Psychologist Kris Kelvin is about to embark on an interstellar journey to a space station orbiting the remote oceanic planet Solaris. He spends his last day on Earth reflecting on his life while walking by a lake near his childhood home where his elderly father still resides. Upon his arrival at Solaris Station, none of the three remaining scientists bother to greet Kelvin, ...
Forced in bed by a sickness, Alexei pounders about his life, mixing past present, reality and imagination. He thinks back to his father who abandoned his mother and this reminds him of his actual situation. The man is living a similar situation: he divorced from his wife Natalija and has a son, Ignat, who refuses to see him. The same actress plays the role of his mother and ...
During a fight with a group of other children, Sasha, a seven years old violinist, is defended by a steamroller driver. Thanks to the friendship with this man, Sasha will learn to face the difficulties in life. Tarkovskij's final diploma work.
Helén and Jenö are waiting for a child and are desperately searching for an accomodation. They eventually sign a contract with an old lady, Szeréna, who lives in a two-family house. According to the contract, they are to pay a moderate rent and they have to take care of her until her death. After the first weeks, Szeréna accuses the couple of trying to poison her and build...
In the summer of 1968, three friends, Réb, Makay and Nikita decided to leave Hungary. Only Makay obtained his passport, but Reb stole it and took off for the U.S. Seventeen years later, he comes back to Hungary with a teen-age daughter, Marylou, and starts in with his usual underhanded, sly schemes for making money. His idea is to leave his daughter to her mother and take ad...
The movie tells the story of Karrer, a depressed man who carries a secluded life, left out from everything and everybody. He spends his days walking adrift and his night s at a local bar, the Titanik, where he falls in love for a married torch singer. One day he is offered smuggling work by the bartender at the bar, but he offers the job to the husband of the singer to get h...
Therese's life, a waiter in a bar of Budapest, is filled with worries and stress. She lies with her son Robert, twenty years old, who doesn't know his father. Therese falls in love with László, a middle class police man, who moves into their house, bringing with him the hope of a peaceful family life, but soon enough, Robert's real interest becomes clearer. He is not interes...
Gli abitanti del paese delle favole sono riuniti nel castello per un grande avvenimento: la Bella Addormentata dovrebbe svegliarsi da un momento all’altro dopo aver dormito per cento anni. Accadono però alcune cose sospette. Alcuni personaggi buoni scompaiono, e lupi, streghe, draghi e giganti prendono il potere. Nessuno è in grado di opporre resistenza. ...
Tamás, a young coal miner, and Juli, a kindergarten teacher, meet in the summer of 1999. Both too bashful to declare their love to each other, their tender friendship delays to turn into love. On the 31st December, Juli decides to write to Tamás. She will wait for him at 10 that evening at Rocher bar. Tamás reads and reads again the letter, while his team leader is reading t...
In Miskolc, in 1982, a teenager shoots with a rifle to his father, without any reason, apparently. The mother, who just came back for the hospital, will find out what her son did a few days after. The boy is now in prison, where he must stay for thirteen years. His father's dream was to open again a shooting gallery. The film won the Rosa Camuna prize at Bergamo Film Meetin...
