István Bácskai Lauró

Directing

István Bácskai Lauró

Born 1933-05-14 · Budapest, Hungary

István Bácskai Lauró ( Budapest , May 14, 1933 – Budapest , August 13, 2020) Hungarian film director and screenwriter. He was born as the child of István Bácskai and Erzsébet Lauró. He completed his secondary school studies at the Vörösmarty Mihály High School . In 1957, he graduated from the Academy of Theater and Film Arts , where he was Sándor Sára's classmate. Between 1957 and 1967, he was the director of MAFILM . Between 1959 and 1963, he worked in the Balázs Béla Studio , where he was a founding member. His first independent film, A Hamis Izabella , was completed in 1968 . Since 1989, Lauron Kft. executive director. He worked alongside artists such as Márton Keleti , Károly Makk and László Ranódy .

Acting credits

Behind the camera

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7.5

The bitter film grotesque focuses on a Socialist Mafioso. Vágó, the enthusiastic young propagandist is put up at Apuka (Daddy) of the outskirts, Dávid. In the hands of Apuka everything becomes money and he skilfully avoids inspection and controls. In order to help his little family, he sells his rabbit husbandry as mutton, he practises usury on and blackmails his tenants, their rooms are operated as cigar stores.

Rabbits in the Cloak-Room

1971

To See Naples and... poster
9.0

Szegedi Anna, a lawyer having just arrived back from Naples wants to divorce his husband, also a lawyer, because since a hot night she has only been thinking of Laczkó, the handsome businessman.

To See Naples and...

1972

Knight of the TV-screen poster
9.7

This mocking criticism of public life and the media focuses on a TV series. The protagonist of the film, depicting the battles fought for Hungarian castles during the Ottoman occupation, is chosen to be the amateur Prohászka Feri, a worker in the beer-factory.

Knight of the TV-screen

1970

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

Igézet poster
6.4

A poetic experiment (inspired by fine arts and music) to present the skills of metallurgy and metal casting.

Igézet

1964

The Fake "Isabella" poster
6.7

Végh Márta, the teacher is looking for her student Vadász Ica in the Buda villa, but she only finds the tenant, Mrs. Paár - dead. The investigation reveals that Mrs. Paár was murdered for an invaluable stamp, the "Fake Isabella".

The Fake "Isabella"

1968

Bowler Hat and Red Nose poster
10.0

Members of the Wild Goose patrol decide to find the little monkeys stolen from the Zoo. They try to make up for what the unruly adults messed up. They keep bumping into the disguised damned ice-cream vendor, the intriguing Bagaméri, who would like to get the reward set for the finder of the monkeys.

Bowler Hat and Red Nose

1978

Üvegvár a Mississippin poster
10.0

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Üvegvár a Mississippin

1987