László Csákányi

Acting

László Csákányi

Born — Died

1921-01-13 — 1992-11-03

Place of birth

Güssing, Burgenland, Austria

Known for

Acting

Credits

58 titles

Known for

Film credits

1990s · 4 titles

1980s · 11 titles

The Little Fox poster
7.6

A tale about a little fox Vuk from the novel of the famous Hungarian writer István Fekete.

The Little Fox

1981

The Treasure of Swamp Castle poster
7.7

Szaffi is a full-length animated feature based on Mór Jókai’s short books The Gypsy Baron (A cigánybáró) and Szaffi. It has adventure, and treasure, and love, and a little black cat, and a war, and picturesque villains - a governor with a pressure release valve in his skull and a fat pig-loving baron, and of course, the good gypsies.

The Treasure of Swamp Castle

1985

The Stationmaster Meets His Match poster
7.7

The story of Bendegúz, the teenage boy who never succeeds in anything and about whom everybody's first though is "I wish you had been hanged when you were born!" drops out of school and becomes a cowboy. He works for the Stationmaster whose cows he has to graze by the railway. Despite his goodwill and kindheartedness he always manages to spoil everything he touches. No matter his wit, he gets into humiliating situations and regularly fights with the Ugly Witch (the Stationmaster's mother-in-law). However his good spirit and cheerfulness never leave him.

The Stationmaster Meets His Match

1980

Captain of the Forest poster
8.1

This entertaining film highlights the importance of integrity, justice, and appreciation for the environment. The compassionate and wise Captain is the hero, who is trying to stop long-time troublemaker and master of disguise Zero the Cat as he plans his biggest coup ever. Helping the Captain along the way are the bright Constable Eleméri Ede and seasoned secret agent Góliát. The resourceful Gólíat succeeds in locating Zero's hiding place, where he overhears part of Zero's newest plan. Although unable to get all the details, Gólíat reports to the station and it becomes clear that stopping Zero will be quite a challenge.

Captain of the Forest

1988

A Harum-Scarum Family poster
6.8

The intellectual family Faragó lives a bit busy life, but ensures complete autonomy for its members in a tiny flat in Budapest, while the newly rich Belvizis in the neighbourhood have a luxury apartment and a conventional and purposeful life, sentencing their only daughter for solitude.

A Harum-Scarum Family

1981

Minden egér szereti a sajtot poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Minden egér szereti a sajtot

1981

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Csupajóvár

1980

A nagymama poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

A nagymama

1986

A hivatásos szűz poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

A hivatásos szűz

1988

Hol colt, hol nem colt poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Hol colt, hol nem colt

1980

The Philadelphia Attraction poster
8.5

As a last chance in his career, the young acrobat with a broken leg, Sajek Oszkár, attempts to obtain the wonderful secret from the retired old artist, Uncle Binder Lipi, a secret which was a world hit.

The Philadelphia Attraction

1984

1970s · 14 titles

The Emperor's Visit poster
10.0

Napoleon's army besieges Győr. Mr. Léner, the grain merchant, is deeply hoping for the French emperor's victory, hoping an alliance with him could assure Hungary's independence from the Habsburg rule.

The Emperor's Visit

1977

It's all Moonshine poster
10.0

Hungary in the 1930s. The world suddenly changes around the peaceful office-clerk and regular, average petit-burgeois Kornél Cassius. Friends and relatives turn up in his home, who soon establish themselves there and even take the upper hand. They continue to arrive in increasing numbers, and turn the well-known objects and patterns of relationships upside down.

It's all Moonshine

1979

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Mikrobi

1975

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Mikrobi

1975

A Lad on White Horse poster
10.0

"Don't give up your dream" - this is how Demjén Ferenc's song goes and Gyuri darts along the endless fields on a white horse. The young crane-operator lives in a small larder-room, where he has to hang his chair on the wall and the tap drips. He has to share his mornings with his two dream "man-hunters", his father and his brother, who feel that he does not belong to them because of his desires and ambitions.

A Lad on White Horse

1973

Mattie the Goose-Boy poster
7.1

A young peasant boy stands up to tyranny, aided by his trusting friend - a goose.

Mattie the Goose-Boy

1977

Hi, Junior! poster
7.4

Everyone loves little Junior, but nobody has time for him. So Junior decides to find Time with the help of his friends - dwarves.

Hi, Junior!

1971

Junior Jr. Comes poster
8.0

Öcsi is going to have a little brother. The little child is sulking, he is deeply hurt because he learns the great secret not from his parents but his best friend, Évike.

Junior Jr. Comes

1972

A Very Moral Night poster
5.9

A brothel in a small Hungarian town becomes the home of a medical student after his favorite working girls find out he's out of rent money. Trouble brews as they learn his mother is coming for a visit and they must transform the house.

A Very Moral Night

1977

Forduljon Psmithhez poster
NR

A young man offers his services through a newspaper advertisement: Mr Psimth takes care of everything. A man approaches him and asks him to steal his aunt's precious brilliant necklace. Mr.Psmith arrives at the castle and realises that all the guests there want the jewels. The young man exposes the company and takes a wife instead of the necklace.

Forduljon Psmithhez

1975

Régi idők mozija poster
NR

The film brings to life the stars of cinema of yesteryear, heart-wrenchingly poignant or even comic scenes, and in the shades that emerge, worlds are built and collapsed. The cinema auditorium, the auditorium, the ground floor, the hotel room, are the setting for special atmospheres.

Régi idők mozija

1972

Pikemen poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Pikemen

1975

Aranyborjú poster
NR

In modern Hungary, con artist Bender Oszkár and his motley crew - Barangó and a band of small-time schemers - embark on a series of outrageous scams to track down an “illegal” millionaire and seize ten million for themselves. As they exploit every trick in the book - fake charities, crooked roulette tables, forged documents - their madcap pursuit of easy riches exposes the absurdities and corruptions of contemporary life, with Bender’s fate hanging on whether his “great maneuver” will pay off or blow up in his face.

Aranyborjú

1974

Rab ember fiai poster
9.0

Transylvania during the reign of the great prince Mihály Apafi I. The Turk asks Prince Apafi for another tribute, and the Prince sends him two hundred gold pieces with Kristoff Szitáry. His two sons accompanied him halfway. On the way, they stop at the house of the caliph Pisliczar and spend the night there, and in the morning only Kristóf Szitáry continues his journey to Oradea. The Pasha is happy to receive him, but as soon as he opens the bags of money, stones and pieces of horseshoe fall out.

Rab ember fiai

1979

1960s · 17 titles

No artwork available
NR

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Amit nem látott a kamera

1962

The Wizard poster
7.0

Amazing adventures of a little boy and his friend, the great wizard Chili Chala.

The Wizard

1969

The Aga's Testament poster
7.4

In 1585 the Turks and Vallons are looting the Látrány region.

The Aga's Testament

1967

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Májusi körhinta

1962

Germinal poster
7.8

Dismissed from the railroads in 1863 for his union activities, Etienne Lantier found a job at the Voreux coal mine. But work was hard, wages were low and safety left much to be desired. Lantier tried to organize the miners into a union. When mine manager Hennebeau refused to negotiate, the workers launched a general strike, which ended with the intervention of the troops.

Germinal

1963

On Home Grounds poster
8.7

This ironic comedy is set in the god-forsaken Kiskúnbékás, at the end of the fifties. There are no jobs, the town's "golden team", who once were third class national soccer players have scattered

On Home Grounds

1969

A Hungarian Nabob 2: Karpathy Zoltan poster
7.2

On the novel by Mór Jókai. The first half of the XVIII century. Several decades of life of a noble family Karpati.

A Hungarian Nabob 2: Karpathy Zoltan

1966

Sweet and Bitter poster
9.0

At the beginning of the thirties the sour, boring life of the Hungarian small town is enlivened by a charity action: with the lead of the beautiful wife of the attorney funds are raised for the orphans.

Sweet and Bitter

1966

Egy ember, aki nincs poster
10.0

During a mining accident, the police arrest the sole survivor on suspicion of murder, whose pickaxe is stained with the blood of one of the victims. The investigation reveals that the identity card found on the victim belongs to another person, that the collapse was deliberate and that the miner believed to be the victim has escaped.

Egy ember, aki nincs

1964

Törékeny boldogság poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Törékeny boldogság

1966

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Isten óvd a királyt

1968

A Certain Major Benedek poster
8.0

On the eve of World War II, Major Benedek Zoltán is an embodiment of the service regulations in the army. He only discloses his feelings towards Anna, his brother's widow. An investigation is conducted in the regiment to identify Communists.

A Certain Major Benedek

1960

Haber's Photo Shop poster
7.2

A priest who has been set free from prison recently joins a spy organization.

Haber's Photo Shop

1963

No artwork available
7.0

A "fusspot" material handler begins courting the daughter of a supposed "attaché". This leads to complications, but in the end everything is sorted out.

Az attasé lánya

1963

Tök az adu poster
NR

A barber goes for a walk on an average Sunday morning, and end up winning an other guy's wife on card.

Tök az adu

1967

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Bolondgombák

1968

No artwork available
7.0

Drapp Tamás, metro-driver inherits an American salami-factory worth a hundred thousand dollars from an unknown relative abroad.

The Heir

1969

1950s · 6 titles

Fever poster
9.0

Set between the First and Second World Wars, a “tale of an industrialist's rise to power and his destruction through his own greed” - BFI.

Fever

1957

The Day of Wrath poster
10.0

In May 1919 in a small rural town beside Salgótarján the local high society wants to get the power back with the leadership of dr. Máriáss, exploiting the outside attack launched against the Republic of Councils.

The Day of Wrath

1953

A Window on the Sky poster
8.0

Mrs. Fazekas and her three sons live in a tenement house in the outskirts. The eldest son, Fecó, is saving money in order to buy a washing machine for his mother, while her other two sons spend time by hanging around and playing tricks.

A Window on the Sky

1959

The Empire Gone With A Sneeze poster
7.5

The tyrannical king is afraid of his people. He can only find peace if everyone wishes him well when he sneezes. Catchpoles raid the country and give orders what the king wants.

The Empire Gone With A Sneeze

1956

Dani poster
7.0

Dani, the few-month-old little boy born outside marriage is left by Eszter in the lap of her companion on the train. The widowed Aranka takes him willingly to her. The child is already ten years old and has a good life with Aranka. Then Géza enters their life and he does not welcome the child of someone else.

Dani

1957

Nyugati övezet poster
7.0

Prof. Laurent Akush from the Institute of Geophysics is working on a device that can be used to locate coal underground. For successful work he needs a tube XCX13, it is available in the West, but foreign firms sabotage the supply of the device. In his institute there is an enemy engaged in sabotage, but the professor does not believe in enemies. He believes that this is propaganda, science is above ideology, and that "scientists are made of a different dough." Laurent Akush receives an invitation to the international geological congress in Berlin, there he hopes to meet an old American friend, the scientist McLane. He takes with him his assistant Ferenc Ervish and a young Stakhanovite worker, Ishvan Kadosh. The professor does not yet know that in Berlin, Colonel Thompson of American intelligence is preparing a trap for him.

Nyugati övezet

1952

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