József Madaras

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)

Mycenae. Electra (Mari Töröcsik) is considered mad because she mourns the loss of her father, Agamemnon, and roams the countryside accusing the new king Aegisthus of murder. She constantly claims that her brother Orestes will return to right the injustice and expel the usurper who rules the country with an iron fist. A messenger brings word that Orestes is dead, but soon thereafter he appears, to do exactly what the 'mad' Electra has foretold.

Alegory of the suppression of the 1919 revolution and the advent of fascism in Hungary; in the countryside, a unit of the revolutionary army spares the life of father Vargha, a fanatical priest. He comes back and leads massacres. A new force, represented by Feher, apparently avanges the people, but only to impose a different, more refined and effective kind of repression. (Francisco Baez)

It is the 15th c. in Hungary. And young prince Gaspar (Laszlo Galffy) was sent off to Italy when he was just two years old, and now he has come back to his father's castle as a grown man, with a troupe of actors in tow. Once arrived at the castle, he discovers his mother is in a kind of trance state, reportedly drinking the blood of virgins to keep her forever young (just like the infamous Bloody Lady Elizabeth Bathory). (Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide)

Belonging to Jancso's later avant-garde work, this is an allegorical film that deals with universal creation. (mubi.com)

Croatian anarchists collaborate with Hungarians to make a bid at the life of King Alexander of Yugoslavia, in this virtuoso exercise of camera motion and sound editing by Miklós Jancsó. (mubi.com)

The narrative concerns the barbaric exploits of Attila The Hun and yet none of the characters ever leave the remote seaside stretch of land on which the film is set or do much of anything - with the ensuing moralizing interrupted only by the occasional (and equally obscure) music-infused rites. (themoviedb)

A new supervisor arrives at a horse ranch, but he is not at all well liked, he meets quite an amount of resistance and cannot put across his will. (imdb)

More than a storyline with a beginning, middle, and end, this tale of a foundry worker who engages a woman - and fellow worker - to do housekeeping for him is a tale that holds up the Hungarian social system against the morality of an exploitative male-female relationship. (Filmaffinity)

In the first days of peace after World War II, chemical engineer János Török unexpectedly "got" a ruined chemical plant. He enthusiastically sets out to experiment with a new serum, making his old dream come true. Struggling financially, but working happily to achieve the big goal. However, the new social order does not support private enterprise. (Port.hu)

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)

Captain Michael Strogoff is chosen in Moscow to be the courier of the Tsar, 5,523 km far to Irkutsk, to warn the governor about the traitor Ivan Ogareff, a former colonel, who was once demoted and exiled and now seeks revenge. (imdb)

During the Rákóczi's War of Independence in South Baranya, in Vienna, Colonel Eberstein is assigned by the Council of Warriors to dispose of the Kuruc army operating in the vicinity of Siklós. (imdb)