István Avar

István Avar

Born: March 20, 1931
Died: September 13, 2014
in Egercsehi, Hungary

Movies for István Avar...

Zsaruvér és Csigavér III.: A szerencse fia
Title: Zsaruvér és Csigavér III.: A szerencse fia
Character: rendőrfőnök
Released: January 1, 2008
Type: Movie
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Zsaruvér és Csigavér II.: Több tonna kámfor
Title: Zsaruvér és Csigavér II.: Több tonna kámfor
Character: rendőrfőnök
Released: December 13, 2002
Type: Movie
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God Walks Backwards
Title: God Walks Backwards
Released: March 18, 1991
Type: Movie
From the film-shooting in the Buda Castle Marci and his friend go to a well-paying job. The scene is a big castle in the middle of a huge park. They enjoy the company of the Kid and the beautiful naked French girl, Nathalie. Their job is to watch the monitors on which they can see the Moscow coup détat. By the time Gorbachev is executed the Communist and the Nationalists have taken turns in occupying the castle and the park.
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Wengler & Sons
Title: Wengler & Sons
Character: Dr. Conrad Abel
Released: May 14, 1987
Type: Movie
A story spanning three generations, from 1871 to 1945. When Gustav Wengler, a farmer’s son, returns from the Franco-German war in 1871, he goes to work for a precision mechanics and optical company, where he soon becomes a master craftsman. Wengler loyally promises the owner on his deathbed that his sons and grandsons will also stand by the company.
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A Fond Farewell to the Prince
Title: A Fond Farewell to the Prince
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: Movie
1629, Transylvania: Reigning prince Bethlen Gábor has Don Diego, the Spanish chronicle knight be brought to his court in order to make him record his life and deeds for posterity.
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The Enchanted Dollar
Title: The Enchanted Dollar
Character: Új rendõrfõnök
Released: May 1, 1986
Type: Movie
Tomboy accidentally found a fake dollar and gave it to detective Droplet. The operation is headed by Maj. Kardos. Now they have to investigate the crime in order to find and neutralize the counterfeiters.
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Title: A falu jegyzője
Character: Macskaházy ügyvéd
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: TV
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Elcserélt szerelem
Title: Elcserélt szerelem
Character: Pusztai
Released: August 25, 1983
Type: Movie
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II. József császár
Title: II. József császár
Character: II. József
Released: May 6, 1982
Type: Movie
A Hungarian film about Emperor Joseph II
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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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Title: Hungarian Folktales
Character: Mesemondó
Released: January 4, 1977
Type: TV
Hungarian Folktales is a Hungarian animated series. Each episode is based on a Hungarian folk tale. The creators paid special attention to using Hungarian folk motives in the episodes.
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Labyrinth
Title: Labyrinth
Released: April 15, 1976
Type: Movie
The film director starts shooting his film about the manager of a large corporation who committed suicide for mysterious reasons. As the cumbersome process of making a film goes along, everybody involved in it starts having differing opinions of the tragedy, its causes and its victim.
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Assume Yourself
Title: Assume Yourself
Character: Dr. Kerekes
Released: February 20, 1975
Type: Movie
A story about the Hungarian pioneers summer vacations.
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Dashing Girls
Title: Dashing Girls
Character: Szaffián
Released: August 13, 1974
Type: Movie
A musical farce about women in the canning factory. The pretty Brigitta tries to commit suicide, because Laci left her, pregnant, but her mates save her.
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Cobweb
Title: Cobweb
Released: January 1, 1974
Type: Movie
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The Last Chance
Title: The Last Chance
Character: Jakus István
Released: August 13, 1973
Type: Movie
The film is based on a true story. Jakus, managing director of a scooter-factory suddenly resigns, since he disagrees with his superiors in the ministry on several points. Disregarding the attacks of his family and friends, he returns to his original job and becomes a welder, which is not very easy because of his records.
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The Black City
Title: The Black City
Released: November 26, 1972
Type: Movie
Feature film version of the 1971 series.
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Title: The Black City
Released: January 1, 1972
Type: TV
Hungarian mini-series.
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Hi, Junior!
Title: Hi, Junior!
Character: Szemetes
Released: January 1, 1971
Type: Movie
Everyone loves little Junior, but nobody has time for him. So Junior decides to find Time with the help of his friends - dwarves.
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A bunker
Title: A bunker
Character: Feldman
Released: January 1, 1971
Type: Movie
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Title: Őrjárat az égen
Character: Kocsis
Released: March 15, 1970
Type: TV
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The Spell
Title: The Spell
Released: February 23, 1970
Type: Movie
Igéző portrays the life of the unsociable stranger , András, who arrives at the place of his exile and slowly makes friends with Miska, the charcoal-burner.
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Bespectacled
Title: Bespectacled
Character: Tibor
Released: June 5, 1969
Type: Movie
The young Valkó wants to plan a block of apartments that will still be modern fifty years from now. His ambitious plans are continuously rejected by his manipulative and careless superiors. So instead of the modern block of flats he only plans a bachelor apartment.
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Mocorgó
Title: Mocorgó
Character: Schreier
Released: January 12, 1969
Type: Movie
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Binding Sentiments
Title: Binding Sentiments
Character: Apor igazgató
Released: January 9, 1969
Type: Movie
Edit, who became the wife of a politician out of a simple peasant girl, suddenly becomes a widow as a result of an accident. She never loved her husband. She lives a wealthy and lonely life amidst false friends, facing one of the last alternatives of her life, i.e. having to face her past in the hope of an independent new beginning.
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7 kérdés a szerelemről (és 3 alkérdés)
Title: 7 kérdés a szerelemről (és 3 alkérdés)
Released: January 2, 1969
Type: Movie
Seven stories about love and women.
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Forbidden Ground
Title: Forbidden Ground
Character: Ügyész
Released: January 1, 1968
Type: Movie
The dramatically dense film takes place in workers' surrounding in the sixties. It raises the newspaper article serving as the basis for the short story to be a model: in a plastic factory fire breaks out causing enormous damages.
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Red-Letter Days
Title: Red-Letter Days
Character: Gyula
Released: June 5, 1967
Type: Movie
Mihály, a retired foundryman has brought up his sons in a very disciplined and strict way, and as a result they have become a doctor, an engineer, and a teacher. However, his half orphan grandson, Misi, has been spoilt, and become skilled in nothing else really but riding his motorbike and going to parties. He has been involved in shady businesses a number of times already. Having experienced so many difficulties, privation and hardship in his own life and now seeing Misi's irresponsible lifestyle, the old man's bitterness is growing day by day.
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Tök az adu
Title: Tök az adu
Character: Szekerák
Released: April 1, 1967
Type: Movie
A barber goes for a walk on an average Sunday morning, and end up winning an other guy's wife on card.
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Miért beszél annyit Mrs. Piper?
Title: Miért beszél annyit Mrs. Piper?
Character: Mr. Westerby
Released: February 1, 1967
Type: Movie
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A múmia közbeszól
Title: A múmia közbeszól
Character: Takács Károly
Released: January 1, 1967
Type: Movie
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Title: Princ, a katona
Character: Végvári ezredes (9 epizód)
Released: December 1, 1966
Type: TV
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Cold Days
Title: Cold Days
Character: Corporal Dorner
Released: September 26, 1966
Type: Movie
Andras Kovacs' film, considered one of the most important Hungarian films of the 1960s, centers around four men who await trial for their involvement in the massacre of several thousand Jewish and Serbian people of Novi Sad in 1942. Each denies any responsibility, claiming that they were only following orders. The film is significant for its willingness to address the subject of Hungary's role in WWII, which was taboo at the time of the its release.
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The Round-Up
Title: The Round-Up
Character: Vallató I
Released: January 6, 1966
Type: Movie
After the failure of the Kossuth's revolution of 1848, people suspected of supporting the revolution are sent to prison camps. Years later, partisans led by outlaw Sándor Rózsa still run rampant. Although the authorities do not know the identities of the partisans, they round up suspects and try to root them out by any means necessary.
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No Love, Please
Title: No Love, Please
Character: Frank
Released: December 2, 1965
Type: Movie
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Blow-Ball
Title: Blow-Ball
Released: April 8, 1965
Type: Movie
A day in the solitary life of Pista, a single child of divorced parents. The boy skips school and explores the city of Budapest by himself, yet can't escape an unbearable ennui. Like Mészáros's ADOPTION, this early short film explores the themes of broken family bonds; it also offers insight into the origins of the director’s career.
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Másfél millió
Title: Másfél millió
Character: Gyula
Released: October 29, 1964
Type: Movie
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Villa Negra
Title: Villa Negra
Released: September 21, 1963
Type: Movie
A past world is revived in the little cottage in the outskirts, next to the housing blocks under construction. Tamburás, the old hobo collects swerved youth: Diák, who desires freedom, the bus driver who is deprived of his license for having run over someone, and the rest. They have got an easy and unbound life there, with constant music, small thefts, occasional labour, tricks.
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Dialogue
Title: Dialogue
Released: April 22, 1963
Type: Movie
The film depicts the period between 1945-60 through the life of a communist couple. Barna Judit, just released from a concentration camp and Horváth László, with an illegal past are brought together by the communist movement. They study and make plans together in the hope of a future that will make sense. The marriage they just entered, however, gets ruined soon by the events of history.
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Cantata
Title: Cantata
Character: Balázs
Released: February 28, 1963
Type: Movie
A young doctor undergoes a spiritual crisis when he returns to his rural home.
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Every day - Sunday
Title: Every day - Sunday
Released: August 12, 1962
Type: Movie
Jirka is a composer, his wife, Jana, a pianist. Jana would like to have an own concert, but so far she has only been selected to accompany Valenta during his concerts in Budapest. After some resentments, she accepts the proposal.
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The Fanatics
Title: The Fanatics
Character: Csõgyárigazgató
Released: January 18, 1962
Type: Movie
Bene, tired of the professional battles of engineers and trying to escape a ship-wrecked marriage, asks to be transferred to the country. The gravest problem of the sandy region in Nagyalföld (Great Hungarian Plain) is the shortage of water. The tireless director of the local state farm asks for Bene's support, but the disillusioned man refuses him.
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Autumn Star
Title: Autumn Star
Released: January 1, 1962
Type: Movie
The scene is a small town in the Hungarian Plain, the time is Summer 1945. The diggers who have been left out of land distribution are demonstrating in front of the City Hall. Upon the advice of an unemployed engineer having returned from captivity, an uncultivated and barren piece of land is distributed among them.
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Just a Joke
Title: Just a Joke
Released: November 30, 1961
Type: Movie
The grey hero of grey workdays, the divorced cashier of a cinema who is always willing to sacrifice herself for others, Etelka, is awarded a two-week-holiday at Lake Balaton. Following the advice of her female friend, she tries to live life at full speed.
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Test Trip
Title: Test Trip
Character: Tóth
Released: February 16, 1961
Type: Movie
Vetró János, the lorry driver, is an alcoholic. His marriage is in pieces, his wife has a lover. Their son suffers an accident. The next day his wife moves out. In his desperation, Vetró drinks even more, and leaves his work as well.
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The Land of Promise
Title: The Land of Promise
Released: January 1, 1961
Type: Movie
At the beginning of the 50s, Jani, the young pitman, goes to work to a new mine. To his disappointment, he is only employed as a trammer. After lengthy disputes he manages to get to the post he desires.
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A Houseful of Bliss
Title: A Houseful of Bliss
Released: July 8, 1960
Type: Movie
A comedy about the dwellers of a newly handed-over building. The sullen doctor Birkás is concerned that his wife also has a job so there is nobody to keep the apartment tidy. What is more, it happens that the doctor must cook the dumplings stuffed with plums himself. The lady hairdresser, Albert, is rather jealous of his wife. His jealousy is not entirely ungrounded, and Mancika runs away with a motorcyclist. The Korbusz family live a little crowded, because in addition to Öcsi, even an energetic grandmother lives with them. But the peacefully troublesome time spent together does not disturb the family's happiness.
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Walking to Heaven
Title: Walking to Heaven
Released: July 8, 1959
Type: Movie
If there has ever been pure and undestroyable love, this is it. That is how Imre and Vera feel. The talented chemist loses his best friend for the girl's sake, then gives up his profession, only to be able to stay in the capital with Vera. But the young actress at the beginning of her career is neglected. Imre accepts an uninteresting, but well-paying position. They seem to be happy together.
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Sleepless Years
Title: Sleepless Years
Character: Tutó
Released: January 21, 1959
Type: Movie
The "sleepless years" in this propaganda piece by director Felix Marlassy occur on Csepel Island, an island south of Budapest that is home to an armaments factory. The factory workers are shown being exploited by imperialists, capitalists gone berserk, and fascists, more or less in that exact chronological sequence. The heavy-handed approach does much to undercut the belief that when socialism finally takes over, the lives of the workers are brought up to a human level. In this instance, audiences might prefer a more nuanced and subtle statement, no matter what the message.
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Love on Thursday
Title: Love on Thursday
Released: January 1, 1959
Type: Movie
Éva and Árpi are married, but have no home on their own. On Thursdays, they meet in Árpi's long vehicle. Renting a room from a head tenant would be too expensive. The ad of an old lady found in a newspaper, in which she offers a room free of charge to the person who finds her lost parrot, comes in handy.
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Iron Flower
Title: Iron Flower
Character: Pettersen István
Released: May 1, 1958
Type: Movie
During the worldwide Depression of the 1930s, a young shopgirl is in love with a man of her own financial class, but succumbs to the seductive machinations of her wealthy boss.