Péter Balázs

Acting

Péter Balázs

Born

1943-03-05 (83)

Known for

Acting

Credits

31 titles

Known for

Film credits

1980s · 10 titles

No artwork available
7.0

Benő Karácsony's best-known and most famous novel, The Sunny Side, was written in 1936. Its protagonist is Kázmér Felméri, at first a forced clerk, then a bumbling miller and talented sculptor, who, with his own unique outlook on life, lives his life in the greatest possible inner freedom among the typical characters of his small town in the typical milieu of the time.

Napos oldal

1983

Giddy Vacations poster
8.0

A family of boisterous children expect their father to organize a really exciting holiday. So when the chance comes up of spending it on a boat, the Ramona, it seems that the problem is solved.

Giddy Vacations

1987

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

The Music of Life poster
4.0

The Soviet-Hungarian film version of the biography of one of the most talented composers of our time, the classic of the Vienna operetta - Imre Kálmán, known for all his music for operettas "The Csárdás Princess", "Countess Maritza", "The Circus Princess", "The Violet of Montmartre", "Die Bajadere" and many others. The music of Imre Kálmán has no equal in operetta for its festivity, “elegance”, and the refinement of melodics and orchestration.

The Music of Life

1984

János Háry poster
7.9

The story is of a veteran hussar in the Austrian army in the first half of the 19th century who sits in the village inn regaling his listeners with fantastic tales of heroism

János Háry

1983

Stephen, the King poster
7.3

István, a király ("Stephen, the King") is a Hungarian rock opera written by Levente Szörényi (music) and János Bródy (lyrics), based on the life of Saint Stephen of Hungary. The storyline was based on the play Ezredforduló (Turn of the Millennium) by Miklós Boldizsár, who co-wrote the libretto. The opera was first staged in 1983 on an open-air stage in Budapest. This first performance was also made into a 1984 film, directed by Gábor Koltay, and its music released on an album. The musical became a smash hit and is still very popular in Hungary and among Hungarian minorities in neighboring countries.

Stephen, the King

1984

A bolond lány poster
NR

Examining magistrate Sévigné wants to make a career in Paris, mainly at the urging of his wife. She is assigned to investigate a murder case, the victim was a maid, the accused was the maid. The examining magistrate, against his orders, believes in her innocence and starts a thorough investigation. The interrogations reveal who the real murderer is.

A bolond lány

1980

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Kutyakomédia

1982

A padlás poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

A padlás

1988

Circus Maximus poster
9.0

During World War II Carlotta, the circus owner maintains herself, her lover and her rather run-down circus-team by illegal man-smuggling. In the year of 1944, besides the usual refugees, she even has to take Professor Máté, the renown mathematician to the Yugoslavian partisans. The team is joined by Carlotta's psychotic son who has escaped from an asylum.

Circus Maximus

1980

1970s · 8 titles

Used Coffin poster
NR

Widely known in the village how miser Berta is. Gossip says, even when her husband passed away a year ago she tried to buy a second-hand coffin to get him buried in. She's in good physical condition compare to her age, but one day she just can't get out of her bed. The village council hire a mom of 3 in order to help her in and around the house, and she paid by the council as Berta act like she has no money. Once, when the young mom doing her bed she finds her secret savings there, and turns out she is a wealthy woman. Now the council, as she can not be on social, decides to use her savings to pay her help, of course without letting her know that.

Used Coffin

1979

Spider Football poster
6.5

This satire on film depicts the micro-climate of a technical vocational school newly established at a housing estate. The construction vocational school holds a name-giving ceremony, thus calling the attention of its supervisory organ to itself. The school-master distributes as well as receives presents from the sponsoring factory, and the pupils sit for a written examination of unheard-of material. The results are devastating, which the despotic school-master attempts to conceal by a staged disciplinary procedure.

Spider Football

1976

Adáshiba poster
NR

Károly Szakonyi's great play, The Transmission Error, could be set today. The story is about the Bódog family, where the main role is played by watching television, while the family members' attention to each other becomes superficial, their togetherness formalised without them realising the weight and tragedy of it.

Adáshiba

1979

141 Minutes from the Unfinished Sentence poster
5.5

In 1930s Hungary, budding aristocrat Lőrinc Parcen Nagy undergoes a moral awakening. He abandons his privileged life to join the socialist underground, facing the harsh realities of class struggle and the approach of WWII.

141 Minutes from the Unfinished Sentence

1975

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

Saroküzlet poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Saroküzlet

1979

Run to be Caught poster
5.0

Dangerous spies act as representatives of an international recording company to get important plans from the father of an aspiring composer.

Run to be Caught

1972

The Elephant poster
10.0

Just a few days before the foreign delegation arrives at the ZOO, someone scribbled the elephant with unwashable paint.

The Elephant

1978

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