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2) White palms
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Hungarian
Description
Having suffered as a boy under a brutal Communist-era coach, Hungarian gymnast Miklos moves to Canada years later in search of a new start.
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (154 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Hungarian
Description
The film follows a man, his daughter, and their horse as they struggle to survive during hard times in the late nineteenth century. The idea for the film came from the story about Nietzsche's supposed breakdown upon witnessing a Turin carriage driver whip his horse. The film focuses on the question of what happened next for the horse and its owners.
Series
Publisher
Facets Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Language
Hungarian
Description
A large, claustrophobic apartment is the setting for this intense chamber drama. In this dense setting, the inhabitants of the apartment reveal their darkest secrets, fears, obsessions and hostilities.
5) White god
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Hungarian
Description
When young Lili is forced to give up her beloved dog Hagen, deemed 'unfit' by the State, she and the dog begin a dangerous journey back toward each other. The one-time house pet has learned much, not all good, in his journey through the streets and animal control centers, as he leads a pack of 'unfit' dogs to bite the hands that beat them.
Publisher
Kino Lorber, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Hungarian
Description
"...[A] wildly original action-comedy in which two teenaged boys living with disabilities find escape from their humdrum lives. They are enlisted by a gruff ex-con to be his accomplices...as wheelchair hit men! Thrust into a surreal world of gangsters and guns, the partnership soon blossoms into friendship as their mentor reveals a soft heart beneath his tough exterior and the boys help him come to terms with his own disability"--Container.
7) Kontroll
Publisher
distributed by Thinkfilm
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Hungarian
Description
The Budapest subway system, the world's second oldest, is a dark, labyrinthine netherworld as vast and various as the city above it. The beleaguered ticket inspectors or 'controllers', assigned in teams to various sections of the system, have the thankless job to ensure that no passengers ride without paying. This is their story.
8) White God
Publisher
Video Services Corp
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Hungarian
Description
When young Lili is forced to give up her beloved dog Hagen, deemed 'unfit' by the State, she and the dog begin a dangerous journey back toward each other. The one-time house pet has learned much, not all good, in his journey through the streets and animal control centers, as he leads a pack 'unfit' dogs to bite the hands that beat them.
Publisher
Facets Video
Pub. Date
c2006, p2000
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 145 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Hungarian
Description
A circus arrives in a small village in Hungary. Instead of exotic animals and acrobats, it features jars of medical anomalies. It creates tension in the village as a shadowy figure incites violence among its inhabitants.
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
[2012], p2007
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (132 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Hungarian
Description
Lonely railway worker Maloin leads a simple, humdrum life with his teenage daughter and high-strung wife at the edge of an infinite sea. He barely notices the world around him, and has already accepted its slow and inevitable deterioration. His inner life is suddenly thrown into chaos after he stumbles upon a deadly business transaction that leaves him with a money-stuffed suitcase and guilty conscious for a crime he didn't commit.
Publisher
Distributed by KOCH Vision
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 140 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Hungarian
Description
A teenage Jewish boy from Budapest finds himself in turmoil as Hitler's Final Solution becomes policy throughout Europe. Taken from his family and sent to a concentration camp, his existence becomes a surreal adventure in adversity in order to survive.
13) Hiccup =: Hukkle
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (75 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Hungarian
Description
A mesmerizing symphony of sight and sound that chronicles a series of mysterious interconnected events both idyllic and sinister, from an elderly man's hiccup (or hukkle) to a microscopic menagerie of animals.
Publisher
Facets Video
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (82 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in
Language
Hungarian
Description
"The last of Béla Tarr's trio of domestic dramas, THE PREFAB PEOPLE follows the day-to-day struggle of a young couple trying to make a better life. The husband seeks escape from his monotonous job, while the wife needs more help from her husband to raise the family. Along with FAMILY NEST and THE OUTSIDER, this film explores the struggles of everyday life in a gripping documentary style"--Container.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Hungarian
Description
October 1944, Auschwitz-Birkenau. Saul Ausländer is a Hungarian member of the Sonderkommando, the group of Jewish prisoners isolated from the camp and forced to assist the Nazis in the machinery of large-scale extermination. While working in one of the crematoriums, Saul discovers the body of a boy he takes for his son. As the Sonderkommando plans a rebellion, Saul decides to carry out an impossible task: save the child's body from the flames, find...
16) Jupiter's moon
Series
Publisher
Icarus Films
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (129 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Hungarian
Description
Aryan, a young Syrian refugee, is shot while trying to cross the Hungarian border. While treating his wounds, a doctor at the refugee camp discovers that Aryan has gained the extraordinary talent of levitating at will. The corrupt doctor sees an opportunity and offers to smuggle Aryan out of the camp if, in return, he helps him make some money by using his new miraculous gift.
17) 1945
Publisher
Menemsha Films
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Hungarian
Description
"On a summer day in 1945, an Orthodox man and his grown son return to a village in Hungary while the villagers prepare for the wedding of the town clerk's son. The townspeople-- suspicious, remorseful, fearful, and cunning-- expect the worst and behave accordingly. The town clerk fears the men may be heirs of the village's deported Jews and expects them to demand their illegally acquired property back"--Container.
18) Son of Saul
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Blu-ray edition.
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray disc (approximately 107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Hungarian
Description
October 1944, Auschwitz-Birkenau. Saul Auslñder is a Hungarian member of the Sonderkommando, the group of Jewish prisoners isolated from the camp and forced to assist the Nazis in the machinery of large-scale extermination. While working in one of the crematoriums, Saul discovers the body of a boy he takes for his son. As the Sonderkommando plans a rebellion, Saul decides to carry out an impossible task: save the child's body from the flames, find...
Publisher
Greenwich Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Hungarian
Description
A hauntingly provocative psychological thriller that is Hungary's official entry for Best International Feature Film at the Academy Awards. Mr̀ta, a 40-year-old neurosurgeon, falls in love. She leaves her shining American career behind and returns to Budapest to start a new life with the man she loves. But she waits for him at the Liberty Bridge in vain, he does not appear at their rendezvous. Mr̀ta starts to search for him desperately, but when...
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