Lajos Szabó

A Priceless Day (1979)

Irén and Attila, a not-so-young couple, are in love. All they want is a flat of their own where they could live together. Unfortunately, Hungary in the 70s is no place for dreams.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Péter Gothár
CAST:  Cecília Esztergályos  •  Pál Hetényi  •  János Derzsi  •  Judit Pogány

Irén and Attila, a not-so-young couple, are in love. All they want is a flat of their own where they could live together. Unfortunately, Hungary in the 70s is no place for dreams.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Péter Gothár
CAST:  Cecília Esztergályos  •  Pál Hetényi  •  János Derzsi  •  Judit Pogány

We're Getting Along (1981)

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 ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  László Lugossy
CAST:  József Madaras  •  Júlia Nyakó  •  Vilmos Kun  •  Lajos Szabó

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 ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  László Lugossy
CAST:  József Madaras  •  Júlia Nyakó  •  Vilmos Kun  •  Lajos Szabó

Blind Endeavour (1985)

Blind luck ties the fate of two people together.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Lívia Gyarmathy
CAST:  Andor Lukáts  •  György Dörner  •  Judit Meszléry  •  Lajos Szabó

Blind luck ties the fate of two people together.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Lívia Gyarmathy
CAST:  Andor Lukáts  •  György Dörner  •  Judit Meszléry  •  Lajos Szabó

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DIRECTION:  Sándor Mihályfy
CAST:  Levente Illyés  •  Anna Széles  •  Sándor Héjja  •  András Csiky

Bald Head for Bald Head (1972)

In this naturalistic satire enriched with burlesque, Boróka, the haircutting artist once cuts a hair so, that the customer has to be shaved bald. Sajtár Dezső wants to kill the barber, who feels to be a victim himself immediately. In his anguish he mixes up his ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Péter Bacsó
CAST:  István Gyarmati  •  Lajos Szabó  •  Erzsi Pásztor  •  Péter Haumann

In this naturalistic satire enriched with burlesque, Boróka, the haircutting artist once cuts a hair so, that the customer has to be shaved bald. Sajtár Dezső wants to kill the barber, who feels to be a victim himself immediately. In his anguish he mixes up his ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Péter Bacsó
CAST:  István Gyarmati  •  Lajos Szabó  •  Erzsi Pásztor  •  Péter Haumann

Riddance (1973)

Jutka, a young woman who works in a factory, falls in love with Andras, a university student. She pretends to be a student, to him and to his parents, and begins to live a lie. Finally she rebels against Andras and his demands and the social conventions that forced ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Márta Mészáros
CAST:  Erzsébet Kútvölgyi  •  Gábor Nagy  •  Marianna Moór  •  József Székhelyi

Jutka, a young woman who works in a factory, falls in love with Andras, a university student. She pretends to be a student, to him and to his parents, and begins to live a lie. Finally she rebels against Andras and his demands and the social conventions that forced ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Márta Mészáros
CAST:  Erzsébet Kútvölgyi  •  Gábor Nagy  •  Marianna Moór  •  József Székhelyi

It's Rain and Shine Together (1977)

The film condenses the awkwardness of country and functionary existence, consumer thinking based on paternalistic relationships into the sequence of events of 20 August, the feast of the Hungarian new loaf with sentimental irony and documentary credibility. A ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ferenc András
CAST:  Ildikó Pécsi  •  Erzsi Pásztor  •  Lajos Szabó  •  Anatol Constantin

The film condenses the awkwardness of country and functionary existence, consumer thinking based on paternalistic relationships into the sequence of events of 20 August, the feast of the Hungarian new loaf with sentimental irony and documentary credibility. A ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ferenc András
CAST:  Ildikó Pécsi  •  Erzsi Pásztor  •  Lajos Szabó  •  Anatol Constantin

Koportos (1979)

Balog Mihály, the Gypsy man from Szabolcs works in Budapest. That is where he is notified that his young wife died. Again he behaves differently from his fellow-men in the Koportos Gypsy settlement: he wants to give a beautiful, rich burial ceremony to his wife.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Lívia Gyarmathy
CAST:  Mihály Rostás  •  Ferenc Bogdán  •  Ferenc Bencze  •  János Bán

Balog Mihály, the Gypsy man from Szabolcs works in Budapest. That is where he is notified that his young wife died. Again he behaves differently from his fellow-men in the Koportos Gypsy settlement: he wants to give a beautiful, rich burial ceremony to his wife.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Lívia Gyarmathy
CAST:  Mihály Rostás  •  Ferenc Bogdán  •  Ferenc Bencze  •  János Bán