Directing

Sándor Mihályfy

Known for

Directing

Credits

12 titles

Known for

The Stationmaster Meets His Match poster
7.7

The story of Bendegúz, the teenage boy who never succeeds in anything and about whom everybody's first though is "I wish you had been hanged when you were born!" drops out of school and becomes a cowboy. He works for the Stationmaster whose cows he has to graze by the railway. Despite his goodwill and kindheartedness he always manages to spoil everything he touches. No matter his wit, he gets into humiliating situations and regularly fights with the Ugly Witch (the Stationmaster's mother-in-law). However his good spirit and cheerfulness never leave him.

The Stationmaster Meets His Match

1980

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

Well of Silence poster
NR

Csendkút is a historical film drama made for the fiftieth anniversary of the 1956 revolution and freedom struggle and dedicated to the poet Attila Gérecz, the 1956 revolution and freedom struggle commemorating his martyrdom.

Well of Silence

2007

Abel in America poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Abel in America

1998

Máz poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Máz

1985

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

Behind the camera

The Stationmaster Meets His Match poster
7.7

The story of Bendegúz, the teenage boy who never succeeds in anything and about whom everybody's first though is "I wish you had been hanged when you were born!" drops out of school and becomes a cowboy. He works for the Stationmaster whose cows he has to graze by the railway. Despite his goodwill and kindheartedness he always manages to spoil everything he touches. No matter his wit, he gets into humiliating situations and regularly fights with the Ugly Witch (the Stationmaster's mother-in-law). However his good spirit and cheerfulness never leave him.

The Stationmaster Meets His Match

1980

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

Well of Silence poster
NR

Csendkút is a historical film drama made for the fiftieth anniversary of the 1956 revolution and freedom struggle and dedicated to the poet Attila Gérecz, the 1956 revolution and freedom struggle commemorating his martyrdom.

Well of Silence

2007

Abel in America poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Abel in America

1998

Máz poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Máz

1985

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

Telefonpapa poster
8.0

Andris, the film's protagonist, may have said his first words into a phone receiver. And for good reason: his father calls to check on his health, his mother calls to give him instructions about his lunch. Is it any wonder that Andris also makes friends over the phone?

Telefonpapa

1982

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

The Palisade Street Kidnapping poster
7.5

The Kondor family lives on the outskirts of Budapest, the father a truck driver abroad. The subtenant wants to act like the head of the family one day, but one of the children thwarts his wedding plans.

The Palisade Street Kidnapping

1985

Átok és szerelem poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Átok és szerelem

1985

Abel in the Country poster
3.7

After the great, lyrical adventure of Harghita, Abel's destiny takes him to the big city of Cluj-Napoca. Here, she needs a Székely wit for a different kind of world: she is taken to the house of a travelling quack-phogasier, where she not only learns the ways of easy money, but also of love.

Abel in the Country

1994

No artwork available
NR

One school year in an experimental school in socialist Hungary.

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