László Ungváry

Acting

László Ungváry

Born 1911-12-07 · Budapest, Hungary

Acting credits

Haber's Photo Shop poster
7.3

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

Haber's Photo Shop

1963

The Song of Rákóczi poster
10.0

Dressed as a gypsy woman, Krisztinka Oltay spies, organizes, and takes measures to help Prince Rákóczi and free his lover, Péter Szakmáry. Péter was taken in by his brother, who was loyal to the emperor, and he wants to execute him in Kassa together with the other Kurucs. Krisztinka inspires the tired kuruc troops with a song and Rákóczi's music to capture Kassa and free the prisoners...

The Song of Rákóczi

1943

A Quiet Home poster
10.0

The composer Berki András, in his co-tenancy noisy with the barking of dogs and the hullabaloo of children, is unable to compose the new song for his fiancée, the singer, although the premiere is near. He cannot believe his eyes as he sees the official decision that he will soon get an apartment on his own. Yet his joy is soon over. The pharmacist Ács Éva arrives with identical documents. The situation which evolves as a result of the new co-tenancy forces them to cover up things before their partners.

A Quiet Home

1957

A Strange Marriage poster
8.0

Count János Buttler rushes home to his parents and his beloved for the school holidays. On the way, they stop at Baron Dőry's house, where János is deviously trapped. In the presence of false witnesses, he is forcibly married to Baron Dőry's pregnant daughter. The swearing priest is the father of the unborn child. Although Buttler, his family and friends do their utmost to have the marriage annulled, the Church and the court, fearing for his authority, will not allow it. John Buttler and his lover therefore choose another way to divorce.

A Strange Marriage

1951

Törékeny boldogság poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Törékeny boldogság

1966

Yesterday poster
9.5

October, 1956. Colonel lieutenant Szabó sends a platoon with the mission of calming the people demonstrating in the town. The platoon is lined up under the command of Lieutenant Csendes and the soldiers aim at the demonstrators. Szusza Kis changes sides, and Csendes is unable to shoot at his childhood mate. They withdraw.

Yesterday

1959

Cobweb poster
7.0

The guard of the pond announces to Niklai, the president of the Mezőháti farmers' cooperative, that the agronomist Deczki has shipped one hundred and twenty kilos more fish than the amount on the waybill. The management decides to transfer the agronomist.

Cobweb

1974

Looking for a husband poster
5.0

Kato is looking for a husband for her sisters so that she can marry. Mari helps her as a counsellor, but all their attempts end in scandal. Kato is left to focus on his own happiness. She is in love with Baron Koltay, but he also wants to win the hand of the actress Palma Nusi. Kató pretends to be Koltay's sister and wins Nusi's trust. The Baron soon forgets Nusi and falls in love with Kato. A tangle of lies and deceit finally leads Koltay and Kato to marriage.

Looking for a husband

1940

Relatives poster
8.0

The hero of the story taking place at the end of the twenties is the modest civil servant, doctor Kopjáss who is suddenly appointed to be the chief attorney of Zsarátnok city. He realises slowly that his immaculate name was needed as a cover for the corrupt loan transactions handled by the lords of the city.

Relatives

1954

No artwork available
7.0

The story of the film with a touch of journalistic atmosphere takes place in the autumn 1919 after the fall of the proletarian dictatorship. The main figure is Zilahy Kálmán, a high-school teacher, very much attracted to Ady's ideology. He is, at the same time, a rational minded sober character keeping a certain distance from the chaotic events. During the first months of the terror of the Whites, he takes a stand for his persecuted colleague, and with his wife's help, he hides Pálos, a Communist commissar in his flat.

Fallow Land

1973

Virrad poster
9.0

A sequel to "Yesterday". About the defeat of the Hungarian uprising of 1956. The action takes place in the barracks of the People's Army, in the War Ministry and in one of the largest factories in Budapest.

Virrad

1960

Crow On the Tower poster
9.0

Lenke, a schoolgirl in Budapest, is in love with László, a middle-aged widower, owner of the estate in the neighbourhood of her own country home. She secretly follows him in Budapest, and they finally meet.

Crow On the Tower

1938

Torchlight poster
10.0

Shows the conflict between Kossuth Lajos and Görgey Artur during the 1848 Hungarian revolution.

Torchlight

1963

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 Tenkes kapitánya poster
NR

The film version of the hit TV film series recreates the Kuruc-Labanc skirmishes. On the orders of the Kuruc brigadier Ádám Balogh of Béri, the cunning Eke Máté collects the poor. They set out from their farmhouse in Tenkeshegy Castle to raid against the Laban, crushing the Siklós Laban colonel's nose in the process, and then take the castle. Máté continues the fight against the Labanc as the Kuruc captain of the Siklós castle.

A Tenkes kapitánya

1965

The Golden Head poster
6.0

Stevenson, the famous English criminal expert visits Hungary with his family. While he is chairing a conference on criminology, infamous art treasure robbers steal the golden herm of Saint László. Suspicion is cast on the Stevenson children.

The Golden Head

1964

The Corporal and the Others poster
8.0

PFC Molnár decides his WWII services are over, and with serious money hidden in his hand grenades, he heads to an abandoned mansion where he encounters not only the sour butler but a bunch of others who also try to wimp out of their duties.

The Corporal and the Others

1965

Három csillag poster
8.0

The film consists of 3 novellas. 1. On the eve of the Soviet advance into Hungary, workers at a military plant risk everything to strike in defiance, displaying unwavering courage and solidarity. 2. During a fierce battle, three Soviet soldiers shelter in a peasant’s hut where a dying mother begs them to baptize her newborn - an act of compassion they fulfill, leaving behind three stars from their caps as a lasting gift. 3. After liberating a Hungarian town, Soviet troops rescue a hidden throng of civilians, huddled in underground tunnels, from imminent Nazi brutality, saving countless lives in the process.

Három csillag

1960

The End of Eternity poster
4.0

Somewhere outside of time as we understand it is the timeless realm known as Eternity, where a group of highly trained technicians – drawn from all the Centuries under their control – have manipulated the Earth’s history to transform it into what they believe to be a perfect world, free from every disaster and hardship. But when Senior Computer Twissel sends a young Technician named Harlan to study the 480th Century in the company of a seductive woman, Harlan begins to suspect that Twissel may have some secret plan of his own which has something to do with the forbidden centuries before time travel was invented...

The End of Eternity

1976

The Football Star poster
6.5

Cabinet crisis threatens in Futbólia, due to a series of lost matches. The head of state charges admiral Duca with the task, as a last chance, to get hold of the football star of the Hungarian team presently playing in Switzerland.

The Football Star

1957