Kontroll 2003  R, 106 min.
Genre: Foreign / Thriller
aka: Control
Director: Nimrod Antal
Cast: Sandor Csanyi, Zoltan Mucsi, Csaba Pindroch, Sandor Badar, Zsolt Nagy, Bence Matyasi, Gyozo Szabo, Eszter Balla, Lajos Kovacs, Gyorgy Cserhalmi, Peter Scherer
Loner, ticket inspector Bulesti (Sandor Csanyi) never leaves the subway–an odd behavior not ignored by the police when they investigate the work of a serial killer who has begun pushing people onto the tracks in Bulesti's subway system.
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Mephisto 1981  N/R, 144 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Istvan Szabo
Cast: Klaus Maria Brandauer, Krystyna Janda, Ildiko Bansagi, Karin Boyd, Rolf Hoppe, Christine Harbort, Gyorgy Cserhalmi, Peter Andorai, Tamas Major, Ildiko Kishonti
This film won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film. It is the story of actor Hendrik Hofgren (Klaus Maria Brandauer) whose ambition to be a star is so great that he sells out to the Nazis in his effort to attain his dream.
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Perlasca: An Italian Hero 2002 N/R, 126 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Alberto Negrin
Cast: Luca Zingaretti, Jerome Anger, Amanda Sandrelli, Franco Castellano, Marco Bonini, Lorenzo Lavia, Elena Arvigo, Christiane Filangieri, Gyorgy Cserhalmi, Jean-Francois Garreaud
Based on real events surrounding Giorgio Perlasca's (Luca Zingaretti) efforts to save Jews from certain deaths in Hitler's camps, this film includes the bribes, lies, and Perlasca's impersonation of the Spanish consul–all means of surviving the Nazi occupation of Hungary.
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Zelary 2003 N/R, 150 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Ondrej Trojan
Cast: Anna Geislerova, Gyorgy Cserhalmi, Jaroslava Adamova, Jan Hrusinsky, Miroslav Donutil, Jaroslav Dusek, Iva Bittova, Anna Vertelarova, Ondrej Koval, Ivan Trojan
During World War II in the Protectorate of Bohemia-Moravie, nurse Eliska (Anna Geislerova) donates her own blood to save a mountain man, Joza (Gyorgy Cserhalmi). Later, when Eliska flees to escape the Gestapo, she heads to Joza's mountain retreat in Zelary where a strong relationship between them awaits. The film received an Academy Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film.
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| 1. Kontroll (2003)
aka: Control
2. Mephisto (1981)
3. Perlasca: An Italian Hero (2002)
4. Zelary (2003)
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