Andrea Drahota

The First Two

After an unsuccessful marriage attempt Sasha needs to leave Budapest and her Hungarian boyfriend to continue her studies in the US. As the day progresses, their special bond makes separating in the morning a difficult choice.

A Harum-Scarum Family

The intellectual family Faragó lives a bit busy life, but ensures complete autonomy for its members in a tiny flat in Budapest, while the newly rich Belvizis in the neighbourhood have a luxury apartment and a conventional and purposeful life, sentencing their only daughter for solitude.

Csontvary

Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka the one-ideaed Hungarian painter was thought to be crazy by his peers, but he eventually became a significant artist.

That Lovely Green Grass

Misu is spending his summer holiday in an old block of flats in Budapest. The caretaker of the house, Poldi, a park attendant by occupation, is going to retire in a few days and he is afraid to think ahead of the years to come without grass and trees. An idea comes to Misu to spend the summer in an active way. He organises a working party to sod the inner court of the block of flats they live in. To achieve his plan, he has to make alliances with some people and to win the opponent to the idea, namely Kamilla, an insurance consultant. Their assistants in this mission will be the dustman and the coal deliverer and Piroska, a girl spending her holyday at Kamilla's.

Baleset

The Limits of Love

Zsófi, the young nurse is surprised to see how difficult it is for some people to change their habits. She uses rather strict methods to make people get used to cleanliness and healthy diet and to create a proper life style for the women when pregnant. Doctor Varga, who has lost faith in his wife, tends to accept the young nurse's clever arguments in more and more matters. Later he falls in love with the dynamic girl.

Fallow Land

The story of the film with a touch of journalistic atmosphere takes place in the autumn 1919 after the fall of the proletarian dictatorship. The main figure is Zilahy Kálmán, a high-school teacher, very much attracted to Ady's ideology. He is, at the same time, a rational minded sober character keeping a certain distance from the chaotic events. During the first months of the terror of the Whites, he takes a stand for his persecuted colleague, and with his wife's help, he hides Pálos, a Communist commissar in his flat.

Öt férfi komoly szándékkal

Mary is a young librarian in a factory library. She lives alone with her mother. Encouraged by her mother, she tries to find the right man by advertising. The candidates are: an agronomist, a foreign trader, a police reporter, a teacher, a rural journalist. The classifieds are not successful, but strangely enough, Mary is strengthened in her belief that one cannot be alone in the world.

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 violence.

A Rose Garden of Six Acres

Aunt Ilka, who likes company, opens her house standing in the middle of a six-acre rose garden in the little town for the golden youth of the town. As a result of her benevolence, the tenants are in the position to adore not only the roses but a nice bunch of to-be-married girls of the town.

The Face

The film take place in Budapest, in the end of The World War II, telling the story of a young Communist who escaped from prison. The boy tries to revitalise his contact with the movement, but he is told to be quiet and wait.

Just a Phone Call

It is a musical comedy about the difficulties of forced education. Kati is scheduled to learn agriculture though she is a lot more interested in maths.