Irén Psota

Acting

Irén Psota

Born 1929-03-28 · Budapest, Hungary

Acting credits

Sunshine on the Ice poster
7.0

Klári, the dancer of the ice revue, is pursued by a mysterious admirer and his roses. Her husband, Rezső, is about to lose his wits with jealousy.

Sunshine on the Ice

1961

Electric Schock poster
7.0

This double-threaded story depicts the lives of a sister and a brother in a critical phase of their lives. Virág participates in a tour of the collage choir to Finland. Upon her return home she refuses the assistance offered by Vince, leaves the collage and aborts her child by a young Finn.

Electric Schock

1979

His Majesty's Dates poster
7.3

The chroniclers are diligently scribbling the history of life and deeds of the virtuous and wise King Matthias, who, in the meantime, sneaks out of the palace in disguise. Instead of attending a boring reception of the imperial deputies and papal legates, he pays his address to three pretty women from Szelistye.

His Majesty's Dates

1964

No artwork available
NR

The film constructs a strongly conventionalised and symbolic world out of the diary fragments of a man who underwent an alcohol detoxification treatment. The protagonist of this unusual family story, Petunia Joe, lives in a house with his mother and grandfather. One day, he suddenly turns adult. Out in LIFE, he takes his first steps in the Factory. Meaningless work is performed and barren relationships are formed among the rusted walls.

Erosion

1990

Haber's Photo Shop poster
7.3

A priest who has been set free from prison recently joins a spy organization.

Haber's Photo Shop

1963

The Last But One poster
9.0

Peti, the young parachutist starts concurring with his fellows during the training sessions: who dares to fall free longer? Orodán, his coach decides that if needed, he would use force to make him give up this perilous rowdiness.

The Last But One

1963

Crime at Dawn poster
10.0

Private inspector Hável happens to travel on the train which is attacked at Biatorbágy. His attention is drawn to a suspicious man, and in the next few days he confirms that it was indeed him who committed the crime. Yet the police accuses not the lunatic Marschalkó but the communists. Summary justice is declared.

Crime at Dawn

1960

A Very Moral Night poster
5.9

A brothel in a small Hungarian town becomes the home of a medical student after his favorite working girls find out he's out of rent money. Trouble brews as they learn his mother is coming for a visit and they must transform the house.

A Very Moral Night

1977

A Quiet Home poster
10.0

The composer Berki András, in his co-tenancy noisy with the barking of dogs and the hullabaloo of children, is unable to compose the new song for his fiancée, the singer, although the premiere is near. He cannot believe his eyes as he sees the official decision that he will soon get an apartment on his own. Yet his joy is soon over. The pharmacist Ács Éva arrives with identical documents. The situation which evolves as a result of the new co-tenancy forces them to cover up things before their partners.

A Quiet Home

1957

A Glass of Beer poster
6.3

Marci is drafted from a typical block building in the 6th district in Pest. He says good-bye to Juli living in the same house, with whom they are both very much fond of each other, but neither of them makes a confession. Juli works in a factory, and with her friend Gizus she goes out in the evening for dancing and drinking. After a year, Marci comes back for holiday, he is full of love.

A Glass of Beer

1955

Green Walnut poster
NR

The TV film based on the novel by Boris Palotai is the story of a teenage girl's coming of age.

Green Walnut

1976

Abhorrence poster
9.0

Nelli, the icy, introverted farm girl, needs to find a husband following her father's death. She accepts the attentions of the noisy Takaró Sanyi, although she is more attracted to his silent and modest younger brother.

Abhorrence

1965

It's Me, Jerome poster
8.5

The main characters of this satiric story poking fun at domestic labour ethic are two cleaners of the mains. Jeromos and his son drop in to doctor Katona's in order to clean the shit pit decorating the end of the garden. During the day work is being done in a very time consuming way, materials are missing, and the boss devotes more attention to his love affairs than to supervision.

It's Me, Jerome

1970

Pillar of Salt poster
9.0

In 1944, Feri Margittai escapes from the front, but his mother sends him away from home.

Pillar of Salt

1958

A bolond lány poster
NR

Examining magistrate Sévigné wants to make a career in Paris, mainly at the urging of his wife. She is assigned to investigate a murder case, the victim was a maid, the accused was the maid. The examining magistrate, against his orders, believes in her innocence and starts a thorough investigation. The interrogations reveal who the real murderer is.

A bolond lány

1980

A gyilkos köztünk van poster
NR

Hungarian TV movie based on the play by Robert Thomas (also the basis for '8 femmes', 2002).

A gyilkos köztünk van

1980

The Last Manuscript poster
8.0

This sarcastic drama is taken from the popular Hungarian novel by Tibor Dery. A terminally ill writer (Jozef Kroner) of national prominence watches as family and friends gather like vultures for his imminent demise. Relli (Alexander Bardini) smiles and pretends to be the writer's friend as he tries to get his hands on an unpublished manuscript. The opening scene is the highlight of the film. While the dead writer is being laid to rest in a national funeral, he emerges from the coffin and walks into his own grave while the mourners flee in terror.

The Last Manuscript

1987

A Husband for Susy poster
8.5

Zsuzsa and Jóska fall in love during the performances of the State Opera they both attend. But the young man is of the working class, and Mrs. Bodrogi does not wish to let her daughter marry below her social status.

A Husband for Susy

1960

No artwork available
8.0

Anika, the daughter of the Greek partisan refugee and the Hungarian medical student, Zoltán fall in passionate love. But Anika's mother wants her to marry a Greek, for she is very homesick and wants to go home. The under-age girl cannot protest.

Before God and Man

1968

The House Under the Rocks poster
6.2

Three people – a returned prisoner of war, his beautiful second wife, and the possessive, hunchbacked spinster who is his sister-in-law by his first marriage – are isolated in a little house under an extinct volcano, where each strives for personal happiness but is suffocated by their dependence on the others.

The House Under the Rocks

1959

Forbidden Marriage poster
8.5

Lilian, daughter of an English millionaire threatens her father that she will marry the first shady character turning up around her and will sing in bars just because her father wants her to marry someone whom she does not love.

Forbidden Marriage

1964

Deliver Us from Evil poster
6.8

Winter of 1944, the last days of the war. When the roads and houses ceased to exist and the bottom of the cellars become filled with life, when fortunes were lost and countries burned up, her used coat was only important to Mama, the cloak-room servant of a local dance-school. Her son stole it to sell it for twenty pengő. He did it because Aranka Fussbaum's love cost money. There is no honour left in such a destroyed world. Yet still they start looking for that coat... (Elemér Ragályi won Best camera with this movie in Montreal, 1979, and in Budapest, 1980.)

Deliver Us from Evil

1979

The Lion is Ready to Jump poster
4.0

SS doctor during the war worked on the serum of cancer, but discovered a terrible poison, one vial is enough to kill 100 000 people. 20 years after the war, the old Nazi gets out of prison, and the hunt for him and his discovery begins.

The Lion is Ready to Jump

1969

A Certain Major Benedek poster
8.0

On the eve of World War II, Major Benedek Zoltán is an embodiment of the service regulations in the army. He only discloses his feelings towards Anna, his brother's widow. An investigation is conducted in the regiment to identify Communists.

A Certain Major Benedek

1960