42 Films & TV Shows Set In Hungary During The 20th Century
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The Secret Ways
🇦🇹 Austria 🇭🇺 Hungary The 1960s The 1950sOn-the-spot realism! — Vienna, 1956. After Soviet tanks crush the Hungarian uprising, soldier-of-fortune Mike Reynolds is hired to help a threatened Hungarian scientist (Prof. Jansci) escape from Budapest. He and Julia, the professor's daughter, cross the boulder posing as journalists, but they encounter a problem. The staunch freedom fighter doesn't want to go!
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I sogni muoiono all'alba
🇭🇺 Hungary The 1950sFive Italian journalists live the last hours of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.
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The Journey
🇭🇺 Hungary The 1950sA Communist officer falls hard for a married woman trying to escape from Hungary.
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The Beast of Budapest
🇭🇺 Hungary The 1950sThe Teenage Legions Of Bloody Glory! — Archival footage combined with new footage re-creates the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. It is also a love story between a devout communist woman and the liberal son of a prominent professor. Because of their political differences, the two can never be together.
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Professor Hannibal
🇭🇺 Hungary The 1930sA school teacher becomes a momentary hero after having rescued a stuffed-bird from a school incident.
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I Often Think of Piroschka
🇭🇺 Hungary The 1920sAndreas, a young German student comes to Hungary on an exchange programme. In the Hungarian village he falls in love with the stationmaster's daughter Piroschka and spends much of his time with her. They have an enchanting summer until Andreas gets an invitation to join another young woman at a nearby resort. Piroschka is jealous and follows him there, causing trouble. It takes a long time for Andreas and Piroschka to even talk to each other again. When Andreas has to leave Hungary at the end of his holiday, he is determined to return some day.
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Guilty of Treason
🇭🇺 Hungary The 1940sThe story of Cardinal Josef Mindzhenty, a Roman Catholic cardinal from Hungary who spoke out against both the Nazi occupation of his country during World War II and the Communist regime that replaced it after the war.
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Silva
🇦🇹 Austria 🇭🇺 Hungary The 1910sSilva Varescu, a self-sufficient and professionally successful cabaret performer from Budapest, is about to embark on a tour of America. Three of her aristocratic admirers, named Edwin, Feri and Boni, prefer her to stay. Edwin, unaware that his parents have already arranged a marriage for him back home in Vienna, orders a notary to prepare a promissory note of his expected marriage to Silva within ten weeks.
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The Good Fairy
🇭🇺 Hungary The 1930sIn 1930s Budapest, naïve orphan Luisa Ginglebuscher becomes an usherette at the local movie house, determined to succeed in her first job by doing good deeds for others and maintaining her purity. Luisa's well-meaning lies get her caught between a lecherous businessman, Konrad, and a decent but confused doctor, Max Sporum. When Luisa convinces Konrad that she's married to Max, Konrad tries everything he can to get rid of the baffled doctor.
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Stradivari
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The Black Cat
🇭🇺 Hungary The 1930sThings you never said before nor even dreamed of! — After a road accident in Hungary, the American honeymooners Joan and Peter and the enigmatic Dr. Werdegast find refuge in the house of the famed architect Hjalmar Poelzig, who shares a dark past with the doctor.
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Storm at Daybreak
🇦🇹 Austria 🇧🇦 Bosnia and Herzegovina 🇭🇺 Hungary The 1910sSarajevo June 28, 1914. Dushan, the Serbian mayor of a Hungarian town, has come to see the parade of Archduke Ferdinand. While there he runs into Geza, an old friend in the Hungarian Army and invites him to come to his house and visit him and his new wife.
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Melodie des Herzens
🇭🇺 Hungary The 1900sA young maid from the country looses her job as maid in k.u.k. Budapest, when she stays out too long with her beau, a soldier, who's saving money to buy a horse to open a transport company. After being unemployed for quite a while and her rent is long overdue, the landlady offers her a better job in a nightclub. Meanwhile the soldiers family has decided that her son should marry the daughter of a rich farmer. The soldier finds out about his girl friends profession, and accepts after struggling with himself the match his parents have made. At the day of his engagement his girl friend comes to his hometown with enough money to buy a horse, which leads to a conflict between her, the fiancee, her family, himself and his parents.
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The Gallant Hussar
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The Stolen Bride
🇦🇹 Austria 🇭🇺 Hungary The 1910sThe daughter of a count and the son of a shoemaker, both Hungarian, fall in love in America. As they're about to marry, the young woman is called back to Europe. When her betrothed goes after her, difficulties ensue.
