Péter Forgács

Most Popular Péter Forgács Trailers

Total trailers found: 20

Hungary 2011 Trailer (2012)

02 February 2012

Anthology film made as an act of protest against Hungarian government of Viktor Orban.

El perro negro Trailer (2006)

15 November 2006

Filmmaker Péter Forgács compiles home movies by a family of Catalan industrialists who have documented their lives as their homeland is besieged by labor unrest, the collapse of the monarchy, the rise of anarchism, and ultimately the Spanish Civil War.

Own Death Trailer (2008)

02 February 2008

A trip nearest to the boundaries of life and death: back and forth.

The Notebook of a Lady Trailer (1992)

01 January 1992

A young woman in high heels does gymnastics in her garden. “That’s me”, says an elderly voice on the soundtrack.

I am Von Höfler Variation on Werther Trailer (2008)

01 January 2008

How does the process of film-making—like a huge carpet, of a 250 years saga of the Hungarian von Höfler family—render the chosen subject topical, re-liveable?

Hunky Blues Trailer (2009)

04 May 2009

The internationally acclaimed director and recipient of the Erasmus Award in 2007, Péter Forgács created a documentary exploring the fate of hundred thousands of Hungarian men and women who arrived to the United States between 1890 and 1921.

Angelos' Film Trailer (2001)

09 April 2001

Angelos Papanastassiou, the man behind the camera, a story of a Greek patrician of WW2 times Athens. In the very first days of the Nazi occupation Angelos decided to record and document the Greece motherland's sufferings.

Picturesque Epochs Trailer (2018)

19 May 2018

The protagonist of "Picturesque Epochs" is Mária Gánóczy (1927-), a painter and a film aficionado who comes from a family of female artists as far back as her great-grandparents.

Víkendszerelem Trailer (1982)

06 June 1982

The Maelstrom: A Family Chronicle Trailer (1997)

01 January 1997

The Maelstrom makes extraordinary artful use of considerable cache of home movies shot in the Netherlands before and during World War II and dealing with the extended Peereboom family.

Free Fall Trailer (1996)

22 March 1996

"Free Fall" reflects to the times before the Shoah, the darkest chapter of the 20th century Hungary, based on the home movies of the talented musician, photographer and businessman, György Pető who made 8mm films from 1938.

Miss Universe 1929 - Lisl Goldarbeiter. A Queen in Wien Trailer (2006)

06 July 2006

Filmmaker Péter Forgács' engrossing documentary -- culled from home movies spanning eight decades -- chronicles the life of Austrian beauty queen Lisl Goldarbeiter: the first Miss Universe.

Bela Radics - The Cursed Guitarist Trailer (2023)

04 May 2023

A semi-documentary film about the legendary hungarian rock guitarist, Béla Radics.

The Danube Exodus Trailer (1998)

29 July 1998

In this travelogue, Forgács documents the Jewish exodus from Slovakia just before the beginning of World War II.

Wittgenstein Tractatus Trailer (1992)

01 January 1992

Forgacs's Tractatus is composed of seven short video essays that refer to one of Wittgenstein's most influential works, Tractatus Logico Philosophicus, first published in 1921.

A semmi országa Trailer (1996)

05 December 1996

The amateur films shot on 9.5mm film by László Rátz, standard bearer of the Hungarian army, constitute extraordinary documentary material on the defeat suffered by the Magyar troops during the Russian campaign, a consequence of the catastrophic alliance between the collaborationist regime in Budapest and the Third Reich.

German Unity @ Balaton Trailer (2012)

01 November 2012

German Unity @ Balaton is a poetic impression of an extraordinary postwar history of East-Europe.

Istvan Bibo's Fragments Trailer (2002)

20 May 2002

Peter Forgacs' Bibo Breviarium (Istvan Bibo's Fragments) is a look at Istvan Bibo, one of the most revered Hungarian philosophers and politicians of the 20th century.

Dusi & Jenõ Trailer (1989)

01 August 1989

The private diary of a couple in a ghostly Budapest before, during and after the Second World War, between poetry and historical re-enactment.

Free Fall Trailer (1996)

01 January 1996

Main character of AZ ÖRVÉNY is cameraman György Petö. His private films shot before and during World War II document his family, and particularly his girlfriend and later wife Eva Lengyel.