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Samu Balázs

Samu Balázs

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1906-05-18

Known For & Full Filmography22 Titles

#1Me and My Grandpa

Movie - 1954, 2h 15m as Králik

7.7 / 10
FamilyAdventureComedy

A few days from a daily life of a regular school in Hungary during fifties.

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#2The Song of Rákóczi

Movie - 1943, 2h 15m as Hosszu kuruc vitéz

10.0 / 10
DramaHistory

Dressed as a gypsy woman, Krisztinka Oltay spies, organizes, and takes measures to help Prince Rákóczi and free his lover, Péter Szakmáry. Péter was taken in by his brother, who was loyal to the emperor, and he wants to execute him in Kassa together with the other Kurucs. Krisztinka inspires the tired kuruc troops with a song and Rákóczi's music to capture Kassa and free the prisoners...

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#3Late Season

Movie - 1967, 2h 15m as Dezső

8.8 / 10
ComedyDrama

Against the backdrop of the Adolph Eichmann trials, an elderly paraplegic pharmacist is summoned to the police station, where he believes that his hidden wartime guilt has caught up with him, unaware that it is all in fact an elaborate practical joke.

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#4Goose Boy

Movie - 1950, 2h 15m as trouper

6.6 / 10
Comedy

A young peasant boy stands up to tyranny, aided by his trusting friend- a goose.

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#5Házassággal kezdődik

Movie - 1943, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

8.8 / 10
Comedy

An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

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#6Faithful for Nothing

Movie - 1966, 2h 15m as Óbori - igazgató

8.0 / 10
Comedy

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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#7A Sunday Romance

Movie - 1957, 2h 15m as major

6.0 / 10
DramaRomance

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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#8Cat's Play

Movie - 1974, 2h 15m as Csermlényi Viktor

4.5 / 10
DramaRomance

Karoly Makk's heartbreaking story of two unmarried sisters who cast wistful glances back at their lives, but still believe in hope and love, earned an Academy Award Nomination for Best Foreign Language Film in 1974. In this follow-up to the director's internationally acclaimed Love, Makk once again exhibits his extraordinary skills at drawing emotionally compelling performances from his talented female leads. Makk's film opposes the bleakness of the outside world with passion, love, and loyalty.

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#9A Strange Marriage

Movie - 1951, 2h 15m as Kanonok

8.0 / 10
Drama

Count János Buttler rushes home to his parents and his beloved for the school holidays. On the way, they stop at Baron Dőry's house, where János is deviously trapped. In the presence of false witnesses, he is forcibly married to Baron Dőry's pregnant daughter. The swearing priest is the father of the unborn child. Although Buttler, his family and friends do their utmost to have the marriage annulled, the Church and the court, fearing for his authority, will not allow it. John Buttler and his lover therefore choose another way to divorce.

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#10A láp virága

Movie - 1942, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

8.8 / 10
Drama

The son of a wealthy landowner, Miklós Pálfalvy, who leads a frivolous life, becomes involved in forging bills of exchange. The forged paper falls into the hands of his future father-in-law, banker Mihályi, who blackmails the young man. Miklós breaks up with Mihályi and decides to go abroad with the rest of his money. Before he leaves, he visits Jessy, a beautiful florist girl with whom he has been attracted for some time. After a nice day together, Nicholas is arrested and sent to prison. In despair, he attempts suicide, but later, when he starts working in the prison blacksmith's shop on the advice of the chaplain, the welcome fatigue of hard work and the sober philosophy of the blacksmith heal his soul. After his release, he breaks with his social class, works as a blacksmith and marries Jessy, who has been faithfully waiting for him.

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#11A Journey Around My Skull

Movie - 1970, 2h 15m as Pötzl professzor

6.0 / 10
Drama

The film is a story of a double journey. The main character of the first journey is the author himself, who, while sitting in his customary café, suddenly realises that he has hallucinations. The psychologist reassures him that all this is merely repression. The symptoms, however, appear again. Soon it turns out that the author has a brain tumour. Professor Pötzl in Vienna suggests operation right away. The intervention, through which he is awake, is carried out in a Stockholm clinic.

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#12Taming the Shrew

Movie - 1943, 2h 15m as Inas

6.5 / 10
Comedy

Pálma, the spoilt daughter of the rich manufacturer, is a true monster in the house. The house staff flee her and even her father can hardly wait to marry her off.

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#13Cseresznyéskert

Movie - 1979, 2h 15m as Firsz

8.8 / 10
TV MovieDrama

An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

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#14Csontvary

Movie - 1980, 2h 15m as Emperor Francis Joseph I

6.7 / 10
Drama

Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka the one-ideaed Hungarian painter was thought to be crazy by his peers, but he eventually became a significant artist.

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#15Lily Boy

Movie - 1955, 2h 15m as Szilvay professzor

6.9 / 10
MusicComedy

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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#16The Sea has Risen

Movie - 1953, 2h 15m as count Kolowrath

6.3 / 10
DramaHistory

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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#17Keep Your Chin Up!

Movie - 1954, 2h 15m as Jackson

8.2 / 10
Comedy

On the Spring of 1945 the Jackson circus is heading towards the border with the clown Peti and Aida, the elephant. They have to play for the Hungarian Fascists, while Peti is hiding the Jew Annuska and Sanyika.

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#18Captive Ráby

Movie - 1964, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

10.0 / 10
Drama

Joseph II, the enlightened Austro-Hungarian emperor, entrusts his loyal and confidential subject, Ráby Mátyás, formerly a treasurer, to examine the abuses made by the magistrates of Szentendre and Izbég. Following his old friend, Dacsó Marci's directions, Ráby reveals horrible robberies, tax evasions, frauds, and other illegal acts having been committed against the people.

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#19Singing Makes Life Beautiful

Movie - 1950, 2h 15m as Réz Győző

5.8 / 10
ComedyMusic

"Silver lute", the choral society of the Vác Engine Works, led by Réz, the conductor, is preparing for its 25th anniversary. All the important members of the society, among them Seregély, a magician, are, at the same time, all "fathers" of Zsóka, daughter of a former colleague, who has been killed in an accident, and whom they then adopted.

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#20Club Seven

Movie - 1944, 2h 15m as Fõpincér a Koronában

9.0 / 10
TV MovieComedy

In a small town in the countryside, the election of the president of the restaurant trade association is under way. The two rivals, Dénes Kövi, owner of the elegant Korona restaurant, and Antal Bálint, owner of the staid Makkhetes restaurant, are putting all their eggs in the basket for the title. Taking advantage of this situation, Pál Balázs, who has become the manager of his crippled painter friend, has a portrait commissioned with Dénes Kövi.

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#21Tale on the 12 Points

Movie - 1957, 2h 15m as Üzletvezetõ

9.0 / 10
Comedy

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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#22Aranyborjú

Movie - 1974, 2h 15m Main Cast Role

8.8 / 10
ComedyDrama

In modern Hungary, con artist Bender Oszkár and his motley crew - Barangó and a band of small-time schemers - embark on a series of outrageous scams to track down an “illegal” millionaire and seize ten million for themselves. As they exploit every trick in the book - fake charities, crooked roulette tables, forged documents - their madcap pursuit of easy riches exposes the absurdities and corruptions of contemporary life, with Bender’s fate hanging on whether his “great maneuver” will pay off or blow up in his face.

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