The best Gyula Benkő’s comedy movies

Gyula Benkő

Gyula Benkő

21/08/1918- 30/06/1997
Today we present the best Gyula Benkő’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Gyula Benkő’s movies.

Makkhetes

Makkhetes
5.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyTV Movie
  • Release: 18/08/1944
  • Character: Péter, a festő

A Very Moral Night

A Very Moral Night
6.9/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 06/10/1977
  • Character: Homoródy képviselõ úr
The theme of the delightful Hungarian fantasy film "A Very Moral Night," made in 1977 and now playing at the Public Theater, could well be innocence, even if the action does take place in a bordello. It is a good bordello, so sweet and wholesome that it seems a place of pure beauty and Eden-like charm.

Innocent Assassins

Innocent Assassins
7.3/10
Two arts students, András and Viktor who are writing their thesis on detective stories, make up a story and keep nagging the famous film-director, who just came back from Hollywood, until he undertakes the job. At night they work on the film, in which two youths kill a director returning from the US. In the morning the director is found dead - a knife in his back.

Late Season

Late Season
7.5/10
Kerekes (Antal Pager) believes he is wanted by the police when his friends play a practical joke in this unusual comedy drama. He returns to his hometown where he was accused of turning a Jewish druggist and the druggist's wife over to the Nazis. With his friends following him, Kerekes tries to find out what became of the couple after they were deported. After being subjected to a mock trial by his friends -- and found guilty -- Kerekes becomes despondent and attempts to kill himself. Flashbacks and hallucinations are employed to tell this story that occurs during the Eichmann trial. Both the film and Antal Pager gained some unwanted publicity when a Variety article from April 23rd, 1967 accused Pager of being a Nazi collaborator for his role in an anti-Semitic film during World War II.

Forbidden Marriage

Forbidden Marriage
5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 14/05/1964
  • Character: Thomas Percy
Lilian, daughter of an English millionaire threatens her father that she will marry the first shady character turning up around her and will sing in bars just because her father wants her to marry someone whom she does not love.

Young at Heart

Young at Heart
4.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 09/04/1953
  • Character: Csontos
In the vocational school the professionally excellent Dani János works on his own invention in his leisure time, but he does not like learning. However, even his own father learns in the evenings, he will become a teacher.

Pheasant Tomorrow

Pheasant Tomorrow
6.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 28/04/1974
  • Character: Benkö
The loving couple of this grotesque parable parody of the Kádár-regime, Mária and István row to an uninhabited, idyllic island. Soon crazy tent-pitchers swarm to the island, led by an official representative of the regime.

Keep Your Chin Up!

Keep Your Chin Up!
7.6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 19/08/1954
  • Character: János
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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