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Lajos Koltai, ASC, HSC, (born April 2, 1946 in Budapest, Hungary) is a Hungarian cinematographer and film director best known for his work with legendary Hungarian director Istvan Szabo, and Italian filmmaker Giuseppe Tornatore. He was nominated for an Academy Award in 2000 for his work on the film Malèna.
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27 October 2000
12-year-old Renato experiences three significant events on the same day: the beginning of the Second World War, getting a bike, and witnessing the arrival of the gorgeous Malèna.
28 October 1998
Musician Max Tooney goes to sell his prized Conn trumpet to a music shop, where he plays the instrument one last time.
01 January 1971
A twenty-year-old young man believes that sport and philosophical books help him to be strong enough to meet life, but his determination and will give way to depressing memories.
25 November 1990
A recently engaged man getting to know his future father-in-law better unearths clues that the man may have been a Nazi collaborator and a mass murderer.
19 October 1990
Max Baron is a Jewish advertising executive in his 20s who's still getting over the death of his wife.
20 February 1985
Set during the fading glory of the Austro-Hungarian empire, the film tells of the rise and fall of Alfred Redl, an ambitious young officer who proceeds up the ladder to become head of the Secret Police only to become ensnared in political deception.
06 April 1976
The corpulent and ageing Ivicz, once an excellent baker, works as a deliverer now. He lives alone. At the weekends following the toilsome weekdays he is the boss.
30 May 1973
Jutka, a young woman who works in a factory, falls in love with Andras, a university student. She pretends to be a student, to him and to his parents, and begins to live a lie.
05 March 1984
An oily careerist for whom becoming the highest earner is not enough: now he also wants a title of nobility.
13 September 1999
The fate of a Hungarian Jewish family throughout the 20th century.
26 July 1991
The story of a group of friends in turn of the century New York, from their early days as street hoods to their rise in the world of organized crime.
17 February 1995
A Harvard professor is lured back into the courtroom after twenty-five years to take the case of a young black man condemned to death for the horrific murder of a child.
10 January 1980
Janos and Kata are thrown together during the Second World War and forced to pose as husband and wife to hide from the Nazis.
15 December 1994
The Twenties: The German Fuhrmann family spend their holidays in Italy again. The country is full of mysteries in that time.
02 November 1995
After losing her job, making out with her soon-to-be former boss, and finding out that her daughter plans to spend Thanksgiving with her boyfriend, Claudia Larson faces spending the holiday with her unhinged family.
10 September 2002
In 1918, a young, disillusioned Adolf Hitler strikes up a friendship with a Jewish art dealer while weighing a life of passion for art vs.
29 April 1994
An airline pilot and his wife are forced to face the consequences of her alcoholism when her addictions threaten her life and their daughter's safety.
09 February 2006
Young honest public official is sworn in after his predecessor had to leave due to a corruption scandal.
22 November 2002
William Hundert is a passionate and principled Classics professor who finds his tightly-controlled world shaken and inexorably altered when a new student, Sedgewick Bell, walks into his classroom.
23 June 1985
Erzsi, living alone in Budapest, keeps up phone and letter contact with her sister Gisa in Germany. Both elderly, they’ve long grown apart in how they face aging: Gisa accepts it, while Erzsi tries to hold on to youth, encouraged by her friend Paula and by Viktor, an aging opera singer and former lover.
02 July 1997
Care-free Charlie cons his widower brother-in-law Herb into an expenses-paid luxury cruise in search of rich, lonely ladies.
26 October 1978
On his return from America, András simply cannot find his place: he has lost his wife, friends and job, and he cannot even find his way back to his former great love.
03 September 2004
Julia Lambert is a true diva: beautiful, talented, weathly and famous. She has it all - including a devoted husband who has mastermined her brilliant career - but after years of shining in the spotlight she begins to suffer from a severe case of boredom and longs for something new and exciting to put the twinkle back in her eye.
28 October 1989
An innocent man is thrust into a political power struggle in this drama. After witnessing a mob killing, New York restaurant owner Sam Paxton (Aidan Quinn) reports the crime.
10 February 2005
A Hungarian youth comes of age at Buchenwald during World War II. György Köves is 14, the son of a merchant who's sent to a forced labor camp.
17 December 1993
Frank, a retired Irish seaman, and Walter, a retired Cuban barber, are two lonely old men trapped in the emptiness of their own lives.
21 October 1971
The head of the nunnery is dying, and the members are divided in two groups as the election of the new head approaches.
30 November 1976
A financially stable family moves into a nice, new apartment, only to see the father leave them. The mother soon brings home a new 'father', Feri.
01 December 1976
During the Rákóczi War of Independence, noblewoman Julianna Géczy becomes caught between warring factions as the city of Lőcse falls under siege.
15 November 1973
This film shows us around a factory in the seventies in Hungary. In the outskirts factory of Kőbánya workers celebrate the foundation members and want to present the oldest member, Uncle Benda, now a pensioner, with a golden ring.
25 December 1996
A neurotic, twice-divorced sci-fi writer moves back in with his mother to solve his personal problems.
18 October 1989
A true story about Johann Georg Elser, a quiet carpenter who tried to assassinate Hitler with an explosive device in 1939.
09 June 2007
As Constance (Natasha Richardson) and Nina (Toni Collette) gather at the deathbed of their mother, Ann (Vanessa Redgrave), they learn for the first time that their mother lived an entire other lifetime during one evening 50 years ago.
30 November 2023
Set in 19th century Vienna, Ignac Semmelweis, a short-tempered but passionate doctor, delivers babies and carries out autopsies on a daily basis while looking for the cause of puerperal fever, the mysterious epidemic that decimates patients in the hospital.
03 March 1975
The film is a documentary-feature film based on real stories and made with amateur actors. The district pioneer secretary is assigned to find a pioneer who can play a musical instrument, has a working-class background, and studies well at school and appoint him for a one-month-long premium holiday in Britain.
11 August 1975
The film evokes the era of the 1831 cholera epidemic and the peasant uprising which followed it. The way of Doctor Balás, cholera commissioner, and district administrator Hunyor leads through the mountains of Zemplén and is lined by unburied corpses, peasants dying of the illness and of overdoses of bismuth, by the miserably starving population, the healthy digging mass-graves and by uncultivated lands.
07 March 2002
One of the most spectacular and renowned conductors of the 1930s, Wilhelm Furtwangler's reputation rivaled that of Toscanini's.
11 February 1981
A German stage actor finds unexpected success and mixed blessings in the popularity of his performance in a Faustian play as the Nazis take power in pre-WWII Germany.
26 March 1993
A rich millionaire hires a sophisticated journalist to bring his somewhat dim-witted girlfriend up to the level of his peers.
25 September 1975
When middle-aged Kata realises that her life will only be complete if she has a baby of her own, her longstanding-but-married boyfriend Joska refuses to comply.
17 August 1989
A mentally disabled man gets help from a sociopath when he tries to reunite with his dying father, who years earlier disowned him.
07 October 1982
A Budapest high school in the beginning of the 1960s. Dini suffers the torments of adolescence. His father had to leave Hungary after the uprise in 1956, and since then Dini's mother has had to take care of her two sons on her own.
30 October 1987
The life of Gaby Brimmer, a girl physically handicapped, who finally gets her goals of study and triumph.
23 April 1980
The story played by civilian players is laid in a Transdanubian village, where on the initiative of the municipality doctor the local inhabitants wish to build a social welfare home as volunteers, with the support of the local co-operative and the state farm.
22 July 1978
An interview with the Hungarian poet, János Pilinszky.
20 April 1972
Everyone is reaching retirement age. Some are happy to go, others regret that their active phase of life is over.
20 March 1992
The story shows Emma's and Böbe's fight for survival, for keeping their position in society which they achieved with hard work in the previous regime.
20 September 2002
Collection of short films the summaries of which include; a foreign man moving to Italy, getting married and having a child; a four split scene short involving plot-less images of old people with television sets for heads, a beautiful woman having sex, and overall confusion; and an old man reminiscing over his youth.
20 May 1988
A man's story parallels Hitler's rise. Austrian Klaus Schneider, wounded in World War I, recovers in the care of Dr.
27 February 2020
A cardiologist is sent into retirement, but he feels at loss without his work. He returns to his home village to work as a general practitioner.
18 September 1991
Celebrated Swedish opera star Karin Anderson is slated to appear in an internationally-telecast production of Tannhauser.
24 February 1980
The love story between a German cancer researcher and her Polish colleague that drags on for more than ten years.
23 August 1978
In 1950, when a young communist director arrives to take charge of a stud farm near the Hungarian borders, his efforts to draw on the experience of the old hands there meet with little success.
18 November 1978
Angi Vera is a young nursing assistant in a hospital. When she speaks out against the appalling conditions, she is reprimanded, but the Communist Party takes her under its wing.
01 January 1970
Documentary about the Italian men that visit Hungary to meet girls and the Hungarian women that fall in love with them.
06 December 1979
Irén and Attila, a not-so-young couple, are in love. All they want is a flat of their own where they could live together.
15 April 1977
The documentary-feature film, featuring amateur players and showing the life of three sisters in its simple dull flow of events, has grown to be the symbol of the Budapest School.