József Bihari

József Bihari

Born: January 14, 1901
Died: February 25, 1981
in Nagyajta, Austria-Hungary [now Aita Mare, Romania]

Movies for József Bihari...

Circus Maximus
Title: Circus Maximus
Character: Fuvarosgazda
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.
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Hungarians
Title: Hungarians
Character: Dani
Released: June 22, 1978
Type: Movie
A group of landless Hungarian peasants accept work as migrant-laborers on a farm in northern Germany where the wages are good, and the wives and family are allowed to accompany them. Though it is in the midst of World War II, they are relatively well-off. However, they glimpse the treatment accorded to POWs and others who are not so gently treated, and at the conclusion of the year's harvest, they choose to return to Hungary and are quickly swept up in the tides of war. This film is part of a series of films by award-winning, well-respected director Zoltan Fabri who devoted much time and effort chronicling the struggle against fascism.
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Romanticism
Title: Romanticism
Released: January 1, 1972
Type: Movie
This film, set at the end of the 18th century, in a provincial and noble environment raises the question of humans forced to lead a meaningless life. The rich Transylvanian noble youth, Kálmán, absorbed the spirit of freedom and enlightened culture in Paris. Returning to his father's estate, he encounters a superstitious backwardness and an orgiastic storming of violence and instincts.
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The Upthrown Stone
Title: The Upthrown Stone
Character: grandfather of Balázs
Released: April 17, 1969
Type: Movie
An aspiring film student is denied a scholarship to the state-funded university when his father is thrown in jail. The man had stopped a train in order to facilitate the union between two old friends. The son then takes a job as a land surveyor and meets a Greek man who works towards the collective benefits of the peasants. The man is killed in a peasant uprising prompted by a bureaucratic boondoggle. The surveyor looks after the man's widow as his emerging political and social awareness leads him take a stand against government injustice. Another incident, in which gypsies are rounded up by state hygiene workers, further galvanizes the man's beliefs. He photographs the incident, and his work allows him to be accepted into the school from which he was previously denied admission.
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Baptism
Title: Baptism
Character: Iski kántortanító
Released: April 1, 1968
Type: Movie
A 40-year-old sculptor returns home to witness the baptism of his young nephew. His return prompts a series of flashbacks to his youth and the political upheaval experienced by his family and friends.
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Twenty Hours
Title: Twenty Hours
Character: András Cuha
Released: March 11, 1965
Type: Movie
A crusading newspaper reporter covers the Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956. Initially critical of the communists, the feature later espouses the virtues of the social changes implemented since the invasion. The title refers to the period of time the reporter spent interviewing witnesses to the invasion.
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Until the Day is Breaking
Title: Until the Day is Breaking
Released: January 1, 1962
Type: Movie
Mihály Zágon has been struggling with his conservative mother-in-law for a long time. Now, that his wife is pregnant, the old woman wants Piroska to stay in bed. Mihály is elected to be the president of the co-operative, but nobody is happy about this back home. His wife often pretends to be ill to keep him by her side.
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Military Band
Title: Military Band
Released: September 28, 1961
Type: Movie
Merry soldiers arrive in the sleepy Transdanubian town. The cynical woman-hunter, Ferdinándy, learns to know doctor Barlay's beautiful wife at a carnival. She lives a happy married life, and the attentions of the lieutenant are all in vain.
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Három csillag
Title: Három csillag
Character: Pap
Released: March 31, 1960
Type: Movie
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Virrad
Title: Virrad
Character: Gerendás
Released: March 10, 1960
Type: Movie
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Be Good All Your Life
Title: Be Good All Your Life
Character: Názó
Released: January 2, 1960
Type: Movie
A moving story of a bright and sensitive schoolboy growing up in an old, established boarding school in the city of Debrecen in eastern Hungary.
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Szombattól hétföig
Title: Szombattól hétföig
Character: Anna's father
Released: October 8, 1959
Type: Movie
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For Whom the Larks Sing
Title: For Whom the Larks Sing
Released: August 18, 1959
Type: Movie
1922. Sándor serves as a farm-hand, but would like to become a blacksmith. He is completely enchanted by the beautiful wife of his new master.
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The Brigade No. 39
Title: The Brigade No. 39
Character: János Korbély
Released: March 19, 1959
Type: Movie
The spring of 1919. Karikás Frigyes reorganises brigade 39 at the Tisza. His most devoted soldiers are Korbély János and his followers, who remain faithful to the political commissioner under all circumstances.
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The House Under the Rocks
Title: The House Under the Rocks
Character: old Kós
Released: January 15, 1959
Type: Movie
Three people – a returned prisoner of war, his beautiful second wife, and the possessive, hunchbacked spinster who is his sister-in-law by his first marriage – are isolated in a little house under an extinct volcano, where each strives for personal happiness but is suffocated by their dependence on the others.
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Which of the Nine?
Title: Which of the Nine?
Character: János mester
Released: September 1, 1957
Type: Movie
Istvan Szőts’s short, Christmas-themed film starring József Bihari and Andor Ajtay, based on Mór Jókai’s novel of the same title. The premier of the film was in the Venice Film Festival in 1957, where it received recognition.
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Abyss
Title: Abyss
Character: uncle Jani Veréb
Released: June 5, 1956
Type: Movie
Nagy István, the formerly poor peasant boy returns to his native village as a teacher. His conviction is that the abyss between rich and poor can be diminished by good will. The rich Böröcz Horváth Klári returns his love, and also Böröcz Horváth is willing to help the poorest family, the Bakos. Bakos Jóska, who was sent to serve the tough Böröcz Horváth as a payment, dies of an infected wound and the people in the village hold the teacher liable as well. Nagy István realises, that the abyss cannot be ceased, what is more, it is impassable. He breaks up with his fiancée and stands by the side of the poor.
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The bridge of life
Title: The bridge of life
Released: January 19, 1956
Type: Movie
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Professor, Please...
Title: Professor, Please...
Released: January 1, 1956
Type: Movie
In the story which takes place at the beginning of the century Károly Bauer pupil experiences a series of everyday failures during twenty four hours in the family, on the street and at school.
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Love Travelling a Coach
Title: Love Travelling a Coach
Character: Bertalan Majsa
Released: January 1, 1955
Type: Movie
The top management of the co-operative in the rural community at Lake Balaton goes on coaches everywhere to irritate Mrs. Peczöli, the snobbish wife of the only individual farmer. Peczöli would readily join the co-operative, should it not oppose his apple improving experiments.
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Under the City
Title: Under the City
Released: December 3, 1953
Type: Movie
1952. The workers who have performed the reconstruction of the bridges are now needed at the construction works of the underground railway. During admission they are diluted with elements of doubtful fame and many of them are in a bad mood for the wages, too.
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The Sea has Risen
Title: The Sea has Risen
Character: Father of Hajdu Gyurka
Released: August 18, 1953
Type: Movie
March 15, 1848; the revolution breaks out in the town of Pest. Yet at café Pilvax, in among he revolutionary youth, there is the informer of the imperial court as well. Hearing the news of the attack led by Jellasics, the inhabitants of the villages pour into the national army, and Hajdú Gyurka also escapes from his landlord. Petőfi is there at the camp of the revolutionaries, raising them to enthusiasm with his poetry.
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The Storm
Title: The Storm
Character: Gilicze Péter
Released: December 1, 1952
Type: Movie
Vörös Hajnal (Red Dawn), a co-operative is the venue of skylarking, while the storm destroys the wheat which is to be harvested soon. Árendás, a middle-peasant, voices severe accusations against members of the co-operative: out of negligence, they failed to keep the ditches clean. It is always the soft option they seem to favour, while the necessity of properly taking care of the farmlands is long-forgotten. Members of the co-operative and the village people are deeply divided.
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Erkel
Title: Erkel
Character: old peasant
Released: August 20, 1952
Type: Movie
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Tüzkeresztség
Title: Tüzkeresztség
Character: Sándor Köröm, president of the cooperative
Released: February 23, 1952
Type: Movie
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Underground Colony
Title: Underground Colony
Character: Barla, mérnök
Released: September 15, 1951
Type: Movie
It deals with the alleged Western sabotage of Hungarian oil production.
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A Strange Marriage
Title: A Strange Marriage
Character: Csõsz
Released: August 12, 1951
Type: Movie
Különös házasság is a 1951 Hungarian drama film directed by Márton Keleti. It was entered into the 1951 Cannes Film Festival.
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Singing Makes Life Beautiful
Title: Singing Makes Life Beautiful
Character: Énekkari tag
Released: July 8, 1950
Type: Movie
"Silver lute", the choral society of the Vác Engine Works, led by Réz, the conductor, is preparing for its 25th anniversary. All the important members of the society, among them Seregély, a magician, are, at the same time, all "fathers" of Zsóka, daughter of a former colleague, who has been killed in an accident, and whom they then adopted.
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Goose Boy
Title: Goose Boy
Character: role not specified
Released: February 27, 1950
Type: Movie
A young peasant boy stands up to tyranny, aided by his trusting friend- a goose.
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Song of the Cornfields
Title: Song of the Cornfields
Character: Öreg
Released: March 2, 1947
Type: Movie
A Hungarian soldier returning from fighting in the Second World War marries the woman he believes to be the widow of a former comrade who he thinks died in the Prisoner of War camp in which they were held. The film was banned in Hungary because of its depiction of the controversial issue of Hungarian prisoners held by the Soviets.
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The Prophet of the Fields
Title: The Prophet of the Fields
Released: January 1, 1947
Type: Movie
After the war, Gábor Erőss, released from its captivity, returns home. Abandoned by his love, he finds his house ruined. Nikita, his neighbour, and the roaming Levite come to his assistance by offering him both their friendship and a draught animal.
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Machita
Title: Machita
Character: Török, művezető
Released: April 5, 1944
Type: Movie
A female spy goes to Budapest to steal the plans of an anti-aircraft gun.
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People of the Mountains
Title: People of the Mountains
Character: Márton Üdö , Gergo's godfather
Released: February 28, 1942
Type: Movie
A simple, religious Hungarian woodcutter lives with his wife and boy child with a small community of squatters among the peaceful mountains of Transylvania until a lumber company claims their land and forces them all to become company workers or else leave the land. This 1942 Hungarian film takes a detailed and unflinching look at the hardships of mountain living, and the realistic approach proved influential to the Neorealist movement in Italian cinema. Hungarian master director Istvan Szots won the Biennale Cup at the Venice Film Festival for his auspicious debut, but the film was banned by the Nazis as "too Catholic" and not publicly exhibited until after World War II.
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The Talking Robe
Title: The Talking Robe
Character: Pintyö (as Bihary József)
Released: February 21, 1942
Type: Movie
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Üzenet a Volga-partról
Title: Üzenet a Volga-partról
Released: January 1, 1942
Type: Movie
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Closed Court
Title: Closed Court
Character: Ács, gyilkosság vádlottja (as Bihary József)
Released: November 21, 1940
Type: Movie
dr. Benedek Gábor, a famous solicitor in Eger, is the defense counsel of a murderer, who killed his wife out of jealousy. Gábor lives in a happy marriage with Anna. One day, however, Szentgyörgyi Péter, a famous pianist, comes to Eger. He once was loved by Anna, who in those days was training to become an artist herself. Gábor has no knowledge of these events of the past. He, therefore, associates the now renewed relationship with the story of the murderer he is the legal representative of.
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Fűszer és csemege
Title: Fűszer és csemege
Character: Intéző
Released: January 29, 1940
Type: Movie
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Erdélyi kastély
Title: Erdélyi kastély
Released: January 1, 1940
Type: Movie
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Deadly Spring
Title: Deadly Spring
Character: Mák Pista,jegyzõ
Released: December 21, 1939
Type: Movie
The subject of this film is Dr. Ivan Egry, a young man, who becomes infatuated with Edit Ralben, the beautiful, but flirtatious, daughter of a prominent man. As the two get involved romantically, problems start to plague their relationship. When they end up separating, Ivan finds comfort with Josza, a pretty girl, much more stable than Edit, but far less glamorous. When Edit eventually re-enters Ivan’s life, he can’t resist her. Unable to resolve his conflicting emotions results in an abruptly tragic finale.
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Wedding in Toprin
Title: Wedding in Toprin
Character: Ispán
Released: May 3, 1939
Type: Movie
Sent on a spy mission to the estate of Count Toprini, Lieutenant Imre is helped by the count's wife who is unhappy in her marriage.
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Uz Bence
Title: Uz Bence
Character: Marci bácsi (as Bihary József)
Released: November 18, 1938
Type: Movie
A 1938 film.
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Keep On Smoking Ladányi!
Title: Keep On Smoking Ladányi!
Released: February 22, 1938
Type: Movie
Ladányi, a landowner of 800 acres lives high in Ádámháza, while his bailiff, Pókai keeps on raiding him.
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My Daughter Is Different
Title: My Daughter Is Different
Character: Tűzoltó
Released: November 14, 1937
Type: Movie
Gitta is 20 years old, a girl with modern attitudes, who is courted by Ferenc Fekete. Not particularly liked by Gitta's parents, especially her old-fashioned father, Fekete dates Gitta in secret.
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A férfi mind őrült
Title: A férfi mind őrült
Character: teremőr
Released: September 29, 1937
Type: Movie