Iván Darvas

Iván Darvas

Born: June 14, 1925
Died: June 3, 2007
in Behynce [Beje], Czechoslovakia

Movies for Iván Darvas...

Catcher: Cat City 2
Title: Catcher: Cat City 2
Character: Bob Poljakoff (voice)
Released: December 20, 2007
Type: Movie
The story of CC2 centers around an investigative journalist named Stanley Mouse, who wants to find out about the legend of an ancient "cat tribe" lost in Africa. He finds them and much more, once again threatening the continued existence of mouse civilization. Special Agent Grabowsky will act to save the day, however. The events are supposed to take place at least 10, possibly 20 years after the first episode, as one of the already leaked cells shows the titular Cat-Catcher mecha rusting away in a shelter.
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A Long Weekend in Pest and Buda
Title: A Long Weekend in Pest and Buda
Character: Drégely Iván
Released: November 13, 2003
Type: Movie
Iván is living in exile from Hungary when he receives word that an old flame is ill. His return to Budapest rekindles old memories and reopens old wounds.
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The Bridgeman
Title: The Bridgeman
Character: Metternich
Released: April 10, 2002
Type: Movie
This epic story takes place between 1820 and 1860 during the Habsburg Monarchy, and portrays the life one of the greatest Hungarian aristocrats - Count Széchenyi - who was born with extra-ordinary mental and spiritual talents. In the years following the fall of Napoleon the young count Széchenyi irresponsibly seduces his brother's wife, and the consequent scandal ruins his career as an army officer. After the sudden death of his humiliated lover Count Széchenyi drastically changes his character from that of a shallow young man into a responsible nobleman seeking to conquer his fate by creating great achievements in his remaining life.
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Film...
Title: Film...
Character: Öreg
Released: December 14, 2000
Type: Movie
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Mary, Mother of Jesus
Title: Mary, Mother of Jesus
Character: Silas
Released: November 14, 1999
Type: Movie
Mary, Mother of Jesus is a 1999 made-for-television Biblical film that retells the story of Jesus through the eyes of Mary, his mother.
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Beresina
Title: Beresina
Character: Direktor Vetterli
Released: August 20, 1999
Type: Movie
A naive girl's love for Switzerland is put to the test in this satiric comedy. Irina is a woman from Russia who all her life has always been fascinated by Switzerland and longs to live there some day, though her notion of Swiss life has more to do with Heidi and old movies set in the Alps than reality.
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Death in Shallow Water
Title: Death in Shallow Water
Character: Kozlov
Released: May 12, 1994
Type: Movie
1991, farewell in Budapest. Mária remembers the past in tears. Her husband, Tibor, a chemist and a target of the KGB, left their apartment one evening to fetch some cigarettes only to be found drowned in the shallow Lake Balaton the following day. Their son, Peter, a student in Western-Europe, was found dead on the Danube embankment.
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Title: Liszt Ferenc
Character: id. Liszt Ferenc
Released: October 26, 1982
Type: TV
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Megbízható úriember
Title: Megbízható úriember
Released: September 7, 1981
Type: Movie
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Minden egér szereti a sajtot
Title: Minden egér szereti a sajtot
Character: Zakariás
Released: January 1, 1981
Type: Movie
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I Dream about Colours
Title: I Dream about Colours
Released: August 19, 1980
Type: Movie
The director has intertwined an old amateur film, shot about the Kosztolányi-family, with the adaptation of three short stories of the author. Just like the actors of the amateur film, the main characters of the three short stories are making desperate attempts to appear easy-going and self confident in the eyes of the world. In the hero of Key, the father who at home appears to be an unapproachable, important person, is suddenly revealed to be an insignificant and humiliated office clerk before his son. In Bathing, it is the severe, "tough guy" father who does not know himself and is therefore depressed and causes an irredeemable, tragic accident. In China Vase, the important guest invited with great reverence breaks into pieces the only treasure of the poor clerk couple with a nonchalant gesture. Yet, there is hope: after many years, the woman tells the mystically enlarged story with appropriate self-irony.
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A nagy ékszerész
Title: A nagy ékszerész
Character: Gyáros
Released: January 26, 1980
Type: Movie
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A bolond lány
Title: A bolond lány
Released: January 1, 1980
Type: Movie
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Egy őrült naplója
Title: Egy őrült naplója
Character: Popriscsin
Released: May 4, 1977
Type: Movie
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Title: Sakk, Kempelen úr!
Character: Kasper professzor
Released: November 9, 1976
Type: TV
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Title: Vivat Beňovský!
Character: D'Agillon
Released: October 6, 1975
Type: TV
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The Pendragon Legend
Title: The Pendragon Legend
Character: Earl of Gwynedd
Released: September 12, 1974
Type: Movie
Bátky János a 20th century intellectual studies the secret of the Rosicrucians in London libraries during the day and in the evening takes pleasure in the "decent" everyday joys offered by the fair sex. He gets involved in the wildest ghost-story in the mysterious Wales castle of the Pendragons, where Earl of Gwynnedd from the 18th century is making experiments to prove his ancestors' slogan, "the resurrection of the body". In the meantime St. Claire, a beautiful, demonic woman and her companions try to kill him for the huge legacy.
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Aranyborjú
Title: Aranyborjú
Character: Bender Oszkár
Released: April 25, 1974
Type: Movie
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Seven Tons of Dollar
Title: Seven Tons of Dollar
Character: Zima
Released: November 3, 1973
Type: Movie
Luciano, the clown of a circus, can predict who will win in the snooker. His mathematical algorithm seems to be working in every gamble provided that the gamma factor is present. This latter is a woman in the bed. He uses his special skill for his country therefore he, as a secret weapon, is moved to the west with three support staff. The goal of their task is to plunder Western Europe. The plan works and Bondoros, the city he came from became a metropolis. Does it look like a dream?
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Öt férfi komoly szándékkal
Title: Öt férfi komoly szándékkal
Released: May 6, 1972
Type: Movie
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Hold on to the Clouds
Title: Hold on to the Clouds
Character: Янош Перцель (референт)
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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Szerelem a ládában
Title: Szerelem a ládában
Released: July 10, 1971
Type: Movie
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Title: Egy óra múlva itt vagyok…
Character: Vereczkey százados
Released: April 20, 1971
Type: TV
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Adrift
Title: Adrift
Character: Krištof Káldy
Released: February 12, 1971
Type: Movie
A fisherman saves Anada, a woman adrift, from drowning. He takes her to his home, and protects her. Eventually, she occupies a larger place than was to be expected. He commits adultery with her, but his own wife seems to be in love with the strange young woman.
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Love
Title: Love
Character: János
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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N.N. the Angel of Death
Title: N.N. the Angel of Death
Released: September 5, 1970
Type: Movie
The two main characters of this ironic account of the general condition of intellectuals are the charming psychologist, Korin György, and the unexpected. Korin starts a television series of people in their 40s. In the afternoon just after the first section, however, he is reported to be dead as a result of a rather strange accident. Everything turns upside down.
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The Toth Family
Title: The Toth Family
Character: Narrator
Released: November 29, 1969
Type: Movie
The Toth family resides in Northern Hungary. The couple has a daughter and a son, the latter a member of the armed forces. When his weary major is ordered to take a vacation, the son talks him into a visit to his family home. Comedy ensues when the Toths go overboard trying to make things pleasant for the visiting major in hopes of an easier life for their son the soldier.
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Windows of Time
Title: Windows of Time
Character: Scientist
Released: October 22, 1969
Type: Movie
Five social misfits undergo cryogenic suspension. When they awake in the far distant future, they find a world devastated by nuclear war. Yet they discover that each of them has some personal involvement - and responsibility - for the series of the events that ended in the destruction of the world they knew.
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The Heir
Title: The Heir
Released: June 5, 1969
Type: Movie
Drapp Tamás, metro-driver inherits an American salami-factory worth a hundred thousand dollars from an unknown relative abroad.
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You Were a Prophet, My Dear
Title: You Were a Prophet, My Dear
Released: January 1, 1969
Type: Movie
During his neurological treatment, Gábor recalls his recent past. Happy moments of his marriage flash upon him, then he remembers the conflict that made his wife leave him and the women on whose side he is trying to forget.
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The Big Blue Signal
Title: The Big Blue Signal
Released: January 1, 1969
Type: Movie
Anusi is tired of her everyday life in the old tenement house with a boring accountant husband, whose only passion is hiking. After five years of marriage she gets a free holiday.
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Three Nights of Love
Title: Three Nights of Love
Character: Boldizsár
Released: September 21, 1967
Type: Movie
A young man spends his last three nights with his lover before his army regiment is ordered to war. When he deserts his unit to return to her side, he discovers the woman he loves is gone, and he is interrogated by the police when he learns his lover is a communist agent. The two finally are reunited at the police station where the embarrassed man denies ever knowing the accused woman.
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Boys From the Square
Title: Boys From the Square
Released: September 5, 1967
Type: Movie
The story takes place during World War II and presents the illegal movement from inside. Some tough guys from the square have been angry with Albert Zoli, a boxer since he started living a decent life, passed the final examination at high-school, and entered a job as a bank clerk. About his illegal activity, however, they do not even have the slightest idea. With the help of Zsizsi, a young actress, and Diogenes, an extravagant tramp, he persuades the guys to join the movement. They distribute anti-Nazi handbills and paint pacifist slogans onto the walls of houses.
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A Study about Women
Title: A Study about Women
Released: August 22, 1967
Type: Movie
Zsuzsa, Éva and Jolán decide to divorce their husbands. Their attorney is the young Vera who visits the husbands one after the other with the enthusiasm of dealing with the very first case. The bafflement of the sanguine Péter, the materialistic Sándor and the indolent Bálint lasts only for a few moments; after that, they all fall in love with the pretty lawyer.
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The Widow and the Police Officer
Title: The Widow and the Police Officer
Released: April 28, 1967
Type: Movie
Mrs. Holló reports the case of three missing persons to the police. During the investigations, the captain realises that there is nothing to deter Mrs. Holló from her trying to overcome loneliness.
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Frozen Flashes
Title: Frozen Flashes
Character: Atomic Scientist
Released: April 13, 1967
Type: Movie
In November of 1939, the British consulate in Norway receives documents saying that the Nazis are conducting secret rocket research in Peenemünde. But the British doubt the authenticity of the so called "Oslo report". Thus, the Germans continue their experiments unimpeded. At the same time, resistance groups from France, England, Poland, and Germany try to find and to sabotage the secret Nazi research base. When the first "V 2" rocket is successfully launched, the Allied commanders finally become interested in the "Oslo report".
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A Hungarian Nabob 2: Karpathy Zoltan
Title: A Hungarian Nabob 2: Karpathy Zoltan
Character: Abellino Kárpáthy
Released: December 22, 1966
Type: Movie
On the novel by Mór Jókai. The first half of the XVIII century. Several decades of life of a noble family Karpati.
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Cold Days
Title: Cold Days
Character: Captain Tarpataki
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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Faithful for Nothing
Title: Faithful for Nothing
Character: Kántor
Released: May 12, 1966
Type: Movie
Eve, the old professor zsongják beautiful wife surrounded by colleagues. When the professor's going away for a conference abroad, intensifying the suitors attempts. Eve, however faithful to her husband, so that the denials are increasing. Oddly enough, the rejected accidents ...
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A Hungarian Nabob
Title: A Hungarian Nabob
Character: Kárpáthy Abellino
Released: January 1, 1966
Type: Movie
On the novel by Mór Jókai. The first half of the XVIII century. Several decades of life of a noble family Karpati.
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No Love, Please
Title: No Love, Please
Character: A herceg
Released: December 2, 1965
Type: Movie
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The Corporal and the Others
Title: The Corporal and the Others
Character: Gálfy Eduárd zászlós
Released: September 3, 1965
Type: Movie
PFC Molnár decides his WWII services are over, and with serious money hidden in his hand grenades, he heads to an abandoned mansion where he encounters not only the sour butler but a bunch of others who also try to wimp out of their duties.
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Skylark
Title: Skylark
Character: Füzess Feri
Released: April 5, 1965
Type: Movie
Based on a novel by Dezso Kosztolani, this Hungarian drama is set at the turn of the 20th century. A young, homely woman lives at home with her mother and retired father. Because of all the care the girl provides for her parents, the couple becomes detached from the world outside their home. When the girl leaves for a short visit to her uncle's home, the parents realize the extent of their separation from society and their selfish feelings toward their own daughter.
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Yes
Title: Yes
Character: János Kiss
Released: January 1, 1965
Type: Movie
Kiss, an engineer, accompanies his wife to the maternity ward. He wants to leave the woman because while he was away in Brazil, she did not undergo an abortion as they had agreed before. While he is packing up at home, the memories of the sweet events of their life together keep coming to him, one after the other.
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His Majesty's Dates
Title: His Majesty's Dates
Released: August 12, 1964
Type: Movie
The chroniclers are diligently scribbling the history of life and deeds of the virtuous and wise King Matthias, who, in the meantime, sneaks out of the palace in disguise. Instead of attending a boring reception of the imperial deputies and papal legates, he pays his address to three pretty women from Szelistye.
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Forbidden Marriage
Title: Forbidden Marriage
Character: Allen Brown
Released: May 14, 1964
Type: Movie
Lilian, daughter of an English millionaire threatens her father that she will marry the first shady character turning up around her and will sing in bars just because her father wants her to marry someone whom she does not love.
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New Gilgames
Title: New Gilgames
Character: Dávid
Released: March 2, 1963
Type: Movie
The story recalling the spirit of Gilgamesh, the Sumerian king quarrelling with his approaching death, takes place in a cancer hospital in Budapest. Dávid, the young ethnography scientist resigned to his lot and is indifferent to his approaching death. His specialist reckons, however, that such a searching and stubborn mind with thorough knowledge of the nature of his own illness, will be able to fight death.
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Adventure in Gerolstein
Title: Adventure in Gerolstein
Character: Grand Duke Martin
Released: September 19, 1957
Type: Movie
In Gerolstein, those girls who were born the same year as the princess, cannot marry until she remains maiden. An attractive and very rich husband is needed for Antónia in order to fill the treasures up. The wonderful reigning princess meets her selected bridegroom, the emperor of the neighbouring Pecunia in disguise and by accident.
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A Sunday Romance
Title: A Sunday Romance
Character: Sándor
Released: March 3, 1957
Type: Movie
The poetic love story depicting everyday life from a micro-psychological aspect takes place in the 1910s. Sándor, editor of the local paper, serves as a foot soldier on Sundays, but spends weekdays playing billiard and courting women. One Sunday afternoon - in soldier's uniform - he meets Vilma, the beautiful maid, whose honesty and chastity turns the adventure to love.
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Tale on the 12 Points
Title: Tale on the 12 Points
Character: Fazekas Géza, történelemtanár
Released: February 7, 1957
Type: Movie
The flat of Doctor Bartha is wetting, the Communal Management Enterprise does not act, the doctor and his wife are at the edge of divorce. Géza would marry his colleague, Kató, but mum is sick, the apartment is small, no money. Uncle Károly is fed up with unsuitable, charlatan business managers. Vali would marry, in order not to live on Titi and Piri any more, but the selected man wants to have a woman with her own apartment. All of them have a chance by the lottery, especially by hitting twelve scores.
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Dollar Daddy
Title: Dollar Daddy
Character: Dr. Jenő Szekeres
Released: May 17, 1956
Type: Movie
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Ward No. 9
Title: Ward No. 9
Character: doktor Sós
Released: November 10, 1955
Type: Movie
The young worker Tóth Gáspár gets into hospital with stomachache. During the night his state is worsening. The doctor on duty, Málnási does not attend the patient despite the call of the nurse, for he spends the night with nurse Margó.
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Hit and Run
Title: Hit and Run
Character: András Csanádi
Released: September 14, 1955
Type: Movie
Judge Csanádi András makes a confession to his boss one night: he fell in love with the pretty, modern driver woman, Zenthe Judit in a fencing room. The girl suddenly returned his feelings. One night she confessed to him crying: she hit someone. The case was assigned to Csanádi, who wanted to investigate the circumstances meticulously despite his feelings. Thus the so far hidden life of Judit, which is bound to the past former world and its values is now highlighted. He is confused, asks his boss to absolve him from the assignment, but refuses to do so. Csanádi realises in the court room: Judit kept on telling lies, she played the lover for her own interest. The judge passed his crisis, he will deliver a fair sentence.
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Springtime in Budapest
Title: Springtime in Budapest
Character: Karaganov fõhadnagy
Released: April 2, 1955
Type: Movie
At Christmas Eve in 1944 the runaway Pintér and Gozsó get through the Soviet blockade around Budapest. Pintér intends to hide in a flat abandoned by his own relatives, but he finds his relatives called the Turnovszkys, who are hiding the Jewish Jutka as well. Love unfolds between Zoltán and Jutka.
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Lily Boy
Title: Lily Boy
Character: Liliomfi
Released: February 24, 1955
Type: Movie
Liliomfi is a 1954 Hungarian comedy film directed by Károly Makk. It was entered into the 1955 Cannes Film Festival. Set in the "Golden Era" of the wandering Hungarian theatre troupes. Mariska and Liliomfi fall in love without suspecting that Mariska's foster father, Professor Szilvay, is also Liliomfi's uncle. Soon the couple must contend with the professor's plan to make Liliomfi give up his "unrespectable" profession of acting by exposing the professor's hypocrisy, greed, and tyrannical selfishness.
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Fourteen Lives
Title: Fourteen Lives
Character: Jancsó
Released: September 2, 1954
Type: Movie
September 1952 in a mine in Northern-Hungary after an explosion water breaks in from the neighbouring shaft and fourteen miners become trapped. The whole country unites to save them.
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The Sea has Risen
Title: The Sea has Risen
Character: Pál Vasvári
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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Erkel
Title: Erkel
Character: Ferenc Liszt
Released: August 20, 1952
Type: Movie
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Egy asszony elindul
Title: Egy asszony elindul
Released: October 7, 1949
Type: Movie
Director: Imre Jeney
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Gala-Suit
Title: Gala-Suit
Released: August 23, 1949
Type: Movie
The only jacket owned by Rédey Lajos, a university student majoring in Italian language and literature, is pawned by his room-mate. The bracelet of Kitty, the daughter of general Gohrmann, which in the middle of a kiss during a lesson in Italian got accidentally unfastened, has been left in the pocket of the jacket. As a result of a still further incident, Rédey, - endeavouring to return the bracelet to Kitty - embarks upon getting the jacket back while wearing the Hungarian gala-suit owned by his landlady's elder brother. The station to which he finds his way while looking for the jacket is visited by the King of Italy, and he takes Lajos, dressed as he is in a Hungarian gala-suit, to be a Hungarian aristocrat, and Lajos must but receive His Majesty in Italian.
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Hot Fields
Title: Hot Fields
Released: August 23, 1948
Type: Movie
Avary, himself a hustler, is jealous of his beautiful wife. He eavesdrops to catch Vilma, his wife, having supper with a neighbour on the terrace of their manor-house. He is about to shoot at the woman, but it is him who gets shot to death.
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Léda - Egy farsangi éj komédiája
Title: Léda - Egy farsangi éj komédiája
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie