István Sztankay

Acting

István Sztankay

Born 1936-02-14 · Budapest, Hungary

Acting credits

Süsü, a sárkány kalandjai poster
8.7

No synopsis available yet.

Süsü, a sárkány kalandjai

1977

Twenty Hours poster
6.2

In 1956, a crusading newspaper reporter covers the Soviet invasion of Hungary. Initially critical of the communists, the feature later espouses the virtues of social changes implemented since the invasion.

Twenty Hours

1965

A körtvélyesi csíny poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

A körtvélyesi csíny

1995

Miss Windbag poster
9.0

Éva, the pretty housekeeper is preparing to take an entrance exam at the Faculty of Law. In addition to this, she also has energy to arrange the day-to-day matters of the committee of tenants. Soon, she discovers that her beauty and cocksure behaviour finds its way not only at the exam, but in the mazes of bureaucracy, too. She helps get trade licences, flat allocations, and shop premises for those in need.

Miss Windbag

1963

The Master Criminal poster
10.0

Lohmann's son is kidnapped. The un-known kidnappers get a thirty-thousand-jewel from the West German millionaire as ransom. The eager police lieutenant-colonel, Gálffy finds that the traces lead to a mysterious, elegant blonde, who is naturally a brunette.

The Master Criminal

1969

Dialogue poster
7.0

The film depicts the period between 1945-60 through the life of a communist couple. Barna Judit, just released from a concentration camp and Horváth László, with an illegal past are brought together by the communist movement. They study and make plans together in the hope of a future that will make sense. The marriage they just entered, however, gets ruined soon by the events of history.

Dialogue

1963

Erdély Aranykora poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Erdély Aranykora

1989

Dragon and Slippers poster
7.6

Queen Guinevere sadly complains to her beloved handmaiden Peggy that her husband, King Arthur, has neglected her for years. The King spends all his time on the platform of the knight's tower or at the famous 'round table'. The women figure that only the good old wizard Merlin can help. Merlin sends Guinevere a powerful magic potion that will help her win back Arthur's love. The ladies bake the potion into a pudding, but it is accidentally eaten by Arthur's favorite knight, Lancelot. To complicate matters, Peggy is in love with Lancelot, but the knight's overdose of magic causes him to fall madly in love with the queen.

Dragon and Slippers

1990

Májusi fagy poster
NR

The movie tells about the relationship between young people who love each other. Young Mishka's family works on a construction site in Budapest, and on weekends they come home to their village on the Great Plain to relax and have fun. It is here that the young man meets Klari. He learns that Klari is his fellow villager, although she also works in Budapest. They arrange to meet the following weekend. Mishka is truly in love. Clarie is too, but she doesn't dare to admit to him that she has been unfaithful.

Májusi fagy

1962

Férfiarckép poster
10.0

A grey-haired man walks through the fields. Fatigued, but with the same tenacity he roams the roads, the pathways, the tracks every day, medical bag in hand. Everyone awaits him: desperate or in hope, to the dying or to the woman in labour. He is the local GP. In fact, he is film director Imre Gyöngyössy’s father, the protagonist of one of his first short films. The personal narration based on the director’s poem is made complete by the pictures of Sándor Sára and István Gaál who were also active at Balázs Béla Studio at that time.

Férfiarckép

1967

Palm Sunday poster
9.0

Epic recalling the early days of the Republic of the councils.

Palm Sunday

1969

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Krémes

1974

On Home Grounds poster
8.7

This ironic comedy is set in the god-forsaken Kiskúnbékás, at the end of the fifties. There are no jobs, the town's "golden team", who once were third class national soccer players have scattered

On Home Grounds

1969

Villa Negra poster
8.0

A past world is revived in the little cottage in the outskirts, next to the housing blocks under construction. Tamburás, the old hobo collects swerved youth: Diák, who desires freedom, the bus driver who is deprived of his license for having run over someone, and the rest. They have got an easy and unbound life there, with constant music, small thefts, occasional labour, tricks.

Villa Negra

1963

Gréti...! (egy kutya feljegyzései) poster
8.5

Gréti, a German shepherd, searches for her missing puppy.

Gréti...! (egy kutya feljegyzései)

1987

A Window on the Sky poster
8.0

Mrs. Fazekas and her three sons live in a tenement house in the outskirts. The eldest son, Fecó, is saving money in order to buy a washing machine for his mother, while her other two sons spend time by hanging around and playing tricks.

A Window on the Sky

1959

No artwork available
7.0

A farce written by the king of pulp fictioni in Hungary Rejtő Jenő

Golden Jubilee

2002

Rolling on the Road Roller poster
NR

Józsi, a sailor who once traveled the world, dock worker and stable boy lives in the small village of Nyírmadocsa. From here he sets out to find a road roller for his small village, so that at last there will be a real road in the village. When Józsi, far from his beloved homeland, gets the engine, he sets off on an adventurous journey, roaring through Hungary towards his small reseda smelling village.

Rolling on the Road Roller

1977

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

Tales of a Long Journey poster
8.0

On the crowded train, the workers entertain each other by telling stories.

Tales of a Long Journey

1962

The Land of Promise poster
7.0

At the beginning of the 50s, Jani, the young pitman, goes to work to a new mine. To his disappointment, he is only employed as a trammer. After lengthy disputes he manages to get to the post he desires.

The Land of Promise

1961

A Galant Story poster
10.0

The story of Bálint Balassi, the poet and warrior. The scene is Hungary at the end of the 16th century. The soldiers stationed at the castles of Hungary's border defence-system spend their days with anti-Turkish raids, hunting and womanising.

A Galant Story

1970

Return Ticket poster
6.9

Five old men and a kid are travelling in a train's cabin without purpose. They travel because it's free and they don't have another place to stay. From their conversations we learn the tragedies of their lives. Also the hidden interlockings of their faith will out slowly.

Return Ticket

1997

No artwork available
5.0

The relationship between a man and a woman is an evergreen subject, the subject of countless tragedies and comedies. This programme tells hilarious stories, most of which are very much of today, but which go back to the Garden of Eden: if men had not written the story of creation, would Eve have been the cause of the "Fall"? The debate is indecisive, since women and men always look for the fault in each other and not in themselves. The fault is never in the "apple". And Adam and Eve always eat the apple together.

A hiba nem az almában van

1981