Gábor Máté

Gábor Máté

Born: April 29, 1955
in Budapest, Hungary

Movies for Gábor Máté...

Unfinished Business
Title: Unfinished Business
Character: Sándor Szabó
Released: July 12, 2020
Type: Movie
On the day the Berlin Wall falls, a determined young actress has a job interview at the National Theater. But, while a world-order falls apart outside, she is confronted to an old family-secret that will change everything.
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On the Quiet
Title: On the Quiet
Character: Frigyes
Released: November 14, 2019
Type: Movie
A coming-of-age story set in the contemporary Hungarian countryside, where teenage soloist Dávid decides to stand up for Nóri, 13, a cellist in their youth orchestra who is having a suspiciously close relationship with their 60-year-old conductor. While looking for the truth, Dávid's life soon starts to spiral out of control as he faces tough decisions and the adult society's negligence.
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Candide
Title: Candide
Character: Pangloss
Released: October 25, 2018
Type: Movie
As a free adaptation of Voltaire's classic, our Candide tries to win the beloved Cunégonde's heart in different contemporary settings. In the 13 episodes he finds himself in challanging situations, and has to face the cruelty of the world. He follows Master Pangloss's instructions to always stay optimistic, while travelling the world from a Californian start up company through North-Optimistan into deep space. As the novel itself our adaptation is a political and religious satire of our times.
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Title: Candide
Character: Pangloss
Released: October 25, 2018
Type: TV
As a free adaptation of Voltaire's classic, our Candide tries to win the beloved Cunégonde's heart in different contemporary settings. In the 13 episodes he finds himself in challanging situations, and has to face the cruelty of the world. He follows Master Pangloss's instructions to always stay optimistic, while travelling the world from a Californian start up company through North-Optimistan into deep space. As the novel itself our adaptation is a political and religious satire of our times.
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Title: Candide kalandjai
Character: Pangloss (voice)
Released: October 25, 2018
Type: TV
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Black Soup
Title: Black Soup
Character: Neighbour
Released: May 1, 2014
Type: Movie
After a long night, Dj Feaky D loses a large sum of money on poker. When an old friend offers a "great opportunity of easy money", he calls up on his buddies locked away in a mental institution.
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Hungarian Retro
Title: Hungarian Retro
Character: Narrator
Released: January 1, 2010
Type: Movie
A feature length, lively - montage style - documentary, capturing the essence of what life was like in socialist Hungary - dubbed the "The most cheerful barrack" back then - using contemporary music, interviews, adverts and news footages.
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Taxidermia
Title: Taxidermia
Character: Öreg Balatony Kálmán
Released: August 23, 2006
Type: Movie
Grotesquely surreal offering charting three male generations of the same bizarre family, including a pervert who constantly seeks for new kinds of satisfaction, an obese speed eater, and a passionate embalmer.
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Fateless
Title: Fateless
Character: Miklós
Released: February 10, 2005
Type: Movie
An Hungarian youth comes of age at Buchenwald during World War II. György Köves is 14, the son of a merchant who's sent to a forced labor camp. After his father's departure, György gets a job at a brickyard; his bus is stopped and its Jewish occupants sent to camps. There, György find camaraderie, suffering, cruelty, illness, and death. He hears advice on preserving one's dignity and self-esteem. He discovers hatred. If he does survive and returns to Budapest, what will he find? What is natural; what is it to be a Jew? Sepia, black and white, and color alternate to shade the mood.
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Magyar szépség
Title: Magyar szépség
Released: February 1, 2003
Type: Movie
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Down by Love
Title: Down by Love
Character: Tibor
Released: January 22, 2003
Type: Movie
Eva Kerezkes is a young woman who lives alone in her apartment. After her parents' death, she was adopted by writer Tibor and his wife, Klara. Upon returning from a holiday in Italy, Eva performs various tasks around her apartment that reveal haunting information about her past sexual relationship with Tibor.
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Happy Birthday
Title: Happy Birthday
Character: Péter
Released: January 1, 2003
Type: Movie
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Ten Minutes Older: The Cello
Title: Ten Minutes Older: The Cello
Character: (segment "Ten Minutes After")
Released: September 3, 2002
Type: Movie
Collection of short films the summaries of which include; a foreign man moving to Italy, getting married and having a child; a four split scene short involving plot-less images of old people with television sets for heads, a beautiful woman having sex, and overall confusion; and an old man reminiscing over his youth.
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Loophole
Title: Loophole
Character: Simon
Released: April 25, 2002
Type: Movie
In the week of the book an interview is made with the writer Péter Simon, whose first book of short stories appeared in the prime of his life.
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Mayday Mayhem
Title: Mayday Mayhem
Character: Pék Antal,párttikár
Released: December 6, 2001
Type: Movie
A new socialistic city is being built on the Danube's riverbank in the early 50's. The story is about a teacher who's living there.
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Sunshine
Title: Sunshine
Character: Rosner
Released: September 13, 1999
Type: Movie
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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Pirates
Title: Pirates
Character: Farkas
Released: January 7, 1999
Type: Movie
A pirate radio, the girl next door, and a test of friendship.
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Espresso
Title: Espresso
Character: Tulaj
Released: October 1, 1998
Type: Movie
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Budapest Retro
Title: Budapest Retro
Character: Narrator #1
Released: September 1, 1998
Type: Movie
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Long Twilight
Title: Long Twilight
Released: April 16, 1997
Type: Movie
A tale about an independent-minded university professor who leaves her family to travel across the countryside to visit a friend.
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The Wondrous Voyage of Kornel Esti
Title: The Wondrous Voyage of Kornel Esti
Released: January 1, 1995
Type: Movie
Middle-aged writer (Kornél Esti) travels to Germany to deliver a lecture. During the long journey he recalls the memories of an other journey he made thirty years ago.
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A Valencia rejtély
Title: A Valencia rejtély
Character: Miklós (fiatal)
Released: January 1, 1995
Type: Movie
Hungarian TV-movie, adaptation of a drama by Géza Ottlik.
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Vigilantes
Title: Vigilantes
Character: Péter, Éva férje
Released: November 26, 1993
Type: Movie
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We Never Die!
Title: We Never Die!
Character: Imre
Released: January 15, 1993
Type: Movie
This story has a horse-race fan main character who sells clothes-hangers On one trip, a young, teenager boy relative goes with him. They have a lot of adventures as they become friends. Girls, dance and horse-racing are the themes while they sell the clothes-hangers this summer...
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Dear Emma, Sweet Böbe
Title: Dear Emma, Sweet Böbe
Character: Duty Officer
Released: March 20, 1992
Type: Movie
The story shows Emma's and Böbe's fight for survival, for keeping their position in society which they achieved with hard work in the previous regime. They don't want to lose their place and become village girls again.
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On Death Row
Title: On Death Row
Character: Wágner Sándor
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
Directed by János Zsombolyai
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My Twentieth Century
Title: My Twentieth Century
Character: K
Released: September 1, 1989
Type: Movie
A 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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Before the Bat's Flight Is Done
Title: Before the Bat's Flight Is Done
Character: László
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
A divorced middle-aged woman takes home an ardent suitor, only to discover that he prefers her teenage son. The mother is an overworked coffee-shop attendant, the suitor turns out to be a plain-clothes policeman and the boy is a frustrated flautist.
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Hülyeség nem akadály
Title: Hülyeség nem akadály
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
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Lost Illusions
Title: Lost Illusions
Character: Sárdi László
Released: April 25, 1983
Type: Movie
Via the New York Times: "The Hungarian director Gyula Gazdag has transposed the middle section of Balzac's "Lost Illusions" from Paris in the mid-19th century to the Budapest of 1968... it tells of Laszlo Sardi - Balzac's Lucien Chardon - and his efforts to launch his literary career amid the snobbery and sophistication of a big city."
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Heart Tremors
Title: Heart Tremors
Released: June 6, 1981
Type: Movie
The general practitioner Balla and his wife abandoning her higher education begin their common life in the small mountain village in the hope of quick enrichment and return to the capital. Despite Éva and Emma, the two school mistresses longing for love and Demeter, the dove-keeper obsessed with a desire for flight life is boring in the country.
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Circus Maximus
Title: Circus Maximus
Character: Bobo
Released: October 16, 1980
Type: Movie
During World War II Carlotta, the circus owner maintains herself, her lover and her rather run-down circus-team by illegal man-smuggling. In the year of 1944, besides the usual refugees, she even has to take Professor Máté, the renown mathematician to the Yugoslavian partisans. The team is joined by Carlotta's psychotic son who has escaped from an asylum.