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Confidence

Drama · Academy Award Nominees · Period Drama

1980's Confidence was nominated for the Academy Award and Szabó won Berlin's Silver Bear for Best Director. In World War II-era Hungary, the resistance pairs two unrelated members to act as husband and wife in an effort to stay hidden in plain sight. Will they be able to maintain the illusion…

The Confrontation

Drama · Historic Drama · Religion

Paralleling the dramatic student protests and riots that were exploding across the world in the 1960s at the time the film was made, The Confrontation is a story of protest and rebellion. Set in 1947 Hungary when the Communist Party have just taken power, dancing, singing Communist students debate C…

Electra, My Love

Performing Arts · Drama · World Cinema

It has been fifteen years since the death of her father, Agamemnon, and Elektra, still burning with hatred towards his murderer, the tyrant Aegisztosz, attempts to rouse an apathetic population against the rule of this usurper. A richly inventive adaptation of the two-thousand-year-old Greek …

Kills on Wheels

Action & Adventure · Action · Crime

In this wildly original action-comedy – Hungary’s official submission to the 89th Academy Awards® – two teenaged boys living with disabilities find escape from their humdrum lives when they’re enlisted by a gruff ex-con to be his accomplices… as wheelchair hit men!

Master Shot: The Films of Miklós Jancsó

Music & Dance · Drama · Historic Drama

Kino Lorber is proud to bring to North American theaters this touring series featuring restorations of six films by Miklós Jancsó, "the greatest Hungarian film director of all time" (Béla Tarr). All films are restored in 4K from their original 35mm camera negative by Nation…

Mephisto

Academy Award Winners · Based on True Story · Drama

The 1981 Academy Award-winning (Best Foreign Language Film) Mephisto concerns a passionate, but struggling actor (Klaus Maria Brandauer) who remains in Germany during the Nazi regime and reaps the rewards of this Faustian pact by finally achieving the stardom he has long craved.

My Twentieth Century

Ildikó Enyedi’s fairytale-like, unconventional ironic film luminaire was awarded the Camera d'Or at Cannes in 1989. On the eve of the 20th century, two twin girls, Lili the anarchist and Dóra a luxurious woman of loose morals, along with Mr. Z. who loves them as an entity, all re…

Red Psalm

Drama · Historic Drama · Cannes Film Festival

Set on the Hungarian plains of the 1890s. When a group of farm workers go on a strike, demanding basic rights from a landowner, they are met with soldiers on horseback, facing harsh reprisals and the reality of revolt, oppression, morality and violence. Structured as a passion play. An awesom…

The Round-Up

Drama · Historic Drama · History

Miklós Jancsó’s most renowned work depicts a prison camp in the aftermath of the 1848 Hungarian Revolution. After the Hapsburg monarchy succeeds in suppressing Lajos Kossuth's nationalist uprising, the army sets about arresting suspected guerillas, who are subject to torture and …