Pál Mácsai

Pál Mácsai

Born: March 31, 1961
in Budapest, Hungary

Movies for Pál Mácsai...

Mesterjátszma
Title: Mesterjátszma
Character: Czentovics Sándor
Released: November 9, 2023
Type: Movie
Based on a novel by the Austrian writer Stefan Zweig and follows a young, revolutionary couple aboard the last train leaving Budapest after the Russian invasion of 1956.
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The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Title: The Mysterious Affair at Styles
Character: Hercule Poirot
Released: June 8, 2022
Type: Movie
A collage crime movie from the first novel of Agatha Christie.
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The Triptych of the Keeper
Title: The Triptych of the Keeper
Character: Narrátor
Released: May 11, 2022
Type: Movie
Experimental short movie adaptation of István Örkény's one-minute story "Information" by director Annabella Schnabel.
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Title: The Informant
Character: Szabó József
Released: April 1, 2022
Type: TV
Behind the Iron Curtain, Geri leaves for college, looks forward to meeting girls and partying and joins a group of radicals led by the charismatic Száva. But Geri has a secret. He’s an informant of the totalitarian state and to save his brother, he’s been forced to spy on his new friends for State Security.
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A hattyú
Title: A hattyú
Character: Jácint, a bátyja
Released: March 1, 2022
Type: Movie
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Impostor
Title: Impostor
Character: csillagász
Released: September 24, 2021
Type: Movie
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Cream
Title: Cream
Character: önmaga
Released: September 10, 2020
Type: Movie
The love of 34-year-old Dora's life, has broken up with her - or worse: he has remarried. Her only joy, the pastry shop she owns, also appears to be lost. She makes up her mind to get both her ex-boyfriend and her pastry shop back, even if it means she has to lie. Along the way, she meets other families, as well as her ex-boyfriend's new wife. These meetings make her realise the love she is clinging onto has no real basis. Dora stops living in a state of romantic self-pity, puts an end to the lying and opens up to the possibility of a new real relationship.
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Unfinished Business
Title: Unfinished Business
Character: Géza Kovács
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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Újjászületés
Title: Újjászületés
Character: Doctor
Released: December 26, 2019
Type: Movie
A true story of a prisoner of the Siberian Gulag about hope. About hope, that we can stay human beings during the cruelest suffering.
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Hope You Die Next Time :-)
Title: Hope You Die Next Time :-)
Character: István
Released: September 13, 2018
Type: Movie
Eszter, 16, is secretly in love with her English teacher, while Peter, also 16, is hopelessly in love with Eszter. One day, the teacher announces that he is leaving the school to move to London. That same day, Eszter receives a farewell e-mail message from him. An online affair begins and spirals into sexual abuse.
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Bye Bye Germany
Title: Bye Bye Germany
Character: Szoros
Released: April 6, 2017
Type: Movie
David Berman and his friends, all Holocaust survivors, have only one purpose: to go to America as soon as possible. For this they need money. Close to his aim, David is not only deprived of his savings but also overtaken by his shady past.
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On Body and Soul
Title: On Body and Soul
Character: Detective
Released: March 2, 2017
Type: Movie
Two introverted people find out by pure chance that they share the same dream every night. They are puzzled, incredulous, a bit frightened. As they hesitantly accept this strange coincidence, they try to recreate in broad daylight what happens in their dream.
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Title: In Treatment
Character: Dargay András
Released: October 22, 2012
Type: TV
A successful psychologist battles with problems in his personal life.
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Dear Betrayed Friends
Title: Dear Betrayed Friends
Character: Szerkesztő
Released: September 13, 2012
Type: Movie
Andor Czettl, in his early sixties, visits the secret service archives one day to read into the reports about himself and discovers a shocking fact. His very best friend János Pásztor was an informer, spying on him and writing reports about him for decades. Sára Cserhalmi's first feature focuses not so much on the actual problem of informing and betrayal as on the contradictory relationship of the two protagonists. It avoids any final judgments. First and foremost, it seeks answers to questions like how an informer can live in our present times and how the one being reported on can cope with this state. Can a close friendship that began decades ago last if such betrayal comes to light? How can someone live and cope with this fact?
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1
Title: 1
Character: Al F. Eveson
Released: November 5, 2009
Type: Movie
A bookshop renowned for its rare works is mysteriously and completely filled with copies of a book entitled 1, which doesn't appear to have a publisher or author. The strange almanac describes what happens to the whole of humanity in the space of a minute. A police investigation begins and the bookshop staff are placed in solitary confinement by the Bureau for Paranormal Research (RDI Reality Defense Institute). As the investigation progresses, the situation becomes more complex and the book increasingly well known, raising numerous controversies (political, scientific, religious and artistic). Plagued by doubts, the protagonist has to face facts: reality only exists in the imagination of individuals.
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The Moon and the Stars
Title: The Moon and the Stars
Character: Otto Walser
Released: February 2, 2007
Type: Movie
1939: Rome stands on the brink of World War II. In the midst of this political and social tension famed producer Davide Rieta is making a major film. The two lead actors, the German woman Kristina Baumgarten and the English man James Clavel ace each others' initial antagonism and eventually fall in love. Meanwhile the fascist police are looking for an excuse to arrest the Jewish filmmaker and any other potential "troublemakers." The producer and his crew decide to make one final extraordinary effort to complete the film - against all odds.
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Rokonok
Title: Rokonok
Released: February 9, 2006
Type: Movie
Young honest public official is sworn in after his predecessor had to leave due to a corruption scandal. Soon, the young idealist discovers just how far-reaching the corruption is in his town and how easy it is to become corrupt yourself.
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The Unburied Man
Title: The Unburied Man
Character: Vida Ferenc
Released: October 21, 2004
Type: Movie
One of the doyennes of Hungarian film deals with a dark period of national history: the Soviet regime in Hungary. She portrays it through the fate of the former prime minister and national hero, Imre Nagy. The script is based on the diary written by Imre Nagy, and the memories of his daughter, Erzsébet Nagy, as well as authentic documents and records.
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Abandoned
Title: Abandoned
Character: Csapó
Released: August 28, 2001
Type: Movie
Áron is a happy child in his family. But at some point things take a different turn, and his mother starts to lose her health rapidly. As this happens, the man in charge decides what's best for Áron without consulting the young boy's opinion, and the boy finds himself thrown out of his warm home into an orphanage in the woods. He's utterly displeased by what's happening, without knowing he has yet to face much worse...
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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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Elmondták-e...?
Title: Elmondták-e...?
Released: January 1, 1996
Type: Movie
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A Valencia rejtély
Title: A Valencia rejtély
Character: Cholnoky Sándor (fiatal)
Released: January 1, 1995
Type: Movie
Hungarian TV-movie, adaptation of a drama by Géza Ottlik.
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Stalin's Bride
Title: Stalin's Bride
Character: Genagyij Pesztyarjov, tornatanár
Released: August 14, 1991
Type: Movie
At a dusty crossroads in the Soviet Union villagers surrender their possessions - a horse, a samovar, a goat - to the state. The train which takes them away brings to the village a physically and mentally handicapped woman, barely able to speak. She makes herself bracelets of burrs and studies herself in a cracked and cloudy mirror. Befriended by very few, teased and tormented by many she seeks protection at a huge portrait of Stalin.
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Title: Nyolc évszak
Character: Dr. Pinczés János
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: TV
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The House-Warming
Title: The House-Warming
Character: Váradi Róbert
Released: August 12, 1983
Type: Movie
The elite of political and business life of the country town gather to celebrate the namesday of László in the luxury villa. Everything begins just as usual, but now an incident disturbs the stag party.