István Znamenák

István Znamenák

Born: January 8, 1966
in Budapest, Hungary

Movies for István Znamenák...

A kérvény
Title: A kérvény
Released: April 26, 2024
Type: Movie
Surreal story about an old lady, who request a permit from the bureau to sneeze. Sneezing is prohibited.
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Semmelweis
Title: Semmelweis
Character: Mosodás
Released: November 30, 2023
Type: Movie
Set in 19th century Vienna, Ignac Semmelweis, a short-tempered but passionate doctor, delivers babies and carries out autopsies on a daily basis while looking for the cause of puerperal fever, the mysterious epidemic that decimates patients in the hospital.
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Title: Angyaltrombiták
Character: Papi
Released: October 7, 2023
Type: TV
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Explanation for Everything
Title: Explanation for Everything
Character: György
Released: October 5, 2023
Type: Movie
It’s summer in Budapest, high school student Abel is struggling to focus on his final exams, whilst coming to the realisation that he is hopelessly in love with his best friend Janka. The studious Janka has her own unrequited love with married history teacher Jakab—who had a previous confrontation with Abel’s conservative father. The tensions of a polarised society come unexpectedly to the surface when Abel’s history graduation exam turns into a national scandal.
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White Plastic Sky
Title: White Plastic Sky
Character: Director
Released: March 30, 2023
Type: Movie
2123. Faced with diminishing resources, the human race can only survive through a trade-off: at the age of 50, every citizen is gradually turned into a tree. When Stefan discovers that his beloved wife Nora has voluntarily signed up for donating her own body before her time, he sets out on an adventurous journey to save her at all costs.
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Affricate
Title: Affricate
Character: Receptionist
Released: August 4, 2022
Type: Movie
A single mother’s adventure by the seaside leads her to recognise her unnecessary martyrdom for her disabled teenage daughter.
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Title: The Informant
Character: Béla
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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Eviction
Title: Eviction
Character: András
Released: March 17, 2022
Type: Movie
A young court bailiff's first eviction case turns into a nightmare because of a desperate old lady who is willing to sacrifice everything to keep her home.
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Title: Hotel Margaret
Character: Maxim
Released: January 31, 2022
Type: TV
Hungary's favorite influencers arrive at a prestigious awards ceremony in Tihany to find out who has become the most successful videographer of the year. During the award ceremony, after the shooting of a faulty confetti cannon, the winner collapses on stage. Was there an accident or an intentional murder?
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Small Coincidences
Title: Small Coincidences
Released: May 20, 2021
Type: Movie
Gertrúd is a middle-aged music teacher. She lives with her art-restorer husband and their teenage son. She is weary of family life, and her relationship with her husband leaves much to be desired. Gertrúd’s settled world is turned upside down when a former student of hers, the beautiful Albán, suddenly shows up. Her presence prompts questions about the past, present, and future. Reality, memories and dreams intermingle dangerously, and the old family roles slowly begin to change. “I wanted this film to be like an enchanted box full of stories and surprises”, Péter Gothár explains. “Its drawers are meant to open in a mysterious rhythm, offering joy and food for thought. First, there was the music of Bartók, which then became the film's main organizing element. It formed around the music – this whole family story full of love and irony”.
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Second Round
Title: Second Round
Character: Bizottsági elnök
Released: April 20, 2021
Type: Movie
In a world where childbirth is state-regulated, a couple applies for a license to have a child. They pass the first round of the process, but have no idea what awaits them in the second round.
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The Ark of Nino
Title: The Ark of Nino
Character: Nino
Released: December 3, 2019
Type: Movie
The story focuses on people who suffer from different kinds of disabilities, but they also live whole lifes, they are people who just want to lead a normal life, to work and to prevail.
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Comrade Drakulich
Title: Comrade Drakulich
Character: Cserkó Jenő
Released: October 31, 2019
Type: Movie
Vampires are among us! But no need to worry: the Hungarian Secret Police are after them, and beyond the usual spy gadgets, they even use garlic to repel the beasts.
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1945
Title: 1945
Character: Station Master
Released: April 20, 2017
Type: Movie
An unsettling feeling overwhelms a small Hungarian town when two orthodox Jews arrive with a mysterious trunk. As residents begin to speculate on the purpose of the visit of these two strangers, order starts to crumble in town with some pursuing devious plans and others finding remorse in their hearts.
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The Citizen
Title: The Citizen
Released: January 26, 2017
Type: Movie
The heart-wrenching story of The Citizen begins with a citizenship exam, where the examination committee rigorously questions a middle-aged African man. No matter how beautifully he recites Hungarian poetry, Wilson, a political refugee in his late fifties, fails the exams for the umpteenth time, because he doesn’t know where the periodical ‘Magyar Közlöny’ got its name from, and what the Corvinae are. Moreover, inspired by Vörösmarty’s poem, the committee chairman even questions his reasons for leaving his mother country. Wilson argues that his reasons include his fellow citizens cutting pregnant women in half, yet he doesn’t manage to soften the heart of the committee members.
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Ischler
Title: Ischler
Character: Officer
Released: January 1, 2014
Type: Movie
Budapest, 1944. Three sisters are hiding in the apartment of a well-known doctor during the Holocaust. Their days are filled with paranoia, and it turns out that evil might come from unexpected places.
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Hőskeresők
Title: Hőskeresők
Character: Csornai
Released: August 27, 2013
Type: Movie
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Title: In Treatment
Character: Börtönőr
Released: October 22, 2012
Type: TV
A successful psychologist battles with problems in his personal life.
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Adrienn Pál
Title: Adrienn Pál
Character: Kálmán
Released: March 17, 2011
Type: Movie
Piroska is an overweight, alienated nurse who can’t resist cream-filled pastries. She works in the terminal ward of a hospital; her life is surrounded by death. One day she sets off to find her long-lost childhood friend. While tracing her recollections, she embarks on a paradox-filled voyage within her own memory and the memory of those she encounters.
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Papírrepülők
Title: Papírrepülők
Character: Titi's father (Story #1)
Released: January 1, 2009
Type: Movie
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Father's Acre
Title: Father's Acre
Released: January 1, 2009
Type: Movie
Love makes a bad relationship between father and son all the more rancorous in this drama from Hungarian director Viktor Oszkar Nagy. A convict (Janos Derzsi) returns home after a long stretch in prison to a less than enthusiastic welcome; his son (Tamas Ravasz), now in his late teens, was left to fend for himself and tend the family farm on his own after his dad went away, and the youngster blames his father for his mother's untimely death. The father wants to mend his relationship with his son, but the young man makes no secret of his contempt for his dad, and only grudgingly allows him back on the farm.
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Passport
Title: Passport
Released: November 1, 2001
Type: Movie
The slow decay of a marriage sets the stage for this drama, which is leavened with understated humor. In 1988, Jozsi (Gergely Kocsis) is a Hungarian laborer who decides to marry Elizaveta (Eniko Borcsok), a woman of Hungarian descent living in the Ukraine. 1996 finds Joszi and Elizaveta the parents of a young girl, but otherwise their marriage is a shambles; Jozsi has become an alcoholic and Elizaveta has decided she needs to strike out on her own for the sake of her child. Shot on digital video as a project for Hungarian television, Paszport was directed by Peter Gothar, who previously made the international success Megall Az Ido.
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Édes Anna
Title: Édes Anna
Released: November 30, 1989
Type: Movie
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Time Stands Still
Title: Time Stands Still
Character: Dini
Released: October 7, 1982
Type: Movie
A Budapest high school in the beginning of the 1960s. Dini suffers the torments of adolescence. His father had to leave Hungary after the uprise in 1956, and since then Dini's mother has had to take care of her two sons on her own. A friend of Dini’s father, Bodor, is released from prison and moves in with them. Dini and his brother are far from happy about this intrusion on their family life.