Directing
Péter Tímár
Born 1950-12-19 · Budapest
Péter Tímár (born 19 December 1950) is a Hungarian film director and screenwriter. He has directed 14 films since 1985. His 1989 film Before the Bat's Flight Is Done was entered into the 39th Berlin International Film Festival. His 1999 film 6:3 Play It Again Tutti was entered into the 21st Moscow International Film Festival. His 2001 film Blind Guys was entered into the 23rd Moscow International Film Festival.
Acting credits
Behind the camera
5.5One day, two unsuccessful rock musicians, Ede and Zaki, come across a competition. To commemorate the anniversary of the Institute for the Blind, they have to write a musical piece for the blind. Since there are no other candidates, they get the job. In two nights they put the piece together. However to their great disappointment, they find that they also have to teach the blind kids to perform it, if they want to get the money. Unwillingly they are submerged into the world of the blind; just like the spectator. While Zaki works on the musical in a studio, Ede starts rehearsing with the blind youths. A strange competition starts among the blind girls. They all fall in love with Ede, and the blonde Edith makes up her mind to approach him. But he fails as a director. He has no idea how to handle these people, so he soon gives up. However...
Vakvagányok
2001
5.5One day, two unsuccessful rock musicians, Ede and Zaki, come across a competition. To commemorate the anniversary of the Institute for the Blind, they have to write a musical piece for the blind. Since there are no other candidates, they get the job. In two nights they put the piece together. However to their great disappointment, they find that they also have to teach the blind kids to perform it, if they want to get the money. Unwillingly they are submerged into the world of the blind; just like the spectator. While Zaki works on the musical in a studio, Ede starts rehearsing with the blind youths. A strange competition starts among the blind girls. They all fall in love with Ede, and the blonde Edith makes up her mind to approach him. But he fails as a director. He has no idea how to handle these people, so he soon gives up. However...
Vakvagányok
2001
6.2Defoe, lacking fantasy of his own takes home the drunkard sailor from the pub and lets him tell his stories on the uninhabited island.
Leave Robinson Alone
1990
6.2Defoe, lacking fantasy of his own takes home the drunkard sailor from the pub and lets him tell his stories on the uninhabited island.
Leave Robinson Alone
1990
6.2No synopsis available yet.
6:3, Play It Again Tutti
1999
6.2No synopsis available yet.
6:3, Play It Again Tutti
1999
6.5In the open-air cinema-like scenery domestic rock bands get time for a short movie clip each, linked by an also short musical frame-play. Each of the altogether eighteen clips is a whole film etude playing with visual-lingual associations, film ideas, revealing the back-thought of the songs, and on the whole sometimes melancholicly, sometimes ironically the hopeless, sad picture of the era can be distinguished.
Movie Clip
1987
6.5In the open-air cinema-like scenery domestic rock bands get time for a short movie clip each, linked by an also short musical frame-play. Each of the altogether eighteen clips is a whole film etude playing with visual-lingual associations, film ideas, revealing the back-thought of the songs, and on the whole sometimes melancholicly, sometimes ironically the hopeless, sad picture of the era can be distinguished.
Movie Clip
1987
Visus shows the working of the eye using optical and sound effects neglecting the concrete nature of the objects depicted while promoting a technically impeccable exploration of photo receptive capacities to an essay on the visible and the invisible in order to make a poetic vow of loyalty to the act of vision.
Visus
1976
6.7The movie is set in the actual "Ki Mit Tud?" talent contest in 1962. In reality the contest in dance music category was won by an army brass band. "Omega" which later became one of the most successful Hungarian rock bands came out in the second place.
Dollybirds
1997
6.7The movie is set in the actual "Ki Mit Tud?" talent contest in 1962. In reality the contest in dance music category was won by an army brass band. "Omega" which later became one of the most successful Hungarian rock bands came out in the second place.
Dollybirds
1997
NRThe twenty-minute film, divided into two parts, is made up of old newsreels and scenes recorded on the Budapest metro. The filmmaker places the celluloid tape, which is attached to the camera, on the trick table, examines the frames meticulously and cuts out individual details. The archival images are put into different contexts by different interventions.
Mozgóképanalízis
1977
NRThe twenty-minute film, divided into two parts, is made up of old newsreels and scenes recorded on the Budapest metro. The filmmaker places the celluloid tape, which is attached to the camera, on the trick table, examines the frames meticulously and cuts out individual details. The archival images are put into different contexts by different interventions.
Mozgóképanalízis
1977
6.6In the box factory standing in the middle of nowhere only women work, and they themselves only waste their time, as the unmarketable boxes pile up in the yards. The fireman in duty, who stores stolen gasoline in the inflammable plant, sets up cameras in the women's locker room the sake of 'business'.
Sound Eroticism
1986
6.6In the box factory standing in the middle of nowhere only women work, and they themselves only waste their time, as the unmarketable boxes pile up in the yards. The fireman in duty, who stores stolen gasoline in the inflammable plant, sets up cameras in the women's locker room the sake of 'business'.
Sound Eroticism
1986
Experimental short film.
Eldorádó
1980
4.9Near-broke and desperate, Hungarian entrepreneur Feri decides to put a sleazy spin on tourism. After leasing a Lake Balaton boarding house, he moves in his gang -- wife, nephew, daughter, and the daughter's boyfriend -- and then sets out to scam unsuspecting German tourists.
Haunted Holiday
2010
4.9Near-broke and desperate, Hungarian entrepreneur Feri decides to put a sleazy spin on tourism. After leasing a Lake Balaton boarding house, he moves in his gang -- wife, nephew, daughter, and the daughter's boyfriend -- and then sets out to scam unsuspecting German tourists.
Haunted Holiday
2010
9.0After a woman dies, the devil allows her to relive a 2 minute period over and over in order to escape her fate.
The Prince's Respite
2006
6.1The 50 years old Ferenc rents an apartment on the Balaton beach, but it has a lot of debt on it. His plan is to make it profitable.
Zimmer Feri
1998
6.1The 50 years old Ferenc rents an apartment on the Balaton beach, but it has a lot of debt on it. His plan is to make it profitable.
Zimmer Feri
1998
5.0When the home where they grew up and spent the best days of their childhood is threatened, a group of kids bands together to try and save it.
It's Summer at Long Last
2002
7.5The story is based around an American Idol kind of TV talent show and the eventual winner of the contest: a young orphan woman, who works at an orphanage herself. As I learned from the werkfilm on the DVD, the story was specifically written for Oláh, who in real life was the runner-up of the very first such TV show in Hungary “Megasztár” (“MegaStar”) in 2004. She didn’t win there despite being many viewers’ favorite and having a terrific voice. It is kind of a consolation that she won in the movie, although reading the legal troubles about getting her fee must have made the victory sour.
Casting Everything
2008
5.8A divorced middle-aged woman takes home an ardent suitor, only to discover that he prefers her teenage son. The mother is an overworked coffee-shop attendant, the suitor turns out to be a plain-clothes policeman and the boy is a frustrated flautist.
Before the Bat's Flight Is Done
1989


