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Nobody's Daughter
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Nobody's Daughter(1976)

7.7
83Minutes

Nobody's Daughter is a poignant drama that follows the heartbreaking journey of an orphan girl who faces tragedy, exploitation, and abuse. Set in a world of poverty and brutality, the film explores themes of child neglect, pedophilia, rape, and the horrors of child slavery. The story delves into the girl's personal tragedy, including her experiences with poisoning, love, butchering pigs, and her ultimate struggle for survival. Based on a novel, Nobody's Daughter is a raw and powerful exploration of the dark realities faced by vulnerable children.

Elie Wiesel Goes Home
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Elie Wiesel Goes Home(1996)

7.2
108Minutes

A documentary chronicling the adolescent years of Elie Wiesel and the history of his sufferings. Eliezer was fifteen when Fascism brutally altered his life forever. Fifty years later, he returns to Sighetu Marmatiei, the town where he was born, to walk the painful road of remembrance - but is it possible to speak of the unspeakable? Or does Auschwitz lie beyond the capacity of any human language - the place where words and stories run out?

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Maybe Tomorrow
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Maybe Tomorrow(1980)

5.8
104Minutes

A couple in love, but sadly married to other partners. What is to be done? A diagnosis of a comfortable but profoundly incapable society, a Hungary suffering from an endemic private life disorder, observable both among the urban middle and the rural lower classes. A descent into a relationship’s demise, more from the tired inertia of a country that has lost all direction and sense of purpose than any ill will.

The Eighth Day of the Week
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The Eighth Day of the Week(2006)

6.4
100Minutes

After her husband's death, Hanna Szendroy, the former primadonna, is caught in the claws of the real estate mafia. She looses her lavish home and ends up homeless at the Keleti train station. When she returns to her house, now full of homeless people moved in by the real estate mafia, an unexpected relationship brings hope into her life again.

The Lady from Constantinople
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The Lady from Constantinople(1969)

7
79Minutes

Persuaded by the janitor's wife, a lively, but lonesome old woman, who is only attached to the world through her cherished objects and memories, decides to exchange her two-room apartment for a smaller one. For a little while her everyday life is changed. She meets and entertains new people every day.

How Long Does Man Live?
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How Long Does Man Live?(1968)

8.3
60Minutes

How Long Does a Man Live? is a 1968 documentary that delves into the life of a man who resides in a village. The film explores his experiences, relationships, and the challenges he faces throughout his life.

Encounter
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Encounter(1963)

7.5
23Minutes

A man, a woman, an afternoon, a city, and an unspoken, hopeful desire to find love by way of the personal ads. A milestone of Hungarian cinema, Elek uses documentary techniques in a fiction context to make the frailty of everyday life as palpable as possible.

A Commonplace Story
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A Commonplace Story(1976)

7
104Minutes

The second part of Judit Eleks long-term documentary about two girls and their lives in a small Hungarian village. What has become of their dreams and hopes?

After All the Dead Sing Again...
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After All the Dead Sing Again...(2018)

72Minutes

The film sums up the results of a massive endeavour in historical restoration and reconstruction, then recording Elek became engaged with: that of the Chasidic songs Hungarian/Romanian composer Max/Miksa/Mihai Eisikovits wrote down in 1938-39 – purely phonetically, without knowing either Yiddish or Hebrew or Aramaic.

Memories of a River
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Memories of a River(1989)

6.6
147Minutes

In 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.

A Free Man – The Life of Ernő Fisch
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A Free Man – The Life of Ernő Fisch(1998)

107Minutes

Erno Fisch, the film's protagonist, was born in 1903 in Sighet, the same small town as his world-famous compatriot, Elie Wiesel. Erno Fisch was the only Jew in his town that survived the Holocaust. He escaped deportation by hiding in the forest for six months. From his memories, we find out about everyday life in the area, which later became a part of Romania. Erno Fisch lived in an era when being Jewish did not mean being different, and when he could go to a Catholic school, just because it was closer. His life-story exemplifies the fact that resignation is not the only answer to the challenges of life and history.

Maria's Day
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Maria's Day(1984)

6.5
113Minutes

The Hungarian Maria's Day is set in that most fateful of years, 1848. The incredible changes and reverses in European politics and culture exert a potent influence on one aristocratic Hungarian family. Losing virtually everything in the way of creature comforts, the family tries to keep up appearances. Eventually every member of the clan falls victim to illness, syphilis and their own headstrong foolishness. The parallels drawn by director Judith Elek between the dissipation of 19th century Hungarian aristocracy and the corruption of Communist ideology in modern times are inescapable.

Awakening
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Awakening(1995)

6.8
104Minutes

1952, Budapest. Kati is thirteen years old when her mother dies. Her father works as a founder at the Miskolc foundry, deprived of his former position of director-engineer. Kati is left alone in their flat, transformed into a place crowded with tenants. That is, not quite: in her imagination her mother is alive again, for she still needs her.

The Trial of Martinovics and the Hungarian Jacobins
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The Trial of Martinovics and the Hungarian Jacobins(1985)

8.6
127Minutes

For this austere, clear and sharp telefeature, Judit Elek focused on the last months of Martinovics’ life: his interrogation by the Austrians, the examining Magistrate Schilling in particular, shown as a battle of wits as well as delusions on both sides. Elek had wanted to make this film in the early 1970s, but wasn’t allowed to. When she finally got the chance, the reactions were predictable, as the parallels with recent Hungarian history were simply too obvious for officialdom not to feel anxious. History may not repeat itself, but the variations look eerily similar.

Inhabitants of Castles in Hungary in 1966
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Inhabitants of Castles in Hungary in 1966(1967)

7.1
27Minutes

A look at the present use of several Hungarian castles whose former owners in some cases are still around, but kept out of sight for being relics of a society the new rulers finished off.

Retrace
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Retrace(2011)

6.9
98Minutes
On the Field of God in 1972-73
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On the Field of God in 1972-73(1974)

7.3
78Minutes

The first part of Judit Eleks long-term documentary portraits the lives of two girls in a small Hungarian village: Marika and Ilonka. As they grow up, they have to decide between working and learning or marrying at the age of 15 and living up to their parents' expectations.

Tamás Cseh: The First Photo
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Tamás Cseh: The First Photo(1974)

37Minutes

In March 1974, Hungarian television recorded a concert by Tamás Cseh and Ad Libitum as a live concert for two days (16-17) in the largest lecture hall of the Budapest University of Technology in front of a crowded student audience. The recording was made in black and white on magnetic tape by a car that drove up to the building.

A television documentary about miners: the reality of their work versus how it is made to look and sound in the public sphere.

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Judit Elek

Judit Elek (born 10 November 1937; Budapest) is a Hungarian film director and screenwriter. She has directed 16 films between 1962 and 2006. Her film Mária-nap was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival. She graduated in 1961 from the Academy of Drama and Film in Budapest (now the University of Theatre and Film Arts Budapest), and joined Mafilm as an assistant director. She is one of the founders of the Béla Balász Studio for young filmmakers. Between 1962 and 2011, she made multiple short films, documentaries and features. The renowned film Mária-nap (1984) screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival. She was also one of the participants in the IFFR jubilee project 25 Encounters. Elek’s films are the subject of a focus programme at IFFR 2023, featuring titles such as Találkozás (1963), Kastélyok lakói (1966) and Istenmezején, 1972-73-ban (1974).

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