
Directing
Pál Schiffer
Born — Died
1939-06-14 — 2001-10-03
Place of birth
Budapest, Hungary
Known for
Directing
Credits
15 titles
Known for
8.0Six physical workers, once working for Videoton, decide to come together and create a company on their own.
Elektra Kft. avagy: bevezetés a kapitalizmus politikai gazdaságtanába
1996
János Kitka Jr, first seen in Schiffer's documentary 'Black Train' a decade earlier, is now 17 and is just released from a youth detention centre. He returns to his village and is put in the care of a probation officer. However, his family doesn't seem to help his situation, but rather makes him run away from home.
On Probation
1983
6.3The documentary-feature film taking place in the seventies is the "development novel" of Cséplő György, the intelligent and ambitious Gypsy boy. Having finished only two terms at school, the eighteen-year-old boy leaves Németfalu with two of his companions to find employment in Budapest and to break out of his miserable existence in the village cottage with the help of his small savings.
Gyuri
1978
6.0The residents of Dunapataj discuss the major historical events of the 20th century and talk about how history has affected their local lives.
By the Danube
1988
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Színes kavicsok
1961
NRA film about the romani people of the village Szendrő in Borsod County.
Faluszéli házak
1972
Behind the camera
8.0Six physical workers, once working for Videoton, decide to come together and create a company on their own.
Elektra Kft. avagy: bevezetés a kapitalizmus politikai gazdaságtanába
1996
8.0Six physical workers, once working for Videoton, decide to come together and create a company on their own.
Elektra Kft. avagy: bevezetés a kapitalizmus politikai gazdaságtanába
1996
János Kitka Jr, first seen in Schiffer's documentary 'Black Train' a decade earlier, is now 17 and is just released from a youth detention centre. He returns to his village and is put in the care of a probation officer. However, his family doesn't seem to help his situation, but rather makes him run away from home.
On Probation
1983
János Kitka Jr, first seen in Schiffer's documentary 'Black Train' a decade earlier, is now 17 and is just released from a youth detention centre. He returns to his village and is put in the care of a probation officer. However, his family doesn't seem to help his situation, but rather makes him run away from home.
On Probation
1983
6.3The documentary-feature film taking place in the seventies is the "development novel" of Cséplő György, the intelligent and ambitious Gypsy boy. Having finished only two terms at school, the eighteen-year-old boy leaves Németfalu with two of his companions to find employment in Budapest and to break out of his miserable existence in the village cottage with the help of his small savings.
Gyuri
1978
6.3The documentary-feature film taking place in the seventies is the "development novel" of Cséplő György, the intelligent and ambitious Gypsy boy. Having finished only two terms at school, the eighteen-year-old boy leaves Németfalu with two of his companions to find employment in Budapest and to break out of his miserable existence in the village cottage with the help of his small savings.
Gyuri
1978
6.0The residents of Dunapataj discuss the major historical events of the 20th century and talk about how history has affected their local lives.
By the Danube
1988
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Színes kavicsok
1961
NRA film about the romani people of the village Szendrő in Borsod County.
Faluszéli házak
1972
9.5This shocking black and white documentary shows the lives of Szabolcs county (Northeast Hungary) commuters who traveled 200-300 kilometers from their villages to Budapest (the capital of Hungary) every week by train in the communist era.
Black Train
1970
NRThe film shows the transition period in Hungary during the early 90s. It starts with the mass redundancies in the Videoton factory in Székesfehérvár in 1989 and through the next several years follows the ups and downs of several of the sacked workers, their struggle to find new jobs and make a living during the economic crisis. Some of them are more successful than others.
Fractions I-III.
1998
NRPál Schiffer's film reports on the injustices of the education system of the 1970s, the lies of the Kádár system, and the everyday life of Roma children.
What Do Gypsy Children Do?
1974
NRNo synopsis available yet.
A Hungarian Cowboy
1987
NRPál Schiffer's classic documentary about the closing of the Videoton factory as it falls prey to unfortunate economic transitions.
The Videoton Story
1993
After the name of a recent lottery winner is announced in the newspaper, hundreds of letters are sent to him, asking to borrow or receive some of the money.
Levelek az öttalálatoshoz
1971
