Directing

Sándor Simó

Born — Died

1934-08-07 — 2001-09-04

Place of birth

Budapest, Austria-Hungary (now Hungary)

Known for

Directing

Credits

17 titles

Sándor Simó was a prominent Hungarian film director, screenwriter, and producer. He graduated from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics in 1957 with a degree in chemical engineering and later pursued film directing at the Academy of Drama and Film in Budapest, graduating in 1964. Simó's directorial works include Those Who Wear Glasses (1969), which won the Golden Leopard at the Locarno International Film Festival, and My Father's Happy Years (1977), entered into the 28th Berlin International Film Festival.

Known for

Sunshine poster
6.5

The fate of a Hungarian Jewish family throughout the 20th century.

Sunshine

1999

The Shadow Century poster
7.0

A drugsploitation film by the Hungarian director András Dér

The Shadow Century

1993

Gangster Film poster
6.0

1979. Gábor H. works in a law enforcement institution. He robs a bank branch, gets into jail. 1989. Gábor H. and the similarly unemployed Sanyi want to get money by robbing.

Gangster Film

1999

Those Who Wear Glasses poster
6.0

The young Valkó wants to plan a block of apartments that will still be modern fifty years from now. His ambitious plans are continuously rejected by his manipulative and careless superiors. So instead of the modern block of flats he only plans a bachelor apartment.

Those Who Wear Glasses

1969

Cloud Above the River Ganges poster
5.5

András and Juli meet at a desperate moment in their lives, when they have both made a difficult decision, the consequences of which they cannot bear alone. András, a talented but heavily addicted programmer, decides to end his career, while Juli, a budding actress, has left her husband and temporarily her daughter to rethink her life. The two move in together and lock themselves in Andrew's apartment, where he enters his umpteenth detox, while Juli tries to help him with patience and love. In the weeks that follow, they explore the deepest depths of human existence, a hell of fear and humiliation, of physical and mental suffering. The hope of healing can mean new possibilities in the lives of these two men.

Cloud Above the River Ganges

2002

Close to Love poster
5.7

A love story between a young, policeman and a Chinese immigrant girl, who speak no common language.

Close to Love

1999

Film credits

Behind the camera

The Shadow Century poster
7.0

A drugsploitation film by the Hungarian director András Dér

The Shadow Century

1993

Gangster Film poster
6.0

1979. Gábor H. works in a law enforcement institution. He robs a bank branch, gets into jail. 1989. Gábor H. and the similarly unemployed Sanyi want to get money by robbing.

Gangster Film

1999

Those Who Wear Glasses poster
6.0

The young Valkó wants to plan a block of apartments that will still be modern fifty years from now. His ambitious plans are continuously rejected by his manipulative and careless superiors. So instead of the modern block of flats he only plans a bachelor apartment.

Those Who Wear Glasses

1969

Those Who Wear Glasses poster
6.0

The young Valkó wants to plan a block of apartments that will still be modern fifty years from now. His ambitious plans are continuously rejected by his manipulative and careless superiors. So instead of the modern block of flats he only plans a bachelor apartment.

Those Who Wear Glasses

1969

Cloud Above the River Ganges poster
5.5

András and Juli meet at a desperate moment in their lives, when they have both made a difficult decision, the consequences of which they cannot bear alone. András, a talented but heavily addicted programmer, decides to end his career, while Juli, a budding actress, has left her husband and temporarily her daughter to rethink her life. The two move in together and lock themselves in Andrew's apartment, where he enters his umpteenth detox, while Juli tries to help him with patience and love. In the weeks that follow, they explore the deepest depths of human existence, a hell of fear and humiliation, of physical and mental suffering. The hope of healing can mean new possibilities in the lives of these two men.

Cloud Above the River Ganges

2002

Close to Love poster
5.7

A love story between a young, policeman and a Chinese immigrant girl, who speak no common language.

Close to Love

1999

My Father's Happy Years poster
8.0

Director Sandor Simo based this film on his recollections of a period in his father's life just after World War II. In the film, Janos Torok is a chemist and an entrepreneur With enormous enthusiasm, he gets loans to purchase a small chemical plant and begins experiments to create innovative products, such as hormones. Meanwhile, the communist party has come to dominate Hungarian life in such a way that his activities are viewed as little more than criminal. He is hauled away to a prison camp, but even then his letters home are full of boundless optimism and his ideas for further experiments.

My Father's Happy Years

1977

My Father's Happy Years poster
8.0

Director Sandor Simo based this film on his recollections of a period in his father's life just after World War II. In the film, Janos Torok is a chemist and an entrepreneur With enormous enthusiasm, he gets loans to purchase a small chemical plant and begins experiments to create innovative products, such as hormones. Meanwhile, the communist party has come to dominate Hungarian life in such a way that his activities are viewed as little more than criminal. He is hauled away to a prison camp, but even then his letters home are full of boundless optimism and his ideas for further experiments.

My Father's Happy Years

1977

Elie Wiesel Goes Home poster
9.0

A documentary chronicling the adolescent years of Elie Wiesel and the history of his sufferings. Eliezer was fifteen when Fascism brutally altered his life forever. Fifty years later, he returns to Sighetu Marmatiei, the town where he was born, to walk the painful road of remembrance - but is it possible to speak of the unspeakable? Or does Auschwitz lie beyond the capacity of any human language - the place where words and stories run out?

Elie Wiesel Goes Home

1997

Sticky Matters poster
7.0

A girl is on the skids because of love. A short tempered and passionate young man falls in love with the girl. His emotions are so powerful that he is prepared to surrender his whole personality. The boy has a good friend, who is not sure whether their bond is friendly or homosexual. Before the girl arrived, the friendship was close, but now she has thrown a spanner in the works. How do they react to the new situation?

Sticky Matters

2001

The Train Killer poster
7.5

Based on a true story, this film is a dramatization of the events that led to the destruction of one of the most famous trains in history, the Orient Express.

The Train Killer

1983

Farewell To You poster
7.0

September 1938. Tenants of a Budapest block of flats live their everyday lives, conducted by tradition. World politics does not divide them. Their major experience is the private life of the actress in the house.

Farewell To You

1987

In the Prime of Life poster
7.0

The film describes the general situation and conditions of the middle-aged intellectuals.

In the Prime of Life

1971

In the Prime of Life poster
7.0

The film describes the general situation and conditions of the middle-aged intellectuals.

In the Prime of Life

1971

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NR

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Alfonzo mondja... Szavalj a Gizi néninek...

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Franciska vasárnapjai poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Franciska vasárnapjai

1996