Marcell Jankovics Movies

A traditional Hungarian poetic fairytale that describes the epic adventures of a young shepherd through love, war, magic and death.

A horse goddess gives birth to three powerful brothers who set out into the Underworld to save three princesses from three evil dragons and reclaim...

Short Gusztáv cartoon.

Animated version of a famous Hungarian epic tale by János Arany. Through the story of Miklós Toldi, we witness a brutal young man...

Jankovics's adaptation of the eponymous play is divided into multiple parts, and depicts the creation and fall of Man throughout history.

The film is an artistically spare depiction of the Greek myth of Sisyphus, sentenced to eternally roll a stone up a mountain. The story is presented...

Divided into four sections, "Song" is inspired by the Siberian and Finno-Ugric legends about Creation, in which the world begins with characters who...

A young peasant boy stands up to tyranny, aided by his trusting friend - a goose.

Metaphor about art, about time, or how art uses the artist's life in his quest to create his work, in which he was pouring his talent, his vigor, and...

A lonely phone searches for another phone to talk to

No such film has ever been made about Marcell Jankovics - the renowned film director, cultural historian and honored "Artist of the Nation" - which...

The stepmother sends the hard-working girl to serve somebody. After a year she returns home with gold, silver and other treasures. As the bad-hearted...

A short dynamic animation about a man struggling not to drown.

Each one of the poor man’s four sons learns a craft. The dragon kidnaps the princess. The four young men bring the princess back to the king...

Twenty well-known Hungarian artists - 10 right-wing (said to be) and 10 left-liberal (said to be) writers, directors, actors, musicians talk about...

A young man calls his friend, goes to war, returns wounded and reunites with his friend.

The history of numbers from simple addition to the development of complex mathematical items.

Satire on the vicissitudes of a politician who should inaugurate a bridge, and the problems he finds. The inauguration of a new bridge is...

Short Gusztáv cartoon.