The Presence III
Two rabbis show the ruins of an abandoned synagogue to a group of primary school-age Jewish children, and stand by as the children dip bread in honey, drink wine, pray,…
The Presence II
Hungarian Rhapsody
The movie portrays a peasant revolt in Hungary in the early twentieth century.
Private Vices, Public Virtues
The setting is a Central European kingdom, near the turn of the century. Bored by his very proper wife, the youthful heir to the throne spends his time in amorous…
Electra, My Love
It has been fifteen years since the death of her father, Agamemnon, and Elektra still burns with hatred for Aegisztosz, who conspired with Elektra’s mother to kill him.
Red Psalm
Set in the 1890s on the Hungarian plains, a group of farm workers go on strike in which they face harsh reprisals and the reality of revolt, oppression, morality and…
Agnus Dei
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,…
The Red and the White
In 1919, Hungarian Communists aid the Bolsheviks’ defeat of Czarists, the Whites. Near the Volga, a monastery and a field hospital are held by one side and then the other.
The Round-Up
After the failure of the Kossuth’s revolution of 1848, people suspected of supporting the revolution are sent to prison camps. Years later, partisans led by outlaw Sándor Rózsa still run…
The Presence
Two old men enter an abandoned synagogue, look at the decay around them, and pray.
My Way Home
During WWII, a young Hungarian captured by the Soviets is left in the custody of a young Soviet soldier to assist him on a dairy farm.
An Indian Story
Still photographs and narration give an overview of the history of the American Indian.
Autumn in Badacsony
A celebration of the culture and the ancient traditions in Badacsony.