Anna Széles

Acting

Anna Széles

Born 1942-08-24 · Oradea, Bihor, Romania

Anna Seles (Hungarian Széles Anna, born August 24, 1942, Oradea, Romania) is a Hungarian and Romanian theater and cinema actress. In 1965 she graduated from the Theater Institute in Tirgu Mures. She played in the Hungarian Theater of Cluj-Napoca [ro] in plays by Shakespeare, Moliere, Goldoni, Gorky, Chekhov, Sigligeti. In the cinema - since 1963 ("Rest by the Sea"). She was shot by leading Romanian and Hungarian directors. Being an ethnic Hungarian, she often came to Hungary to film until she finally moved to her historical homeland in 1989. In 1975-1985, she was married to actor Florin Piersik. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Acting credits

Stalin's Bride poster
6.0

At a dusty crossroads in the Soviet Union villagers surrender their possessions - a horse, a samovar, a goat - to the state. The train which takes them away brings to the village a physically and mentally handicapped woman, barely able to speak. She makes herself bracelets of burrs and studies herself in a cracked and cloudy mirror. Befriended by very few, teased and tormented by many she seeks protection at a huge portrait of Stalin.

Stalin's Bride

1991

The Conquest poster
4.4

Filmed in commemoration of Hungary's 1100th anniversary and on the sites of the actual events, a cast of thousands authentically recreates the 896 AD arrival of the Magyar chief Arpad (Nero) and his seven tribes into the Carpathian basin from the steppes.

The Conquest

1996

The Canary and the Blizzard poster
6.5

In the winter of 1933, an illegalist (a communist, member of a political party a party outlawed at the time) assumes the mission of a wounded colleague to transmit a secret message.

The Canary and the Blizzard

1970

Virgo Sign poster
6.8

In the fall, under the sign of Virgo, in a Dobrogea village, the harvest festival is in progress. An amateur troupe is playing a scene with Afrodite, Dionysos and Neptune; but also dome old shamanic dances. Dița and Dionis are preparing for wedding. But the sins of their parents will weigh heavily on them.

Virgo Sign

1967

Gaudeamus igitur poster
6.6

Five young high school graduates are preparing for college admissions in one of the largest and most important university centers, Cluj. Once they become students, the lives of the five change, and the results will be commensurate with the work of each.

Gaudeamus igitur

1965

Meanders poster
6.5

Petru and Constantin, former faculty mates, have different views concerning their lives and professions; while the former has a bright imagination, is very creative and daring, the latter is looking only for personal comfort and material satisfaction. They contend for the same woman – but even if she loves Petru, she marries Constantin for his material condition. Though he finds in Constantin an adversary who does not hesitate to remove him, Petru will surpass him professionally.

Meanders

1966

Kingdom in the Clouds poster
6.2

A young man's quest for a kingdom promising eternal youth and immortality. To reach his goal he must fulfill the three wishes of the Emperor's daughter, retrieve three golden objects, answer three riddles set by the Lord of Time, and overcome an evil witch and escape the Kingdom of Lies ruled by an evil Emperor and the young man's nemesis, the Prince of Lies. In return for good deeds along the way, he is given a magical horn and feather to aid him in his quest and is served by a flying horse, All this before he can finally enter the Kingdom of Youth without Old Age and Life without Death and marry the Emperor's daughter.

Kingdom in the Clouds

1968

Forest of the Hanged poster
6.6

In 1916 as an officer in the Habsburg Army ethnic Romanian Apostol Bologa is torn between remaining loyal to the Habsburgs or deserting to the Romanian Army across enemy lines.

Forest of the Hanged

1965

The Silver Mask poster
7.1

Agatha Slatineanu, together with the alleged banker Troianoff, rob the boyar Valcu of a treasure collected in order to buy the throne. However, the gold is recovered by Margelatu for the benefit of the "Brotherhood".

The Silver Mask

1985

Ábel a rengetegben poster
7.5

The film is set in Transylvania in the 1920s, a region that was then part of Romania under the peace treaties following the First World War. The protagonist, Abel, is a resourceful teenage boy who is forced to leave his parents and his home because of poverty. His father accompanies him to the snowy mountains, where he is the guardian of a forest owned by the bank of a neighbouring town, where he oversees the firewood that is being harvested. Up there, he has only himself to rely on. Áron Tamási's beautiful story is about the relationship between man and nature, man and man.

Ábel a rengetegben

1994

Across de Lifting Gate poster
7.8

Vulpașin is desperatley in love with Nastasia, but she is partial to Luca, which works at a factory outside the slum they live in ("accros the lifting gate").

Across de Lifting Gate

1965

At the Age of Love poster
7.8

Mihai is expelled from college and sentenced to prison for a DUI accident. After his term in prison, he is hired at a construction site to be "re-educated"

At the Age of Love

1963

Tufă de Veneția poster
7.4

A lunatic conductor-director brings to light a kaleidoscope of characters from a kind of insect. Comedy in "zig-zag" from smile to laugh, inspired by a book by humorist Valentin Silvestru.

Tufă de Veneția

1977

The Cyclists Are Coming poster
5.9

The humorous adventures of an all-male team of cyclists training for an upcoming important bike race.

The Cyclists Are Coming

1968

No artwork available
8.7

A group of students from an architectural institute, instead of going to the mountains, accidentally end up in a vacation home by the sea. Here, after a series of amusing adventures, they successfully perform with their amateur variety orchestra.

Vacanta la mare

1963

No Trespassing poster
7.2

In August 1944, students at the military school for officers must defend the country's border from the Nazis during the Battle of Păuliș in Romania's northwestern border.

No Trespassing

1975

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

Of Their Own Free Will poster
NR

Agnes and Matei, two young people from a village in Transylvania, are deeply in love and wish to marry, despite the bitter feud between their parents. When Matei leaves to join the army, Agnes discovers she is pregnant. To escape her father's wrath, she flees her home and seeks refuge with Matei's father. However, after being insulted by him one evening, she leaves that home as well, only to suffer a terrible accident. Meanwhile, Matei receives news that completely upturns the course of the story.

Of Their Own Free Will

1975

Agnus Dei poster
5.0

Allegory of the suppression of the 1919 revolution and the advent of fascism in Hungary; in the countryside, a unit of the revolutionary army spares the life of father Vargha, a fanatical priest. He comes back and leads massacres. A new force, represented by Feher, apparently avenges the people, but only to impose a different, more refined and effective kind of repression.

Agnus Dei

1971

The Saturday Night Dance poster
8.6

Truck driver Papa (Sebastian Papaiani) carrying food for a large construction site canteen, falls in love with two girls.

The Saturday Night Dance

1968

Stephen the Great: Vaslui 1475 poster
7.5

In 1475 when Stephen the Great, ruler of Moldavia is facing an invading Ottoman army of 120 000 men, the fate of Christian Europe largely depends on the battle's outcome.

Stephen the Great: Vaslui 1475

1975

Sacra Corona poster
5.3

Sacra Corona is a historical feature film released to commemorate the millennium of the state's founding. The story deals with the 11th-century throne struggles of the House of Árpád.

Sacra Corona

2001

The Youth Elixir poster
6.2

An old geriatrics professor accidentally discovers after a high-school reunion a potion that can rejuvenate anybody and uses it on him and his friends. They all go their new youthful ways but, for most of them, things don't go according to plan.

The Youth Elixir

1975