Showing films of "Hungary"

Confidence
1980's Confidence was nominated for the Academy Award and Szabó won Berlin's Silver Bear for Best Director. In World War II-era Hungary, the resistance pairs two unrelated members to act as h...
Istvan Szabo, Hungary, 1980Blu-ray, DCP, DVD

Mephisto
The 1981 Academy Award-winning (Best Foreign Language Film) Mephisto concerns a passionate, but struggling actor (Klaus Maria Brandauer) who remains in Germany during the Nazi regime and reaps th...
Istvan Szabo, Hungary, 1981Blu-ray, DCP, DVD

Electra, My Love
It has been fifteen years since the death of her father, Agamemnon, and Elektra, still burning with hatred towards his murderer, the tyrant Aegisztosz, attempts to rouse an apathetic population agains...
Miklós Jancsó, Hungary, 1974DCP

Red Psalm
Set on the Hungarian plains of the 1890s. When a group of farm workers go on a strike, demanding basic rights from a landowner, they are met with soldiers on horseback, facing harsh reprisals and the ...
Miklós Jancsó, Hungary, 1971DCP

Colonel Redl
Set in the lead up to WWI, Szabó's Cannes Grand Jury-winning Colonel Redl charts the rise of Alfred Redl to head of counter-intelligence of the Austro-Hungarian Army.
Istvan Szabo, Hungary, Germany, Austria, 1984Blu-ray, DCP, DVD
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Master Shot: The Films of Miklós Jancsó
Kino Lorber is proud to bring to North American theaters this touring series featuring restorations of six films by Miklós Jancsó, "the greatest Hungarian film director of all time" (B&e...
Miklós Jancsó, Hungary,DCP

The Confrontation
Paralleling the dramatic student protests and riots that were exploding across the world in the 1960s at the time the film was made, The Confrontation is a story of protest and rebellion. Set in 1947...
Miklós Jancsó, Hungary, 1968DCP

My Twentieth Century
Ildikó Enyedi’s fairytale-like, unconventional ironic film luminaire was awarded the Camera d'Or at Cannes in 1989. On the eve of the 20th century, two twin girls, Lili the anarchist and ...
Ildiko Enyedi, Hungary, 1989Blu-ray, DCP, DVD

The Round-Up
Miklós Jancsó’s most renowned work depicts a prison camp in the aftermath of the 1848 Hungarian Revolution. After the Hapsburg monarchy succeeds in suppressing Lajos Kossuth's nati...
Miklós Jancsó, Hungary, 1966DCP, Blu-ray

The Red and The White
A haunting, powerful film about the absurdity and evil of war. Set in Central Russia during the Civil War of 1918, The Red and The White details the murderous entanglements between Russia's Red soldie...
Miklós Jancsó, Hungary, Russia, 1967DCP

Winter Wind
In the mid-1930s a group of Croatian anarchists led by the grim revolutionary ascetic Marko Lazar (played by the film’s French producer Jacques Charrier) escape a bungled ambush in Yugoslavia cr...
Miklós Jancsó, Hungary, France, 1969DCP