Ildikó Bánsági

Ildikó Bánsági

Born: October 19, 1947
in Budapest, Hungary

Movies for Ildikó Bánsági...

Erasing Frank
Title: Erasing Frank
Released: October 7, 2021
Type: Movie
Set in 1983, behind the Iron Curtain of Eastern Europe in Budapest, the film follows Frank, the charismatic singer of a banned punk band that carries the voice of their generation against a totalitarian regime. Taken to the police psychiatric hospital in an attempt to silence him, Frank will sacrifice everything to resist.
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Title: Korhatáros szerelem
Character: Márta
Released: December 2, 2017
Type: TV
Families come in all shapes and sizes Dávid, a 24-year-old ordinary slacker, finds his life turned upside down when he meets the girl of his dreams - Eszter - and her three kids. 'Korhatáros szerelem' is a light-hearted, feel-good family drama which demonstrates one of the realities of modern life - that families come in all different shapes and sizes. In this series, home is where the heart is - even if that home is crammed full of kids, teenagers, ex-mother-in-laws and hangers-on. Can this unconventional relationship survive the age difference and the pressures of the multi-generational household? Can Dávid step up (no pun intended) and be a proper parent? Should he even try to? Can this unruly bunch live happily ever after as one big happy family?
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Keleti Pu.
Title: Keleti Pu.
Released: May 19, 2010
Type: Movie
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Koccanás
Title: Koccanás
Character: Naccsága
Released: January 1, 2009
Type: Movie
Feature film
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Para
Title: Para
Character: Etus
Released: October 15, 2008
Type: Movie
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Panic
Title: Panic
Character: Elli
Released: March 6, 2008
Type: Movie
A collage of human fates, where all shown characters are suffering from panic attacks. Stories like a policeman who is willing to come out or a young business woman who achieved her life goals too early.
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Children of Glory
Title: Children of Glory
Character: Karcsi anyja
Released: October 23, 2006
Type: Movie
Children of Glory will commemorate Hungary's heroic Revolution of 1956, and takes place in Budapest and at the Melbourne Olympic Games in October and November of that year. While Soviet tanks were destroying Hungary, the Hungarian water polo team was winning over the Soviets in the Olympic pool in Melbourne, in what has been described as the bloodiest water polo match in history.
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Hungarian Vagabond
Title: Hungarian Vagabond
Character: Áltörök nő
Released: February 5, 2004
Type: Movie
A Hungarian historical movie that tells the story of the Hungarian ancestors, the seven leaders, who are looking for their new homeland in the last years of the 9th century. Before they leave their original home in Asia, they have a farewell party. They wake up with a severe hangover after consuming large quantities of kumis. The seven leaders wake up to find that their people have disappeared.
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Rosehill
Title: Rosehill
Character: Sári
Released: July 9, 2003
Type: Movie
The film shows the times directly before and after the revolution of 1956 in a Rosehill villa and its garden, guarded by the state security, from the perspective of a powerful party functionary’s children living there. The children witness a lot of things they do not understand, mysterious things, which they interpret in their own way.
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Rose's Songs
Title: Rose's Songs
Character: Lili
Released: March 19, 2003
Type: Movie
Autumn 1944. Yellow star, ghettos, Arrow Cross terror. The inhabitants of Hungary's capital, Budapest, await the tragic fulfilment of their fate with helpless resignation. However, above one of the city's villas, once a week in the evening the stars of hope sparkle, if only for a few minutes. This short time gives fresh heart to those hiding here and kindles hope in their tortured souls to live for another day. This mysterious power is none other than a beautiful song that can be heard at such times from the villa's tower room.
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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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The Rebellion of the Straw Men
Title: The Rebellion of the Straw Men
Released: January 1, 2001
Type: Movie
Buda, 1851. Jeromos Hétszáz, a puppet maker living in Óbuda, and his wife, Óguszta, a childless couple, have given refuge to the orphans of those fallen in the war of liberty or jailed, most recently to Pál Penyige and Borbála Derelye. Overjoyed when the chief of police orders fifty straw puppets, they are distressed on learning that the puppets will be publicly hanged in effigy of Lajos Kossuth and the leaders of the war of liberty.
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Passion
Title: Passion
Character: A feleség
Released: October 22, 1998
Type: Movie
A woman and her lover plot to kill her older husband.
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Abel in America
Title: Abel in America
Released: February 5, 1998
Type: Movie
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Junk Movie
Title: Junk Movie
Character: Körzeti orvosnő
Released: December 11, 1992
Type: Movie
It is 1989, the year of the demise of socialism in eastern Europe. Nevertheless, the one theme of Junk Movie does not refer to this historical moment of high ideals, quite the contrary, the wild, burlesque of a motif-mozaic seems merely to stick it’s tongue out at the arrogant players of politics who have their heads stuck in the clouds. The film rudely points out the mystery and unapproachability surrounding the every-day existence of politics. The scene is a greasy, falling-down block of a pub called the Gólya and its immediate surroundings.
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Je t'aime
Title: Je t'aime
Released: June 6, 1992
Type: Movie
The story of a love-triangle is recounted through Anitas memories and jagged monologue. Anita is tremendously naive and in love, Laci is a petty small-town gangster with great powers of persuasion and the secret lover of Szilvi. The three of them leave for Vienna, where Laci sells off the two girls to a peep-show for some small money.
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The Blue Danube Waltz
Title: The Blue Danube Waltz
Released: May 30, 1992
Type: Movie
When Hungary's newest prime minister is shot and killed at a reception, the resulting investigation is necessarily swift and comprehensive. This compelling political thriller uncovers two prime suspects: the woman who guns the leader down, and a man who was friends with both the prime minister and his murderer. Using video surveillance footage, as well as other more artful and symbolic imagery, the noted "visualist" director Miklos Jancso, who is known for his craft in getting his points across non-verbally, combines fantasy and reality in a highly ironic manner.
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Dear Emma, Sweet Böbe
Title: Dear Emma, Sweet Böbe
Character: Emma (voice)
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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Meeting Venus
Title: Meeting Venus
Released: November 15, 1991
Type: Movie
Celebrated Swedish opera star Karin Anderson is slated to appear in an internationally-telecast production of Tannhauser. Ms. Anderson balks at the notion of working with obscure Hungarian conductor Zoltan Szanto. The much-anticipated production may never get off the ground, thanks to labor-management difficulties, intramural jealousies, and clashing egos. Amidst all this chaos, the mismatched Anderson and Szanto fall in love.
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Diary for My Father and My Mother
Title: Diary for My Father and My Mother
Character: Ildi
Released: January 2, 1990
Type: Movie
This story follows a young student, who is orphaned as she grows to adulthood in the shadow of the 1956 Hungarian uprising. Coming from the Communist intelligentsia, she sees her friends and family react differently. Her lover, a married factory manager, supports the patriots and later assists fellow workers in staging a strike. Meanwhile her sister and others express anger at being forced from their homes during the revolution and continue to express a hatred for the rebels afterwards. But in the end they realize that for all people, real life is not possible after the revolt and its brutal suppression by the Soviets and their collaborators.
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Jesus Christ's Horoscope
Title: Jesus Christ's Horoscope
Character: Márta
Released: October 12, 1989
Type: Movie
A focus on the tormented lives of intellectuals who failed to protest recent troubles in their homeland. Jancsó emphasizes highly evocative and ambiguous imagery over dialog or exposition as he – through visually fascinating imagery – depicts the painful, stunted lives of Hungary's intellectuals who have remained silent and ineffectual during various political crises.
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Truants
Title: Truants
Character: Orosztanárnõ
Released: September 14, 1989
Type: Movie
In the country reformatory school both the teacher and the children are trapped by the circumstances. From among the pupils excels Sanyi, who cannot accept the fact that his mother does not love him and he keeps on escaping after her. From among the teachers it is Mr. Csőrös who distinguishes himself by listening to the children, looking for those who escaped, Sanyi feels affection to him.
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Erdély Aranykora
Title: Erdély Aranykora
Character: Apafiné, Bornemissza Anna
Released: February 1, 1989
Type: Movie
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Hanussen
Title: Hanussen
Character: Sister Betty
Released: May 20, 1988
Type: Movie
A man's story parallels Hitler's rise. Austrian Klaus Schneider, wounded in World War I, recovers in the care of Dr. Emil Bettleheim. Bettleheim discovers that Schneider possesses powers of empathy and of clairvoyance, such that could aid suicidal patients. After the war, with one friend as his manager and another as his lover, Schneider changes his name to Eric Jan Hanussen and goes to Berlin, as a hypnotist and clairvoyant performing in halls and theaters. He always speaks the truth, which brings him to the attention of powerful Nazis. He predicts their rise (good propaganda for them) and their violence (not so good). He's in pain and at risk. What is Hanussen's future?
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Hungarian Dracula
Title: Hungarian Dracula
Character: Rózsika
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
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Diary for My Loves
Title: Diary for My Loves
Character: Ildi
Released: October 1, 1987
Type: Movie
A continuation of "Diary for My Children," the film picks up in 1950, when Juli, the diarist, is 18 and determined to become a movie director.
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Gréti - A Dog's Notes
Title: Gréti - A Dog's Notes
Character: Gréti (voice)
Released: March 5, 1986
Type: Movie
Gréti, a German shepherd, searches for her missing puppy.
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What's the Time, Mr. Clock?
Title: What's the Time, Mr. Clock?
Released: August 14, 1985
Type: Movie
Even without a clock, the watch-maker of the small country town always knows the exact time to the second, and for this reason he came to be called Mr. Clock. His wife left him, and he only lives for his work. He is just engaged in repairing the tower clock when his wife returns and the German troops appear.
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Title: Kémeri
Character: Gédikéné Angéla
Released: July 4, 1985
Type: TV
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The Palisade Street Kidnapping
Title: The Palisade Street Kidnapping
Character: Kondor mama
Released: January 1, 1985
Type: Movie
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Átok és szerelem
Title: Átok és szerelem
Character: Hilda
Released: January 1, 1985
Type: Movie
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Diary for My Children
Title: Diary for My Children
Character: Juli's mother
Released: May 3, 1984
Type: Movie
After having lost her parents, young Juli returns from the Soviet Union to her native Budapest. Scarred by the wounds of the past, the ghost of Stalin’s oppression haunts her as she reunites with her aunt and adoptive mother Magda.
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Marriage with Days off
Title: Marriage with Days off
Released: January 1, 1984
Type: Movie
Mici, a pretty young girl is a selected swimmer. Laci, her trainer looks after her jealously, mainly because of her condition.
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The Long Ride
Title: The Long Ride
Character: Klara
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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Title: Egymilliárd évvel a világvége előtt
Character: Irka
Released: August 5, 1983
Type: TV
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Another Way
Title: Another Way
Character: Szalánczky Éva (voice)
Released: May 1, 1982
Type: Movie
Political and sexual repression in Hungary, just after the revolution of 1956. In 1958, the body of Eva Szalanczky, a political journalist, is discovered near the border. Her friend Livia is in hospital with a broken neck; Livia's husband, Donci, is under arrest. In a flashback to the year before, we see what leads up to the tragedy. Eva gets a job as a writer. She meets Livia and is attracted to her. Livia feels much the same, but as a married woman, has doubts and hesitations. In their work, they (and Eva in particular) bang up against the limits of telling political truths; in private, they confront the limits of living out sexual and emotional truth.
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Mephisto
Title: Mephisto
Character: Nicoletta von Niebuhr
Released: February 11, 1981
Type: Movie
A German stage actor finds unexpected success and mixed blessings in the popularity of his performance in a Faustian play as the Nazis take power in pre-WWII Germany. As his associates and friends flee or are ground under by the Nazi terror, the popularity of his character supercedes his own existence until he finds that his best performance is keeping up appearances for his Nazi patrons.
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Confidence
Title: Confidence
Character: Kata
Released: January 10, 1980
Type: Movie
Janos and Kata are thrown together during the Second World War and forced to pose as husband and wife to hide from the Nazis. The intensity and suffocating intimacy of their new relationship and the circumstances in which they find themselves, forces them to confront past prejudices and assumptions and challenge what they truly believe.
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The Last Judgement But One
Title: The Last Judgement But One
Character: Az asszony
Released: April 17, 1979
Type: Movie
The man is promoted and given a new assignment at his work-place. At home, he stares at a video-cassette: it portrays his wife's face in countless versions, she is sometimes simply beautiful, then unfathomable, but it is mostly a sad, closed, lonely face.
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Peter and Paul
Title: Peter and Paul
Released: November 16, 1978
Type: Movie
The subject-matter of this comedy is age-old: that of the schizophrenic soul. Papa would have liked boy twins years ago, but her wife gave birth to a single child weighing six kilograms. He would like to dampen his feeling of emptiness by having the boy registered both as Péter and Pál.
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Budapest Tales
Title: Budapest Tales
Character: Nanette
Released: March 2, 1977
Type: Movie
"Budapest Tales" is about a group of people (consisting of Szabo regular Andras Balint along with Ildiko Bansagi and Karoly Kovacs) who find a broken down tram while trying to go to the city. The people band together and try to get the tram back on the train tracks and head towards the city. Along this journey the passengers encounter many people who join them on the tram. What started out as only a handful of people has now turned into a small village. As the people travel on to the city each person takes on certain roles and through the course of time these roles will change. Some people fall in love, others out of love, and a few even die. But life goes on. The people keep the tram going hoping to reach Budapest.
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Black Diamond
Title: Black Diamond
Character: Angéla
Released: February 17, 1977
Type: Movie
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A bosszú
Title: A bosszú
Character: Liza
Released: January 1, 1977
Type: Movie
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Szépség Háza
Title: Szépség Háza
Character: Viktor modellje
Released: July 23, 1976
Type: Movie
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Don't Pull My Beard!
Title: Don't Pull My Beard!
Character: Keksz
Released: August 13, 1975
Type: Movie
This absurd story, bordering on the drawing-room comedy, portrays the practices of abusing power and the insolence of bureaucracy through the revolting of a young designer-engineer of the Railway Tilting Examination Board. The ambitious Pócsik works persevearingly on how to compensate for the tilting of railway carriages in bends. His jealous bosses, however, use their best efforts to block the development of an innovation.
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Dashing Girls
Title: Dashing Girls
Character: Brigitta
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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Félálom
Title: Félálom
Released: January 1, 1974
Type: Movie
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Journey with Jacob
Title: Journey with Jacob
Released: August 12, 1972
Type: Movie
István and Jakab are fire-extinguisher experts. They travel the country to check fire-extinguishers at country factories. During their tours of inspection they chase women, drink in dirty pubs and live in clover.
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Makra
Title: Makra
Released: June 5, 1972
Type: Movie
The events of the story take place in the outskirts of working class people in the early nineteen fifties. Makra, a skilled worker in a factory, suddenly comes to close quarters with everything around him because his environment condemns and ridicules him for protecting a woman when his drunk fellows were going to rape her after his bachelor party.
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Sinbad
Title: Sinbad
Character: Mária
Released: November 25, 1971
Type: Movie
Based on the stories of Hungarian writer Gyula Krúdy, this iconic film is a lush and sensuous depiction of the life, loves and memories of serial seducer Szindbád.
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Birdies
Title: Birdies
Character: Ida
Released: September 11, 1971
Type: Movie
The heroines of this lyric comedy full of burlesque elements are two girls from a village who get totally engrossed in their day-dreaming. Ida and Rozi escape to the city to catch husbands for themselves.