home, it turns out that everything happened so that Erzsébet could soften the archduke's grandfather's heart and rescue András from the predicament he got himself into for Erzsébet's sake... The film is set in Warsaw, and the exterior shots were taken just before the outbreak of World War II, so the film still shows Warsaw intact.

Nothing new under the sun. The famous 'Love Story' is only a faint reminder of the most successful pre-war Hungarian film. The relationship between the painter and the busy girl, as well as the third one, still holds surprises for us today.

Andras Kovacs' film, considered one of the most important Hungarian films of the 1960s, centers around four men who await trial for their involvement in the massacre of several thousand Jewish and Serbian people of Novi Sad in 1942. Each denies any responsibility, claiming that they were only following orders. The film is significant for its willingness to address the subject of Hungary's role in WWII, which was taboo at the time of the its release.

When his new wife from a peasant background is not accepted by his colleagues, a University Professor resigns his post and returns home to his rural village. After receiving popular support, he is returned to his position by the Minister of Education.

Gábor Szávay works as a clerk at General Electricity Ltd, despite having a degree in engineering and having written a book on the future of electricity. He could apply for a grant to improve his financial situation, but he doesn't because he is a namesake of the director. However, he is not disadvantaged, because his benevolent colleague does it for him, and even invites him to the CEO's home. But the host dies suddenly, and speculation about the inheritance begins. Can Gábor Szávay inherit?

Her husband, a talented engineer, having been killed in an accident years ago in America, Mrs. Gáldy, a widower, lives in poverty in a small village with Tomi, her little son.

Gábor, an ex-lord-lieutenant, now a widower lives a secluded life in his mansion. The commander in the house is Aunt Lili, a relative, whose main concern is to marry off the elder girl, the beautiful Mara

Lenke, a schoolgirl in Budapest, is in love with László, a middle-aged widower, owner of the estate in the neighbourhood of her own country home. She secretly follows him in Budapest, and they finally meet.

In a chic hotel in the French mountains, a lonely woman is attracting a lot of attention. And yet Eva is married, and thinks back with sad nostalgia to the first happy years of her marriage. She would like Adam to be a loving, attentive husband again. One rueful evening she decided to take a month's 'holiday' and travel to the mountains of France. But away from her husband, she realises that true love and appreciation are not about compliments, flowers or a night of dancing...

On the eve of World War II, Major Benedek Zoltán is an embodiment of the service regulations in the army. He only discloses his feelings towards Anna, his brother's widow. An investigation is conducted in the regiment to identify Communists.

Lovely young maid Anna works for the noble Vizy family. Mrs Vizy, while proud of the hard-working servant, doesn't treat her well. Her nephew seduces Anna with sweet words, but abandons her as soon as she gets pregnant.

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.