Balazs Bela Studio Movies

Using verite conventions, a young couple with a baby and a child are worn away by the monotony of their lives.

A family slowly disintegrates under various pressures in late 1970s communist Hungary.

The film depicts the lives of veterans of the 1848 Hungarian Revolution in the American Civil War, based in part on an Ambrose Bierce story. The...

Often called a “film poem” or a “film symphonie” Huszárik’s masterpiece consists of montages of horses from the...

A man becomes acquainted with the mystery of female hands during a trip.

The documentary-feature film taking place in the seventies is the "development novel" of Cséplő György, the intelligent and...

A playful portrait of a young woman who merrily roams the streets of Budapest. A New Wave love letter in motion.

A man, a woman, an afternoon, a city, and an unspoken, hopeful desire to find love by way of the personal ads. A milestone of Hungarian cinema, Elek...

A film study in which the symbol of flight which contradicts human limitations inspires an emotional rhythm of scenes varying along three lines: the...

Three people live together without having anything to do with each other. The macho father used to have a shooting gallery which he had to sell. Yet...

Huszárik's graduation film was another short entitled Groteszk (Grotesque) in 1963 about a strange train voyage of an artist carrying his own...

Ostensibly a non-narrative study of various aspects of a rural winter, this short film by one of modern Hungarian cinema’s greatest visual...

Documentary about the Italian men that visit Hungary to meet girls and the Hungarian women that fall in love with them.

This film of three parts recalls memories from World War II. The titles of the parts are: Impartially, Terrified and Like a scream.

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...

According to Peter Brook, all that is needed for an act of theatre to be engaged is for a man to walk across an empty space whilst someone else is...

The footage was shot in the writer's room a few days after his death. Everything in the room was untouched. The poet György Petri reads from one...

Lajos Mezei is a middle-aged, insignificant, average man. He works at the post office sorting letters with a machine. His life is but a series...

A Hungarian jew is forced to give a false testimony on his relatives in WW2 Hungary.