Péter Andorai

The fate of a Hungarian Jewish family throughout the 20th century.

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.

第2次世界大戦末期の1944年、双子の兄弟は、都会から田舎に疎開する。祖母は20年ぶりに戻った娘との再会にも不満顔。双子たちだけが農場に残され、村人たちに魔女とうわさされる祖母のもとで水くみやまき割りなどの仕事をこなしていく。＜ハンガリー出身のアゴタ・クリストフの小説を映画化し、第2次世界大戦下の過酷な時代を生き抜いた双子の日記を通して世界を見つめた衝撃作。両親と離れて見知らぬ村に預けられた少年たちが、日々激化する戦いの中で自分たちのルールに従い厳しい状況に追い込んでいく姿を描き出す。双子のアンドラーシュ＆ラースロー・ギーマーントが圧倒的な存在感を発揮。大人たちの世界を冷徹に見据える兄弟の選択が心をかき乱す。＞

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?

A tale of twin girls, Dóra and Lili, who are born in 1880 Budapest at the same moment Thomas Edison presents his electric lightbulb to the world. The sisters are soon orphaned and separated in childhood, and follow different paths: one grows up to be a naïvely idealistic, bomb-toting anarchist, the other a pampered, hedonistic courtesan. Their paths cross once again on the Orient Express on New Year's Eve 1899...

Emerenc, an elderly and private woman, is hired to be the housekeeper of a struggling writer, Magda. An event in the writer's life prompts Emerenc to disclose details of her traumatizing past, which will bond the two women forever. Based on the novel by Magda Szabó.

Vilmos Gonda, a former bomb expert, wants revenge for the rape of his daughter Mari at a house party. Gonda even sheds human blood for this, but he has no idea that his daughter is also responsible for what happened, and she does not want to press charges. In fact, she feels it is more important to assert herself in this kind of friendship at any cost...

A true story about Johann Georg Elser, a quiet carpenter who tried to assassinate Hitler with an explosive device in 1939.