Levente Orbán

The Brutalist filmi, İkinci Dünya Savaşı’ndan sonra "Amerikan rüyasını" yaşamak için ABD’ye göç eden Macaristan doğumlu, Bauhaus eğitimli Holokost kurtulanı mimar Laszlo’nun yolculuğunu ve hayat hikâyesini anlatıyor. Başlangıçta yoksulluk içinde çalışmaya zorlanan Laszlo, kısa süre sonra hayatının seyrini 30 yıl boyunca değiştirecek bir kontrata imza atar. Yenilikçi kamera oyunları, dramatik yapısı, alışılmadık açı ve kadrajları, kurgusu ve sıradışı ses tasarımı, parlak oyuncu kadrosuyla hem şaşırtıcı hem de unutulmaz.

Bugüne kadar soykırım üzerine çekilmiş filmlerden bambaşka bir yaklaşım izlemesiyle dikkat çeken filmde, Naziler tarafından toplama kampında iş yapmaya zorlanan “Sonderkommando”lardan Yahudi esir Saul’un hayatının iki gününe odaklanılıyor. Saul, bir gün cesetlerin yakıldığı imha fırınında oğlu olduğunu düşündüğü bir çocuğun cesedini görür. Saul, oğlunun cesedini yakılmaktan kurtarıp usulünce toprağa vermeyi takıntı haline getirecektir.

Yaşadığı ülkeden babası ile birlikte kaçmaya çalışan Aryan, sınıra vardıklarında ırkçı bir polis tarafından vurulur. Ölümün kıyısına kadar gelen Aryan hayatta kalmayı başarır ve mucizevi bir şekilde süper güçler kazanır. İçine girmiş olduğu yeni dünyaya alışmaya çalışan Aryan, tanıştığı ahlaksız bir doktorla kendisini farklı maceralar içerisinde bulur.

Muggy heat, small-town bleakness, unspoken social problems, hierarchy fights. This is Tuzko town, somewhere in Hungary, nowadays. Here comes Misi who inherits his grandfather's house and his property. Misi is a disillusioned, frustrated, constantly refugee young man. He can't find his role in his life, his job and relationship. He starts to build and renovate the house with some men from the town, but it violates the local oligarch's interests. Hard struggle begins for the property, for the love and for the life.

When 19-year-old Aathi and her family, as the first farmers ever, arrive in what is now known as Denmark, her family is killed by a local tribe of hunter-gatherers. To survive, Aathi and her brother are forced to live with the tribe.

A weekend hunting party in Transylvania becomes something darker when the true motives and histories of the hunters are revealed following a shooting.

A young, revolutionary couple aboard the last train leaving Budapest after the Russian invasion of 1956. Based on a novel by the Austrian writer Stefan Zweig.

The story revolves around Balint, a Hungarian obstetrician and soon-to-be father, who returns to his native village in north-eastern Romania to face the son he abandoned 17 years ago.

In the cruel world of Hungarian folk tales, everything smells of blood and gunpowder. The three sons of a poor man return home to their father after ten years of absence. But the kind-hearted shepherd, the ruthless outlaw and the recently discharged officer have no idea that terrible danger awaits them at the site of their childhood. Their father has made a pact with the devil: in exchange for wealth beyond imagination, he has sold one of their souls to the lord of hell. And the devil always comes to collect...

In 1849, the liberation war against the Habsburg Empire is close to its end in Hungary. Having hidden from military draft, Barnabás leaves his hometown and walks across the country to find and save his wounded brother who has been hiding with a guerilla group deep in the forest. Despite their exhaustion, lack of food or information, they are still fighting for their cause. Barnabás finds his brother alienated and distrustful. The tension between the boys further increases when they turn out to be attracted to the same nurse in the camp. Hoping he can earn his brother's trust and take him home, Barnabás decides to stay and lie about his past. In the meantime, he has to face the cruelty of war.

Late at night, Istvan becomes the only witness to an accident on the road, but an influential person wants to make him forget what he saw. Will he be able to protect himself and his own family and at the same time remain human?

The film is about the lack of human touch. The dystopia is set in a world where an unknown virus makes people unable to touch each other. Mother, father, son: we confront the problem through a Hungarian family, and search for a solution with them in this extraordinary road movie. It is no coincidence that the story takes place in winter. And it is no coincidence that it takes place by Europe's largest lake. Where the landscape is icy and cold and blue and white. And only in flashbacks do we find ourselves in the warm summer. When all seemed well.

The story of János Hunyadi is the epic tale of a hero born into modest circumstances, who, in 1456, with relentless determination and against all odds, vanquished the much larger Ottoman army, halting its drive to conquer the Vatican and overrun Western Europe. In so doing, Hunyadi not only shaped the history of Hungary, but that of all Europe.

King Andrew II's accession to the throne proved to be an adventure, and he set to work to take decisive action against the country's enemies. In 1222, he passed a set of laws that changed economic policy and became a unique document in the history of Europe.