Movies: Ferenc Bessenyei

  • 1956
    The Bitter Truth

    The Bitter Truth (1956)

    The Bitter Truth

    01956HD

    Sztankó János, the freshly appointed director of a company that builds agricultural factories meets his former classmate, Palócz. Palócz is just released from the prison where he got on made-up charges. Sztankó suddenly decides to employ the engineer...

    The Bitter Truth
  • 1967
    The Aga's Testament

    The Aga's Testament (1967)

    The Aga's Testament

    7.11967HD

    In 1585 the Turks and Vallons are looting the Látrány region....

    The Aga's Testament
  • 1953
    The Sea has Risen

    The Sea has Risen (1953)

    The Sea has Risen

    5.51953HD

    March 15, 1848; the revolution breaks out in the town of Pest. Yet at café Pilvax, in among he revolutionary youth, there is the informer of the imperial court as well. Hearing the news of the attack led by Jellasics, the inhabitants of the villages ...

    The Sea has Risen
  • 1951
    Full Steam, Ahead!

    Full Steam, Ahead! (1951)

    Full Steam, Ahead!

    01951HD

    Pongrácz, an employee of the railway company and participant of the movement called "two thousand tons", is killed in what looks to be an accident. Szabó, his friend, having found the workbook, goes on with the fight....

    Full Steam, Ahead!
  • 1952
    The Storm

    The Storm (1952)

    The Storm

    01952HD

    Vörös Hajnal (Red Dawn), a co-operative is the venue of skylarking, while the storm destroys the wheat which is to be harvested soon. Árendás, a middle-peasant, voices severe accusations against members of the co-operative: out of negligence, they fa...

    The Storm
  • 1966
    The Golden Kite

    The Golden Kite (1966)

    The Golden Kite

    71966HD

    The film is put at the beginning of the century in Sárszeg, following the humiliation and collapse of a high-school teacher....

    The Golden Kite
  • 1956
    Professor Hannibal

    Professor Hannibal (1956)

    Professor Hannibal

    5.11956HD

    A school teacher becomes a momentary hero after having rescued a stuffed-bird from a school incident....

    Professor Hannibal
  • 1970
    Judgement

    Judgement (1970)

    Judgement

    4.71970HD

    The film is a historic parable about the topicality of revolution. 1514. The peasants' uprising is over, Dózsa has been arrested. Werbőczy tries to get the imprisoned peasant leader deny the revolution and offers him the lives of his people in exchan...

    Judgement
  • 1966
    Fig-Leaf

    Fig-Leaf (1966)

    Fig-Leaf

    81966HD

    On the main square of Halmaz a naked sculpture of a boy is unveiled. The editor-in-chief of the local paper launches an attack against the scandalous implementation of "bourgeois pornography". The youth of the town, among them Ancsa, daughter of the ...

    Fig-Leaf
  • 1976
    Labyrinth

    Labyrinth (1976)

    Labyrinth

    01976HD

    The film director starts shooting his film about the manager of a large corporation who committed suicide for mysterious reasons. As the cumbersome process of making a film goes along, everybody involved in it starts having differing opinions of the ...

    Labyrinth
  • 1965
    Abhorrence

    Abhorrence (1965)

    Abhorrence

    101965HD

    Nelli, the icy, introverted farm girl, needs to find a husband following her father's death. She accepts the attentions of the noisy Takaró Sanyi, although she is more attracted to his silent and modest younger brother....

    Abhorrence
  • 1987
    The Other Person

    The Other Person (1987)

    The Other Person

    01987HD

    1944. At the end of the war ensign Bojtár gets from the captivity of the partisans into that of the Hungarian Nazi and he escapes at the price of a quasi-murder. He has to hide, the more so because his victim did not die and searches for him....

    The Other Person
  • 1961
    Summer Rain

    Summer Rain (1961)

    Summer Rain

    01961HD

    Miskei, the popular and dynamic president of a co-op falls in love with Mari, the attractive wife of the elderly Pató. The deeply feeling woman is fed up with the service beside the haughty land holder, she is longing for tenderness and a child. The ...

    Summer Rain
  • 1977
    A szerelem bolondjai

    A szerelem bolondjai (1977)

    A szerelem bolondjai

    01977HD

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    A szerelem bolondjai
  • 1960
    Be Good All Your Life

    Be Good All Your Life (1960)

    Be Good All Your Life

    7.71960HD

    A moving story of a bright and sensitive schoolboy growing up in an old, established boarding school in the city of Debrecen in eastern Hungary....

    Be Good All Your Life
  • 1972
    The Black City

    The Black City (1972)

    The Black City

    01972HD

    Feature film version of the 1971 series....

    The Black City
  • 1966
    Light behind the Shutter

    Light behind the Shutter (1966)

    Light behind the Shutter

    01966HD

    Torday Géza, a new engineer arrives at the ammunition factory disguised as if manufacturing camping gears. His appearance upsets existing patterns. The director sells the products at a low price in the West. In the meantime diversionaries attempt to ...

    Light behind the Shutter
  • 1961
    The Brute

    The Brute (1961)

    The Brute

    6.11961HD

    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...

    The Brute
  • 1965
    Skylark

    Skylark (1965)

    Skylark

    8.31965HD

    Based on a novel by Dezso Kosztolani, this Hungarian drama is set at the turn of the 20th century. A young, homely woman lives at home with her mother and retired father. Because of all the care the girl provides for her parents, the couple becomes d...

    Skylark
  • 1953
    Under the City

    Under the City (1953)

    Under the City

    01953HD

    1952. The workers who have performed the reconstruction of the bridges are now needed at the construction works of the underground railway. During admission they are diluted with elements of doubtful fame and many of them are in a bad mood for the wa...

    Under the City