Zoltán Fábri

In a rural scenery in the throes of difficult changes lives a humble but promising young farmer girl called Mari Pataki. Her father forbids her from seeing the man she loves. The father, above all preoccupied by work on the fields and prospective wealth, decides to give his daughter in marriage to an old but rich man with whom he does business. Land marries land, he says. This seems to be the unyielding rule of the Hungarian peasantry. (imdb)

Spring 1944, Ukraine, a Nazi forced labour camp. A football match is organized between the Hungarian prisoners and the German soldiers to celebrate the Fuhrer's birthday.

It takes place shortly after WW2. Hungary is still being occupied by outside forces. A group of friends sit and talk, engaging in everyday subjects. But one of them tells a serious story. (Amazon)

The most extraordinary battle ever fought by the bravest army that ever had to be home for dinner. (imdb)

During World War II, a group of Hungarian peasants work as migrant farm workers in northern Germany, enjoying good wages and the company of their families. But after they witness the ill-treatment of POWs there, they return to Hungary where they are plunged into the realities of the war. (worldscinema.org)

A drama about class exploitation and murder, set in 1919. Anna (Mari Torocsik) is a shy and plain young woman who works as a maid in a privileged household. She is essentially a slave without any rights to speak of, and while she is being driven to the extremity of murder because of her brutal and uncaring treatment, the Hungarian communist revolution is building up steam in the background. (mubi.com)

When a Latin teacher publishes an essay on the Carthaginian General Hannibal, he is quickly hailed as a celebrity genius, but in reality has become an unwitting pawn of far-right politicians. (imdb)

The Tót family resides in Northern Hungary. The couple has a daughter and a son, the latter a member of the armed forces. When his weary major is ordered to take a vacation, the son talks him into a visit to his family home. Comedy endues when the Tót's go overboard trying to make things pleasant for the visiting major in hopes of an easier life for their son the soldier. (imdb)

A joke played by a group of idle pensioners leads a man to deal with secrets of his own past and that of the whole country about the Nazi years and the Holocaust, eventually resolved with a homestyle trial

A young journalist resolves to find out the reasons for a murder of an agricultural farm employee, killed eight years before. (imdb)

When a young man goes to see a doctor with a red mark on his face, it is the doctor's wife who receives him. As they talk, she offers him something to eat and comments that his way of eating is like that of her previous husband, who had died in prison many years before. It turns out that the young man has been his cellmate for a year and tells her the story of how her husband passed away. (FILMAFFINITY)

This drama about a boorish non-conformist takes place in Hungary after the war and is dulled a little by political overtones but is still an engaging story. The setting is the countryside, where an independent, landowning farmer busies himself in his free time by bedding down the women on his farm and then tossing them aside. One such ill-treated lass ends up marrying a young man who is in charge of a communal farm, a farm the womanizing "beast" of the title is later forced to join