András Kozák

In Hungary, the national movement led by Kossuth has been crushed and the Austrian hegemony re-established, but partisans carry on with violent actions. In order to root out the guerilla, the army rounds up suspects and jails them in an isolated fort. The authorities do not have the identity of the guerilla leaders, who are supposed to be present among the prisoners. However, they know enough about some of the suspects to apply perfidious forms of coercion effectively. (imdb)

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 then the other. Captives are executed or sent running naked into the woods. Neither side has a plan, and characters the camera picks out soon die. A White Cossack officer kills a Hungarian and is executed by his own superiors when he tries to rape a milkmaid. (imdb)

Miklós Jancsó's Silence and Cry is set during a turbulent era of disquiet, fear, persecution and terror, which permeates every corner of post-WWI Hungarian society. In 1919, after just a few months of communist rule the Hungarian Republic of Councils falls victim to a nationalist counter-revolution... (imdb)

In the final days of WWII, a seventeen-year-old boy wanders the countryside. He is captured by Soviet troops, then released, then captured once more - after he has donned a German uniform for warmth - and imprisoned at a remote barracks, where he strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Russian soldier. (imdb)

A group of young communists get into a religious high school in order to convince the pupils about he glories of Communism. (karagarga.net)

A group of young adults is confronted with questions of death, responsibility and friendship after one of them drowns in the river.

The last months of life of Hungarian writer Máté Zalka who joined the International Brigades and fought in the Spanish Civil War.

A soldier sentenced to death, urged on by a chaplain, prays to a saint who is revered for his miracles. At the moment of the execution, the soldier disappears in a bombardment. The chaplain believes he stayed in the bombing, but the soldiers think he escaped and speak of a miracle. The chaplain will be faced with a problem of conscience: should the masses be made to believe in a miracle or not? (Moviemeter.nl)

Sophisticated German miniseries on the life and work of Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), one of the greatest musicians and composers of all time.