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  1. Rub, The (2018)

    Director
    Peter Lichter; Bori Mate
    Subject
    Drama; Shakespeare
    Distribution
    Hire, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 62 minutes), 50 euros (rental)

    Hour-long experiemental film using found footage ('ppropriated 35 mm strips’) that aims to explore the mind of Hamlet (Szabolcs Hajdu), who narrates over images of cult films and hand-painted film frames.

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  2. Vortex - Life in One of the Poorest Village in Hungary (2012)

    Subject
    Geography; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 76 minutes), £41.99

    Filmed over six months, in Hungarian with English subtitles, this documentary follows three families in the village of Told, one of the poorest villages in Hungary. Isolation, poverty and discrimination...

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  3. Everybody in Our Family (2012)

    Director
    Radu Jude
    Subject
    Film studies; Social Studies
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (BR Region free, 107 minutes), £19.99

    Recently divorced Marius plans to take his young daughter away on a weekend holiday. When things do not go as planned, he strikes out at those around him, and what began as comic drama soon turns bitter as...

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  4. Fateless (2006)

    Director
    Lajos Koltai
    Subject
    Film Studies; History; Literature
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 134 minutes), £19.99

    Imre Kertész’s adaptation of his own Nobel prize-winning novel (based on his childhood experiences) about a Jewish boy who tries to come to terms with the new hellish world that faces him when he is sent...

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  5. In the Flesh (1997 Film)

    Director
    Stuart Canterbury; Antonio Passolini
    Producer
    Anthony R. Lovett

    Porn film. An adaptation of Macbeth set in a castle in Budapest. Courtney Lehman (op cit) makes a case for the film being ‘a surprisingly faithful adaptation’ , offering a ‘provocative example of the...

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  6. Fairy Island (1995 Video)

    Director
    Nick Thorpe
    Producer
    Andrea Weichinger
    Subject
    Environmental science
    Distribution
    Sale, Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 30 min., 1999 sale: £30.00 (+VAT inc. p&p) (UK education)

    With the Danube irrecoverably changed by the massive Gabcivko hydro-electric dam in Slovakia and Hungarian people’s lifestyles under threat, the film looks back on the river’s past, featuring gold...

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  7. Coriolanus (1987 Television)

    Director
    Gábor Székely
    Subject
    Drama

    Hungarian television version of the play directed by Gábor Székely for the Katona József Színház with György Cserhalmi as Coriolanus.

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  8. Macbeth (1982 Film, Television)

    Director
    Bela Tarr
    Subject
    Drama

    A made-for-television film. A version of Macbeth. The film is comprised of two uninterrupted shots, the first a 5-minute segment preceding the credits and the remainder a 67-minute segment shot largely in...

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  9. Mephisto (1981 Film)

    Director
    István Szabó
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    Feature film. A study of Nazi Germany loosely based on personalities of the time. A provincial actor in 1920s and 1930s Germany finds his success is interrupted by Nazism. Based on the novel by Klaus Mann.

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  10. Mephisto (1981 Film)

    Director
    István Szabó

    Feature film which details the rise of a Faustian character who figuratively sells his soul in exchange for greatness. Hendrik Hoefgen (Brandauer) is the head of a state-funded theatre department who tires...

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