11 Films & TV Shows Set In Hungary During The 19th Century
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Van Helsing
🇫🇷 France 🇷🇴 Romania 🇭🇺 Hungary 🇮🇹 Italy 🇸🇰 Slovakia The 1880sThe One Name They All Fear. — Famed monster slayer Gabriel Van Helsing is dispatched to Transylvania to assist the last of the Valerious bloodline in defeating Count Dracula. Anna Valerious reveals that Dracula has formed an unholy alliance with Dr. Frankenstein's monster and is hell-bent on exacting a centuries-old curse on her family.
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Sunshine
🇭🇺 Hungary The 1950s The 19th CenturyIn a time of revolution, in a family torn by tradition, one man was consumed by love. — The story of a Jewish family living in Hungary—through three generations—rising from humble beginnings to positions of wealth and power in the crumbling Austro-Hungarian Empire. The patriarch becomes a prominent judge but is torn when his government sanctions anti-Jewish persecutions. His son converts to Christianity to advance his career as a champion fencer and Olympic hero, but is caught up in the Holocaust. Finally, the grandson, after surviving war, revolution, loss and betrayal, realizes that his ultimate allegiance must be to himself and his heritage.
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Memoirs of a River
🇭🇺 Hungary The 1880sIn the 19th century Austro-Hungarian Empire, David Hersko, a Jewish shepherd, witnesses the attack of a young girl. His home is burned down and he finds shelter with the family of a Jewish logger. The loggers find the body of a young woman which they bury, going against local laws. They are charged with her murder and it is believed that they killed her as a ritual murder.
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My Twentieth Century
🇭🇺 Hungary The 1880s The 1890sA tale of twin girls, Dóra and Lili, who are born in 1880 Budapest at the same moment Thomas Edison presents his electric lightbulb to the world. The sisters are soon orphaned and separated in childhood, and follow different paths: one grows up to be a naïvely idealistic, bomb-toting anarchist, the other a pampered, hedonistic courtesan. Their paths cross once again on the Orient Express on New Year s Eve 1899...
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Red Psalm
🇭🇺 Hungary The 1890sSet 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.
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The Round-Up
🇭🇺 Hungary The 1860sSet in a detention camp in Hungary in 1869 at a time of guerilla campaigns against the ruling Austrians.
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Sissi: The Fateful Years of an Empress
🇵🇹 Portugal 🇦🇹 Austria 🇭🇺 Hungary 🇬🇷 Greece 🇮🇹 Italy 🇩🇪 Germany The 1860sAfter a wonderful time in Hungary Sissi falls extremely ill and must retreat to a Mediterranean climate to rest. The young empress’ mother takes her from Austria to recover in Madeira.
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The Sea has Risen
🇭🇺 Hungary The 19th CenturyMarch 15, 1848; the revolution breaks out in the town of Pest. Yet at café Pilvax, in among he revolutionary youth, there is the informer of the imperial court as well. Hearing the news of the attack led by Jellasics, the inhabitants of the villages pour into the national army, and Hajdú Gyurka also escapes from his landlord. Petőfi is there at the camp of the revolutionaries, raising them to enthusiasm with his poetry.
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Caravan
🇭🇺 Hungary The 19th CenturyA countess marries a Gypsy fiddler instead of a baron's son at harvest time in Tokay wine country, Hungary.
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The Yellow Lily
🇦🇹 Austria 🇭🇺 Hungary The 1890sArchduke Alexander (Clive Brook) is better known for his sexual conquests than his diplomatic triumphs. After a lifetime of loving 'em and leaving 'em, the Archduke finally meets a girl he can't leave, Hungarian lass Judith Peredy (Billie Dove). She resists his advances but can't hide the fact that she's in love with him. The Yellow Lily was the second of four cinematic collaborations between star Billie Dove and director Alexander Korda.
