László Mensáros

László Mensáros

Born: January 26, 1926
Died: February 7, 1993
in Budapest, Hungary

Movies for László Mensáros...

Vigilantes
Title: Vigilantes
Character: Balázsi
Released: November 26, 1993
Type: Movie
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After All
Title: After All
Released: March 18, 1991
Type: Movie
Leaving his family behind after a conflict with his colleagues, a leading editor at Hungary's state television network travels alone to his country house in the Badacsony region, and reflects on his past, his guilt and the old compromises.
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Édes Anna
Title: Édes Anna
Released: November 30, 1989
Type: Movie
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Title: Kémeri
Character: Ezredes
Released: July 4, 1985
Type: TV
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Colonel Redl
Title: Colonel Redl
Character: Oberst Ruzitska
Released: March 29, 1985
Type: Movie
Set during the fading glory of the Austro-Hungarian empire, the film tells of the rise and fall of Alfred Redl, an ambitious young officer who proceeds up the ladder to become head of the Secret Police only to become ensnared in political deception.
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The Long Ride
Title: The Long Ride
Character: Dr. Josef Dussek
Released: December 8, 1983
Type: Movie
This movie is about the love and protection of a man from another culture for the lowly horsemen of the the plains in Hungary during World War II.
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Klapka-Legion
Title: Klapka-Legion
Released: August 23, 1983
Type: Movie
1866. The Habsburg monarchy fight a war against the Italians and the Prussians. General Klapka, who emigrated to England after the fall of the 1848-49 freedom fight of Hungary, exploits the situation and organises a Hungarian legion with the help of the Prussians, then attacking the Austrians in their back sets out to return to Hungary.
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Napos oldal
Title: Napos oldal
Released: January 2, 1983
Type: Movie
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A Bright Star at the Stake
Title: A Bright Star at the Stake
Released: January 1, 1979
Type: Movie
This film takes place in Paris and Geneva in the 1530s and 1550s. Kálvin János and Szervét Mihály are school mates in Paris. The university students celebrate the victory of the Reformation with Kálvin's "Institution", written under a pseudonym.
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141 Minutes from the Unfinished Sentence
Title: 141 Minutes from the Unfinished Sentence
Character: Parcen Nagy Károly
Released: February 6, 1975
Type: Movie
This lavishly spectacular film focuses on the character of Lorinc Parcen Nagy from the 1200-page Tibor Déry novel interwoven with numerous autobiographical elements. Lorinc Parcen Nagy is the offspring of an upper middle class family, whose life is marked by two violent deaths: the suicide of his father and the slaughter of an innocent worker. He breaks with his family and his mother in disgust; she is of weak character, a person who abandoned her own husband. He is also unable to discover the right tone with his colleagues and his lover who is an illegal party worker.
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Who is in the Egg?
Title: Who is in the Egg?
Character: Keve Elemér professzor
Released: May 23, 1974
Type: Movie
Zeke, the agile young meteorologist finds out at once that the Szélervé Meteorological Research Institute is dealing exclusively with illegal poultry export. What is more, the genial director Keve invented an artificial hen laying 150 gigantic eggshells at a time.
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Aranyborjú
Title: Aranyborjú
Released: April 25, 1974
Type: Movie
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The Myth-Makers
Title: The Myth-Makers
Released: January 1, 1974
Type: Movie
Eighteen years after the failure of the revolution and freedom fighting 1848-49, the politicians of Hungary preparing for a compromise with Austria try to make use of the symbol of the revolution, the figure of the poet Petőfi Sándor, to their own advantage. They visit all the memorial sites, find the witnesses and recall the famous events. Memories and political intentions conflict with each other, and the circumstances of the poet's death cannot be reconstructed entirely.
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Innocent Assassins
Title: Innocent Assassins
Character: Mr. George Vallay, filmrendezõ
Released: August 23, 1973
Type: Movie
Two arts students, András and Viktor who are writing their thesis on detective stories, make up a story and keep nagging the famous film-director, who just came back from Hollywood, until he undertakes the job. At night they work on the film, in which two youths kill a director returning from the US. In the morning the director is found dead - a knife in his back.
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Fallow Land
Title: Fallow Land
Character: Sághy- Igazgató
Released: March 8, 1973
Type: Movie
The story of the film with a touch of journalistic atmosphere takes place in the autumn 1919 after the fall of the proletarian dictatorship. The main figure is Zilahy Kálmán, a high-school teacher, very much attracted to Ady's ideology. He is, at the same time, a rational minded sober character keeping a certain distance from the chaotic events. During the first months of the terror of the Whites, he takes a stand for his persecuted colleague, and with his wife's help, he hides Pálos, a Communist commissar in his flat.
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Kidnapping - Hungarian Style
Title: Kidnapping - Hungarian Style
Released: January 1, 1972
Type: Movie
Three people skilfully kidnap the company director, who never takes the responsibility, takes sleeping pills and spends his time feeding ornamental fish. The kidnappers turn out to be no other than the Engineer, the Technician and the Worker, who only wanted to avoid bankruptcy this way.
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Gypsy Princess
Title: Gypsy Princess
Character: Feri bácsi
Released: December 23, 1971
Type: Movie
Kálmán Imre's beloved operetta comes to the screen in this comedy of music, marriage and class set in Budapest and Vienna before the outbreak of the First World War, recorded at the Budapest Opera in 1963.
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Hold on to the Clouds
Title: Hold on to the Clouds
Character: Бенце Рокателли
Released: August 26, 1971
Type: Movie
In 1919, in Petrograd, a pilot Sevastyanov was asked to help in training flight personnel for the young Hungarian republic, together with a Hungarian journalist he makes a desperate, with many adventures, flight across the front to Hungary ...
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Love
Title: Love
Character: The doctor
Released: January 21, 1971
Type: Movie
Luca regularly visits her bedridden mother-in-law. Luca's husband, János, has been arrested on a trumped up political charge, and Luca does not know if he is still alive. Luca hides this from his mother by making up letters purporting to be from János who is directing a big film in New York. Luca discovers that János is alive, and is dismissed from her teaching job because of her husband. The dying mother anxiously awaits the return of her son from New York.
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The Face
Title: The Face
Character: Dominus
Released: April 2, 1970
Type: Movie
The film take place in Budapest, in the end of The World War II, telling the story of a young Communist who escaped from prison. The boy tries to revitalise his contact with the movement, but he is told to be quiet and wait.
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A Journey Around My Skull
Title: A Journey Around My Skull
Character: Barát a könyvtárban
Released: March 5, 1970
Type: Movie
The film is a story of a double journey. The main character of the first journey is the author himself, who, while sitting in his customary café, suddenly realises that he has hallucinations. The psychologist reassures him that all this is merely repression. The symptoms, however, appear again. Soon it turns out that the author has a brain tumour. Professor Pötzl in Vienna suggests operation right away. The intervention, through which he is awake, is carried out in a Stockholm clinic.
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A Mad Night
Title: A Mad Night
Character: I. Ellenõr
Released: January 8, 1970
Type: Movie
The grotesque comedy with crime elements takes place in a grocery store.
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The Tragedy of Man
Title: The Tragedy of Man
Character: Lucifer
Released: November 11, 1969
Type: Movie
Starting with the expulsion from the Garden of Eden, Adam, Eve and Lucifer travel through history, from Ancient Egypt through the nineteenth century, into a distant and uncertain future.
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Impostors
Title: Impostors
Character: Admirális
Released: October 9, 1969
Type: Movie
This grotesque historical film is a caricature of the narrow-minded and careerist oligarchs of the 20s. A young military officer stops the young jurist from killing himself and recommends him to his commander, lieutenant-colonel Doborján as a typist.
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Historical Private Affairs
Title: Historical Private Affairs
Released: January 1, 1969
Type: Movie
A light comedy of four love-stories.
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The Lost Generation
Title: The Lost Generation
Character: Ferenczi
Released: February 15, 1968
Type: Movie
The engineer Ambrus has been suspended in his job because he publicly called the attention of the customers to a construction mistake of some goods designed to be exported. His immediate boss learns the news on a business trip to Paris. He meets his old friend Lendvay, an emigrant from Hungary, and his French wife in a cellar bar. After their talk Benkő starts seeing things in a different perspective. When he returns home, he decides to take a stand for Ambrus against Ferenczi, the general director, despite his wife's and the old director's advice.
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Nyár a hegyen
Title: Nyár a hegyen
Character: Dr. Szabó
Released: August 13, 1967
Type: Movie
Komora, a young painter and his friends, Mari, a teacher, and the elderly doctor, Szabó, buy a barrack-building situated at the foot of the stone mine of Badacsony. Earlier, the placeserved as an internment camp. Now, they intend to establish a camp with workshop sessions for fine artists. Mari and the painter fall in love.
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Hello, Vera
Title: Hello, Vera
Released: March 9, 1967
Type: Movie
The family travels to Zebegény for their holiday, and the following day the seventeen-year-old Vera also leaves for Lake Balaton to pick peaches in a voluntary camp there. Her boyfriend, Gyuri, goes to a film shooting. Gyuri would like to make the best of the day in the absence of parents, but Vera refuses him. She becomes jealous at once, however, when she discovers Gyuri's previous girlfriend in the shooting team.
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A múmia közbeszól
Title: A múmia közbeszól
Character: Halott herceg
Released: January 1, 1967
Type: Movie
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Jaguar
Title: Jaguar
Released: January 1, 1967
Type: Movie
The pseudo crime story honours the bohemian world at the beginning of the century.
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The Golden Kite
Title: The Golden Kite
Released: August 18, 1966
Type: Movie
The film is put at the beginning of the century in Sárszeg, following the humiliation and collapse of a high-school teacher.
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Story of My Foolishness
Title: Story of My Foolishness
Character: György Forbáth
Released: June 6, 1965
Type: Movie
The celebrated actor considers his wife a nitwits actress of a mediocre talent. But an influential playwright, a friend of theirs, has written a play with the main role designed for her, Kati, particularly. Its title is "The Most Intelligent Woman in the World". On the day of the first night performance Kati recalls their past, the times she had together with her husband.
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Summer Clouds
Title: Summer Clouds
Character: Gida
Released: August 11, 1957
Type: Movie
The twenty-year-old Gida, having just survived his first amorous disappointment, falls for Katinka, the young widow, at first sight.
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Professor Hannibal
Title: Professor Hannibal
Character: Török
Released: October 18, 1956
Type: Movie
A school teacher becomes a momentary hero after having rescued a stuffed-bird from a school incident.