Károly Makk

Reconstructions of unrealized Hungarian films in cooperation with the greatest Hungarian film directors.

Luca regularly visits her bedridden mother-in-law. Luca's husband, János, has been arrested on a trumped up political charge, and Luca does...

A brothel in a small Hungarian town becomes the home of a medical student after his favorite working girls find out he's out of rent money. Trouble...

Under pressure from his publisher, Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky gets work on his latest piece, 'Rouletenberg'. In the 27 days it takes for him...

Liliomfi is a 1954 Hungarian comedy film directed by Károly Makk. It was entered into the 1955 Cannes Film Festival. Set in the "Golden Era"...

This sarcastic drama is taken from the popular Hungarian novel by Tibor Dery. A terminally ill writer (Jozef Kroner) of national prominence watches...

Three people – a returned prisoner of war, his beautiful second wife, and the possessive, hunchbacked spinster who is his sister-in-law by his...

Insulted when his screenwriter wife writes a leading role for a younger man, aging Broadway idol Fitz Wynn disguises himself as a handsome young...

Political and sexual repression in Hungary, just after the revolution of 1956. In 1958, the body of Eva Szalanczky, a political journalist, is...

Iván is living in exile from Hungary when he receives word that an old flame is ill. His return to Budapest rekindles old memories and reopens...

Karoly Makk's heartbreaking story of two unmarried sisters who cast wistful glances back at their lives, but still believe in hope and love, earned...

The young worker Tóth Gáspár gets into hospital with stomachache. During the night his state is worsening. The doctor on duty,...

Bene, tired of the professional battles of engineers and trying to escape a ship-wrecked marriage, asks to be transferred to the country. The gravest...

Sebők Zoltán, the brain surgeon, performed a secret abortion on his lover and the woman died. The man waiting for the autopsy (and his...

Daddy Kárász, the stakhanovist worker, complains in a television interview about the fact that his family, consisting of many members,...

Péter and Pál, two notorious skirt hunters competing in wooing Oana, a pretty Romanian girl on the beach at Tihany. A couple of days...

1958. In the cell of the condemned, seven men await the signs of an approaching execution. All of them recall their pasts and envision their...

Bene, tired of the professional battles of engineers and trying to escape a ship-wrecked marriage, asks to be transferred to the country. The gravest...

The flat of Doctor Bartha is wetting, the Communal Management Enterprise does not act, the doctor and his wife are at the edge of divorce....

The chroniclers are diligently scribbling the history of life and deeds of the virtuous and wise King Matthias, who, in the meantime, sneaks out of...

Sebők Zoltán, the brain surgeon, performed a secret abortion on his lover and the woman died. The man waiting for the autopsy (and his...

1958. In the cell of the condemned, seven men await the signs of an approaching execution. All of them recall their pasts and envision their...

Anika, the daughter of the Greek partisan refugee and the Hungarian medical student, Zoltán fall in passionate love. But Anika's mother wants...

The spring of 1919. Karikás Frigyes reorganises brigade 39 at the Tisza. His most devoted soldiers are Korbély János and his...

Karoly Makk's heartbreaking story of two unmarried sisters who cast wistful glances back at their lives, but still believe in hope and love, earned...

Political and sexual repression in Hungary, just after the revolution of 1956. In 1958, the body of Eva Szalanczky, a political journalist, is...

Venice Film Festival 1954

Iván is living in exile from Hungary when he receives word that an old flame is ill. His return to Budapest rekindles old memories and reopens...

It deals with the alleged Western sabotage of Hungarian oil production.

Small-town politics (corruption etc.) in Hungary.

During World War II Carlotta, the circus owner maintains herself, her lover and her rather run-down circus-team by illegal man-smuggling. In the year...

The film has a broken meaning, the last time he was a proofreader for a book publisher, he is now unemployed. Ever since he was a child, he has...

50 min. TV movie directed by Károly Makk, based on a short story by Tibor Déry (director-writer team of the 1971 classic "Szerelem")....

Peti, the young parachutist starts concurring with his fellows during the training sessions: who dares to fall free longer? Orodán, his coach...

A hunting party arrives at a lodge in the Tatra mountains in Slovakia, where one woman in the party had “accidentally” shot and killed...

A hunting party arrives at a lodge in the Tatra mountains in Slovakia, where one woman in the party had “accidentally” shot and killed...

It deals with the alleged Western sabotage of Hungarian oil production.

Miklós Jancsó makes fun of his reputation for creating exceptional visuals in "A nagy agyhalál AKA The Great Brain Death." It is...

In May 1919 in a small rural town beside Salgótarján the local high society wants to get the power back with the leadership of dr....

Satire from the makers of hungarian classic Love (1971): director Károly Makk and writer Tibor Déry. Made for TV.

Small-town politics (corruption etc.) in Hungary.

Satire from the makers of hungarian classic Love (1971): director Károly Makk and writer Tibor Déry. Made for TV.