Gyula Maár

Directing

Gyula Maár

Born 1934-08-02 · Budapest, Hungary

He was a Hungarian film director and screenwriter. He directed 25 films between 1966 and 2007. His 1975 film, Mrs. Dery Where Are You? won the award for Best Actress (Mari Törőcsik) at the 1976 Cannes Film Festival. In 1986, his film Első kétszáz évem was entered into the 36th Berlin International Film Festival. In 1993, his film Whoops was entered into the 43rd Berlin International Film Festival.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Whoops poster
7.0

Ede (Dezso Garas) is in his sixties, and he is full of uncertainty about how he and his wife Kati (Mari Torocsik) will fare in the new post-communist regime in Hungary. At least before, he had some idea what he needed to do to get by, and even if he never made much money with his myriad schemes, they got by. Kati has got a real bug in her ear about their livelihood, and is hounding him to get into the spirit of the new system. This is troubling enough for the old gent, but when he runs into an old mistress (Kati Lazar) and discovers that he has a grown son he has never met or knew about, his life becomes even more confusing. His slimy ex big-shot brother-in-law (Istvan Avar) is a major player in the new entrepeneurial risk-taking, and he beseiges poor Ede with advice as well. In this topical comedy, all these worrisome things, and more, come to a head at a big family celebrtion.

Whoops

1993

Whoops poster
7.0

Ede (Dezso Garas) is in his sixties, and he is full of uncertainty about how he and his wife Kati (Mari Torocsik) will fare in the new post-communist regime in Hungary. At least before, he had some idea what he needed to do to get by, and even if he never made much money with his myriad schemes, they got by. Kati has got a real bug in her ear about their livelihood, and is hounding him to get into the spirit of the new system. This is troubling enough for the old gent, but when he runs into an old mistress (Kati Lazar) and discovers that he has a grown son he has never met or knew about, his life becomes even more confusing. His slimy ex big-shot brother-in-law (Istvan Avar) is a major player in the new entrepeneurial risk-taking, and he beseiges poor Ede with advice as well. In this topical comedy, all these worrisome things, and more, come to a head at a big family celebrtion.

Whoops

1993

Passing Fancy poster
7.0

The main character of the story which takes place in the twenties in Budapest is the poet Dr. Rácz György, who returns after ten years of absence. In a café he meets his former friend Lajos, who has just broken up with his lover, Márta, because of the wife of professor Büchler. The transiently formed, rootless Rácz gets entangled into the sophisticated, complicated love affairs of bored or tired ladies.

Passing Fancy

1983

Passing Fancy poster
7.0

The main character of the story which takes place in the twenties in Budapest is the poet Dr. Rácz György, who returns after ten years of absence. In a café he meets his former friend Lajos, who has just broken up with his lover, Márta, because of the wife of professor Büchler. The transiently formed, rootless Rácz gets entangled into the sophisticated, complicated love affairs of bored or tired ladies.

Passing Fancy

1983

Micsoda útjaim poster
NR

Live concert at Madarasi Hargita

Micsoda útjaim

1996

Én és a kisöcsém poster
NR

Kató Kelemen is asked by her father to go to his office and welcome an important business partner of his. When Mr. Andersen arrives he assumes Kató is a secretary and instructs her to deliver a letter. He's about to travel to Venice with his nephew who he has never met before. Since Kató falls in love with Andersen at first sight, she decides to dress like a boy and pretends to be the nephew.

Én és a kisöcsém

1989

Innocent Assassins poster
8.0

Two arts students, András and Viktor who are writing their thesis on detective stories, make up a story and keep nagging the famous film-director, who just came back from Hollywood, until he undertakes the job. At night they work on the film, in which two youths kill a director returning from the US. In the morning the director is found dead - a knife in his back.

Innocent Assassins

1973

Scurvy poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Scurvy

1967

Balkan Balkan poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Balkan Balkan

1993

Balkan Balkan poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Balkan Balkan

1993

Mrs. Dery Where Are You? poster
6.7

Dery is a grande dame actress of the Sarah Bernhardt school of big-gesture theater. Her beauty and popularity is fading, and a new school of acting which involves the use of one's own emotions (a-la Eleanora Duse) is emerging in the person of her younger Viennese rival. She thinks of retiring from the stage, and reunites briefly with her estranged husband in a newly-built manor in the country. Finding that life there is boring, she returns to town, the theater, and her old friends.

Mrs. Dery Where Are You?

1975

Mrs. Dery Where Are You? poster
6.7

Dery is a grande dame actress of the Sarah Bernhardt school of big-gesture theater. Her beauty and popularity is fading, and a new school of acting which involves the use of one's own emotions (a-la Eleanora Duse) is emerging in the person of her younger Viennese rival. She thinks of retiring from the stage, and reunites briefly with her estranged husband in a newly-built manor in the country. Finding that life there is boring, she returns to town, the theater, and her old friends.

Mrs. Dery Where Are You?

1975

No artwork available
10.0

In a castle, the General and Bálint gathered boys for a strange training. They want to select the most capable of them for the big operation. The choice falls on the Son, who must pass the final test before his mission. He will be beaten, but he cannot reveal the name of his handler. The Boy is not broken during the beating, but afterwards he falls into apathy, refusing to leave his room. Teresa talks to him emotionally, threateningly, logically - but to no avail. When she tells him that he will not get up, he gives her a cruel order...

Prés

1971

No artwork available
10.0

In a castle, the General and Bálint gathered boys for a strange training. They want to select the most capable of them for the big operation. The choice falls on the Son, who must pass the final test before his mission. He will be beaten, but he cannot reveal the name of his handler. The Boy is not broken during the beating, but afterwards he falls into apathy, refusing to leave his room. Teresa talks to him emotionally, threateningly, logically - but to no avail. When she tells him that he will not get up, he gives her a cruel order...

Prés

1971

Window poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Window

1966

I Lived under Thirty Two Names poster
7.0

The film, paying a tribute to the memory of Endre Ságvári, a Communist hero, goes back to the summer of 1944. Through Colonel Gombos-Götz who has recognised that the Nazi-Germans will be ultimately defeated, Ságvári, the leader of the Young Communist Workers' Association asks Csiszár, the commander of the barracks in Andrássy street to provide him with guns to help release the Communist prisoners in Tata.

I Lived under Thirty Two Names

1972

Entanglement poster
8.0

After her divorce leaves her feeling depressed and aimless, a disciplined forty-year-old woman named Teréz wanders through Budapest while grappling with a profound sense of isolation. She visits former lovers and estranged acquaintances in a desperate attempt to find a meaningful connection and reclaim the stability she has lost.

Entanglement

1977

Codin si Chira Chiralina poster
NR

A restless drifter from Istrati’s “Codin” crosses paths in Brăila with a fragile, enigmatic woman reminiscent of “Chira Chiralina“ in interwar Romania.

Codin si Chira Chiralina

1994

Codin si Chira Chiralina poster
NR

A restless drifter from Istrati’s “Codin” crosses paths in Brăila with a fragile, enigmatic woman reminiscent of “Chira Chiralina“ in interwar Romania.

Codin si Chira Chiralina

1994

A lőcsei fehér asszony poster
6.0

During the Rákóczi War of Independence, noblewoman Julianna Géczy becomes caught between warring factions as the city of Lőcse falls under siege.

A lőcsei fehér asszony

1976

A lőcsei fehér asszony poster
6.0

During the Rákóczi War of Independence, noblewoman Julianna Géczy becomes caught between warring factions as the city of Lőcse falls under siege.

A lőcsei fehér asszony

1976

Feleségképzés anno 1904 poster
NR

A Béla Vajda Cartoon

Feleségképzés anno 1904

1970

Hűség a labirintushoz – Beszélgetés Pilinszky Jánossal poster
NR

An interview with the Hungarian poet, János Pilinszky.

Hűség a labirintushoz – Beszélgetés Pilinszky Jánossal

1978

Lírai beszélgetés Pilinszky Jánossal poster
NR

János Pilinszky explains his thoughts on the mechanism of thinking, seemingly banal things, faith, Simone Weil, and the scandal of the twentieth century.

Lírai beszélgetés Pilinszky Jánossal

1978