István Sztankay Movies

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

Karinthy's best-known and most popular work to date is So You Write. It was this work that made him famous, and it was with this work that he had his...

Mihai Toth worked for forty years as a watchman in a timber warehouse. On his last watch, there was a fire: the warehouse burned to the ground. The...

Story of a young teacher starting to work in rural Hungary

The film depicts the period between 1945-60 through the life of a communist couple. Barna Judit, just released from a concentration camp and...

Gréti, a German shepherd, searches for her missing puppy.

Mrs. Fazekas and her three sons live in a tenement house in the outskirts. The eldest son, Fecó, is saving money in order to buy a washing...

The story of Bálint Balassi, the poet and warrior. The scene is Hungary at the end of the 16th century. The soldiers stationed at the castles...

Queen Guinevere sadly complains to her beloved handmaiden Peggy that her husband, King Arthur, has neglected her for years. The King spends all his...

This ironic comedy is set in the god-forsaken Kiskúnbékás, at the end of the fifties. There are no jobs, the town's "golden...

On the crowded train, the workers entertain each other by telling stories.

A crusading newspaper reporter covers the Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956. Initially critical of the communists, the feature later espouses the...

Lohmann's son is kidnapped. The un-known kidnappers get a thirty-thousand-jewel from the West German millionaire as ransom. The eager police...

A past world is revived in the little cottage in the outskirts, next to the housing blocks under construction. Tamburás, the old hobo collects...

Józsi, a sailor who once traveled the world, dock worker and stable boy lives in the small village of Nyírmadocsa. From here he sets...

Juli is a 17-year-old student who takes a summer job in a local chemical factory. She is befriended by Piri, a girl with an unsavory reputation who...

Five old men and a kid are travelling in a train's cabin without purpose. They travel because it's free and they don't have another place to stay....

Végh Márta, the teacher is looking for her student Vadász Ica in the Buda villa, but she only finds the tenant, Mrs. Paár...