25 Fireman's Street 1973  N/R, 97 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Istvan Szabo
Cast: Lucyna Winnicka, Margit Makay, Karoly Kovacs, Rita Bekes, Erzsi Pasztor, Edit Lenkey, Andras Balint, Zoltan Zelk, Peter Muller, Janos Jani
A Hungarian apartment building is to be demolished. As the time for demolition nears, the residents reflect on their pasts–including World War II's stories and changes brought about by the war as well as from the 1956 revolt. Visionary.
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Apa 1966 N/R, 95 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: Father
Director: Istvan Szabo
Cast: Andras Balint, Miklos Gabor, Klari Tolnay, Dani Erdelyi, Kati Solyom, Zsuzsa Rathonyi, Zsuzsa Balogh, Rita Bekes, Judit Halasz, Anna Nagy
Young Tako's (Dani Erdelyi) father was killed near the end of World War II, and Tako has made a hero of his father in his fantasies. As an adult, Tako (Andras Balint) meets and falls in love with a Jewish woman (Kati Solyom) and finds out about the horrors of the Holocaust. He now seeks to find out what kind of man his father really was.
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Gloomy Sunday 1999  N/R, 114 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Rolf Schubel
Cast: Joachim Krol, Erika Marozsan, Stefano Dionisi, Ben Becker, Rolf Becker, Andras Balint, Geza Boros, Ilse Zielstorff, Julia Zsolnai, Sebastian Koch, Urike Grote, Ferenc Bacs
Set in Budapest during the 1930s, piano player Andras (Ben Becker) works for restaurant owner Laszlo (Joachim Krol) and becomes part of a romantic triangle involving Laszlo and the restaurant's hostess, Ilona (Erika Marozsan). Andras plays the haunting song, "Gloomy Sunday," and the legend begins that people who hear the tune kill themselves. Behind the legend is the fact that the suicides are taking place in a world where the Nazi death machine is rolling across Hungary.
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| 1. 25 Fireman's Street (1973)
2. Apa (1966)
aka: Father
3. Gloomy Sunday (1999)
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