Known for Acting
What can a very shy and very poor student do if he happens to be in love with an unapproachable top model? Actually, nothing. But if he can earn his tuition as a dishwasher boy in a posh hotel, he can occasionally, even if from a distance, meet the woman he loves. Of course, if the adored woman even runs over her admirer in the hotel car park and carries him to her own apartment to avoid a scandal, anything is possible.
Hungarian television play based on a drama (crime fiction, thriller) by hungarian writer Tibor Hámori.
1991, farewell in Budapest. Mária remembers the past in tears. Her husband, Tibor, a chemist and a target of the KGB, left their apartment one evening to fetch some cigarettes only to be found drowned in the shallow Lake Balaton the following day. Their son, Peter, a student in Western-Europe, was found dead on the Danube embankment.
Queen Guinevere sadly complains to her beloved handmaiden Peggy that her husband, King Arthur, has neglected her for years. The King spends all his time on the platform of the knight's tower or at the famous 'round table'. The women figure that only the good old wizard Merlin can help. Merlin sends Guinevere a powerful magic potion that will help her win back Arthur's love. The ladies bake the potion into a pudding, but it is accidentally eaten by Arthur's favorite knight, Lancelot. To complicate matters, Peggy is in love with Lancelot, but the knight's overdose of magic causes him to fall madly in love with the queen.
The science of Pál Varga is famous far and wide: no one can make shoes and topazes like him. The news reaches the court of King Dúlfúl, and the little princess gets it into her head to have him make her a shoe shoe. But her father sends his messenger to Paul Varga, but he is not up to the task, because a lot of poor girls' shoes are waiting to be repaired. Princess Tweety then decides to go to the boastful Varga herself. She dresses up as a maid and goes to the crow. All is well until the young master takes a measure of her. But then he finds that a servant girl who does hard work should not walk on such legs. Tweety reveals herself and finally gets Paul Varga to go to his father's court and submit to the trials.
Two arts students, András and Viktor who are writing their thesis on detective stories, make up a story and keep nagging the famous film-director, who just came back from Hollywood, until he undertakes the job. At night they work on the film, in which two youths kill a director returning from the US. In the morning the director is found dead - a knife in his back.
Marci, an impertinent crook buries his drunk parents and chooses to wander instead of becoming an apprentice.
Three people skilfully kidnap the company director, who never takes the responsibility, takes sleeping pills and spends his time feeding ornamental fish. The kidnappers turn out to be no other than the Engineer, the Technician and the Worker, who only wanted to avoid bankruptcy this way.
