Close to Love

A little girl manages to escape the horrors of the Holocaust. Decades later she is confronted by a group of Neo Nazis, and history repeats itself. Based on a true story.

Huttyán stands with a bottle of beer in his hand in front of the pub in Öcsöd. The police approach him and report him for "illegal drinking in a public area". Huttyán does not have a thousand forints to pay the penalty, he prefers to go to prison for twenty forints a day. He gets sick in prison, despite seeking medical help; He dies at the age of 57. This is how a career that never began ended. One of Huttyán's sons, Géza, watches TV all day from a wheelchair. He doesn't do anything else, it's his only connection to the world. In the spring of 1996, he sees the Grammy awards being presented in Los Angeles, and among them Deep Forest in the World Music category..

What do Hansel and his wife dream of in a one-and-a-half bedroom in a housing estate? They dream of being happy, successful and rich. They dream of the American dream. And because his father has been a US citizen for thirty years, they finally muster up the courage and all the money they can to embark on the great adventure. They fly across the ocean to start a new life in the promised land of their rebellious teenage daughter. True, they know only a few English words. In fact, all they know about America is what they see in movies and on TV. But they have great faith in Papa John, because John knows "what life is all about". The grandfather is both the typical Las Vegas retiree and the proud Hungarian who owns a real junkyard. Jenő is a true survivalist and a desert philosopher, whose great banalities are sometimes interspersed with real wisdom.

The loving couple of this grotesque parable parody of the Kádár-regime, Mária and István row to an uninhabited, idyllic island. Soon crazy tent-pitchers swarm to the island, led by an official representative of the regime.

The story takes place on Valentine's Day in no man's land, one of the craziest days of the century, when everything is turned upside down, the turn of seemingly random events slowly connecting together.

Anthology film made as an act of protest against Hungarian government of Viktor Orban.

The 'National Documentary' captures the last months of the National Theater led by Róbert Alföldi. The film presents two opposite processes: the rehearsal of the play Mephisto, Alföldi's last direction and, in parallel, the dissolution of the troupe.