Sándor Sára Movies

A documentary about forced labor of Hungarians in the Soviet Union

The Christmas of 1944. The Pásztor family (father, mother, four daughters and a grandchild), are spending the holidays at their country farm....

Reconstructions of unrealized Hungarian films in cooperation with the greatest Hungarian film directors.

The loving couple of this grotesque parable parody of the Kádár-regime, Mária and István row to an uninhabited, idyllic...

Mihály, a retired foundryman has brought up his sons in a very disciplined and strict way, and as a result they have become a doctor, an...

A group of plate-layers are packing the stone-bed under the rail with their pickaxes. They swing their picks in a coordinated, rhythmic way, thereby...

During WW II, a Hungarian child in a concentration camp is saved and raised by a Polish family. After 19 years, the young woman publishes a letter in...

In the summer of 1944 soldier Csorba is rewarded with furlough at a price of having committed a murder. He escapes. He tries to get to the heights of...

The first signs of autumn are seen in a landscape along a river. Some villagers are stacking a bed of stone blocks on the river-bank to avoid more...

The story of the film takes place in 1929 in a model prison providing a kind of reflection how society works out there. Udvardi, the weakling and...

Sándor Sára's meditation on loneliness and the human condition.

Summer of 1956. In the small town in the Hungarian country-side, during the time the chief of police spends in a course in Budapest, Rigó...

An action packed, brightly colored film depicting the adventures of a six-year-old boy attending school for the first time. He befriends a little...

This film constructs an anguished hymn to peace using pieces of movie newscasts, photographs, and monuments about those who have fallen in the Great...

The opera-film, as opposed to Gluck's Vienna version, is a recollection of the ancient tragic Greek myth. Orpheus, who is able to defeat Hades with...

Man and his environment.

People who live on farms in seclusion far away from any civilization go to see a performance of Shakespeares Twelfth Night by the Universitas...

A five-episode cinema version of Chronicle(1982)

One of the longest films ever made