Kati Lázár

Acting

Kati Lázár

Born 1948-12-14 · Oradea [Nagyvárad], Romania

Acting credits

Werckmeister Harmonies poster
7.9

A naive young man witnesses an escalation of violence in his small hometown following the arrival of a mysterious circus attraction.

Werckmeister Harmonies

2001

The Prosecution poster
8.5

The Christmas of 1944. The Pásztor family (father, mother, four daughters and a grandchild), are spending the holidays at their country farm. Péter, mothers apple of the eye, soon arrives, and has no objections when his soldiers uniform is made to disappear during the night. The Soviet army, arriving in the footsteps of the fleeing Hungarian army, is commandeering. At night, the soldiers turn up at the house where young women are abiding.

The Prosecution

1996

Whoops poster
7.0

Ede (Dezso Garas) is in his sixties, and he is full of uncertainty about how he and his wife Kati (Mari Torocsik) will fare in the new post-communist regime in Hungary. At least before, he had some idea what he needed to do to get by, and even if he never made much money with his myriad schemes, they got by. Kati has got a real bug in her ear about their livelihood, and is hounding him to get into the spirit of the new system. This is troubling enough for the old gent, but when he runs into an old mistress (Kati Lazar) and discovers that he has a grown son he has never met or knew about, his life becomes even more confusing. His slimy ex big-shot brother-in-law (Istvan Avar) is a major player in the new entrepeneurial risk-taking, and he beseiges poor Ede with advice as well. In this topical comedy, all these worrisome things, and more, come to a head at a big family celebrtion.

Whoops

1993

No artwork available
3.6

International peace conference, events take place in the last week of 1899. Tragic love story between Vilma, daughter of the Austro-Hungarian envoy/ambassador, and Zoluk of Montenegro.

Peace Conference, or the Century Lasts Until Thursday

1989

After the Day Before poster
6.7

The details of a young girl's brutal murder are told through manipulated chronology and fragmented storylines.

After the Day Before

2004

Time poster
6.0

Peter Gothar films give a sharp, uncensored view of the society. This film is no different. The plot is rather simple: a family goes to vacation with the usual stress. Then on the vacation the wife gets a strange kind of sickness and they go back to Budapest for a cure. While the wife is in the hospital, the husband visits his family. This is quite banal. However the scenario was written by Peter Esterhazy, one of the most influential contemporary writers in Hungary. His style uses a lot of surrealism but in a way that profoundly illuminates the reality. In this film, the reality is an atomized society where the so-called communist ideals are nowhere so everyday people are fully disoriented.

Time

1986

Rosehill poster
9.0

The film shows the times directly before and after the revolution of 1956 in a Rosehill villa and its garden, guarded by the state security, from the perspective of a powerful party functionary’s children living there. The children witness a lot of things they do not understand, mysterious things, which they interpret in their own way.

Rosehill

2003

Fluke poster
7.0

In the tradition of "My Sweet Little Village" and "Waking Ned Devine" FLUKE is a satire about a small village full of colorful characters, whose lives radically change due to a miracle. Or a simple crime.

Fluke

2008

Twilight poster
7.1

In the dense and murky woodlands of provincial Hungary, the search for a child murderer drags a once-respected detective into an all-consuming obsession enshrouded by irresolution and despair, even long after he has been taken off the case. What emerges is not a crime story, but a harrowing venture through the darkness of the human soul.

Twilight

1990

Sunset poster
5.9

In 1913, an orphaned young woman arrives in Budapest to take up employment as a milliner at the hat store that belonged to her late parents but becomes mired in a search for a brother she had never known of.

Sunset

2018

The Courage of Eva Koller poster
NR

Hungary, 1948. The Stalinist regime is settling in on the ruins of the war. A young woman meets a stranger in an elevator. She recognizes him from another life, and soon has to make a complicated decision.

The Courage of Eva Koller

2018

The Man from London poster
7.0

A switchman at a seaside railway witnesses a murder but does not report it after he finds a suitcase full of money at the scene of the crime.

The Man from London

2008

Bet on Revenge poster
6.7

The new owner of a brilliant race horse finds love while carrying out his revenge on the man who murdered his father.

Bet on Revenge

2017

Dollybirds poster
6.7

The movie is set in the actual "Ki Mit Tud?" talent contest in 1962. In reality the contest in dance music category was won by an army brass band. "Omega" which later became one of the most successful Hungarian rock bands came out in the second place.

Dollybirds

1997

A kőmajmok háza poster
NR

The story stars teenager Kornél, who is raised alone by his mother and suffers from asthma, which often prevents him from playing with his friends, and Gyuri, who is the same age as Kornél, but lived in the same house 30 years ago. During the summer holidays, a strange little girl turns up and tells Kornél amazing stories about the house's inhabitants and their mysterious past. Iza inhabits a whole little magical universe in which everything and everyone has wonderful properties and abilities. The boy and the girl embark on a joint investigation to find the former Garaboncias, Kornél's father, who has been kidnapped by the evil Shadow Robbers (Peritons)...

A kőmajmok háza

2014

Where Were You, My Son? poster
4.1

Set in a large apartment in Hungary during the death throes of communism, obedient Andor lives with his eccentric mother, Rebeka, a once-celebrated stage actress-turned-recluse. After years of coexisting in a love-hate relationship marked by routine and possible incest, Andor brings home Eszter, a beautiful girl his own age. Her advances awaken Andor's repressed desires, the depths of which prove shocking. Opera director Robert Alfoldi renders this bizarre story in a melodramatic style, and veteran Hungarian stage star Dorottya Udvaros rises to the occasion. If you can imagine the intersecting area on a Venn diagram that includes Taxidermia and Sunset Blvd., that's where Where Were You, My Son? was born. The original title, Nyugalom, which translates to Tranquility, is ironic to say the least. ...over the-top...memorable...thunderous...sex and violins (Variety).

Where Were You, My Son?

2008

The Kangaroo poster
8.2

Istvan Varju a.k.a. Kanya is a track driver. He drives alone on the roads and listens to the radio. We're In the middle of seventies, the radio broadcasts hungarian beat music. He is convinced that interesting and significant events in the life happen on the roads, so we should go, go and go in order not to miss something.

The Kangaroo

1976

Riddance poster
6.4

Jutka, a young woman who works in a factory, falls in love with Andras, a university student. She pretends to be a student, to him and to his parents, and begins to live a lie. Finally she rebels against Andras and his demands and the social conventions that forced her to live a lie.

Riddance

1973

Bakkermann poster
2.7

The story of hopelessness, which is independent and politics. Symbolic little people are faced with the absurdly large accelerated world. Resolutely themselves taken up the challenge, bravely struggling against fate ...

Bakkermann

2008

Anna filmje poster
8.5

One summer morning, Anna tells her husband, the writer, that she is in a blessed state, but that she doubts whether she should have a fourth child in addition to the three she already has, because "having children here is, to put it mildly, illogical". This decision is explored in the film as events of the present are interspersed with memories of the past.

Anna filmje

1993

Embryos poster
8.0

Teréz is an obstetrician-gynaecologist. After her regular working hours she conducts a sociological survey about why couples do not have more children.

Embryos

1986

We Never Die! poster
6.7

In 1960s Hungary, an introverted teenager’s life is turned upside down by a few days in the company of his coat hanger salesman uncle: a roguish charmer with a zest for life and a weakness for horse racing and women.

We Never Die!

1993

Hungarian Fragment poster
4.3

Peter falls in love with Lena, a Bulgarian female student in the days of the 1956 revolution. They were both involved in the events of the Revolution, enthusiastically recount their experiences of an American journalist. The boy's parents leave the country, but he did not go with them.

Hungarian Fragment

1998

School of Senses poster
5.4

Hungarian erotic thriller based on the novel Erzekek Iskolaja. Lily, a young gypsy girl, falls madly in love with a dashing salesman who introduces her to life's pleasures. When Lili discovers he is engaged to another, her life begins to spiral downward.

School of Senses

1996