Balazs Bela Studio Movies

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

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

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

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 whole...

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

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

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

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

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

The documentary was shot in the prison for juvenile delinquents in Hungary. It does not aim at judging whether the perpetrators were convicted rightly...

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

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

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

A pretty mixed society get together in a camping area. They enjoy their vacation and do not know that two of the vacationists are demolition experts,...

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 of Pé...

Eighteen years after the failure of the revolution and freedom fighting 1848-49, the politicians of Hungary preparing for a compromise with Austria tr...

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

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 monoton...

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 s...