The best Sándor Szakácsi’s movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Sándor Szakácsi’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Sándor Szakácsi.
Yerma
7.7/10
Hungary's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1984
Stephen, the King
8.3/10
István, a király ("Stephen, the King") is a Hungarian rock opera written by Levente Szörényi (music) and János Bródy (lyrics), based on the life of Saint Stephen of Hungary. The storyline was based on the play Ezredforduló (Turn of the Millennium) by Miklós Boldizsár, who co-wrote the libretto. The opera was first staged in 1983 on an open-air stage in Budapest. This first performance was also made into a 1984 film, directed by Gábor Koltay, and its music released on an album. The musical became a smash hit and is still very popular in Hungary and among Hungarian minorities in neighboring countries.
Erdély Aranykora
7.1/10
Midnight Rehearsal
7.3/10
A country theatre wants to stage the historical play of the opposition author, who is famous abroad but it is well known, that he is fatally ill. The ministry unexpectedly bans the premier. The author is not informed about the decision and he wants - before his death - the costume rehearsal of the play. The director and his actors set up a false rehearsal at the price of a long night's tedious job.
Death in Shallow Water
5.9/10
1991, farewell in Budapest. Mária remembers the past in tears. Her husband, Tibor, a chemist and a target of the KGB, left their apartment one evening to fetch some cigarettes only to be found drowned in the shallow Lake Balaton the following day. Their son, Peter, a student in Western-Europe, was found dead on the Danube embankment.
Montecarlo!
4.9/10
Roots
Documentary screenplay, based on letters and writings of the composer Béla Bartók. Musical works composed throughout his life are placed in context alongside the composer's writings from the time. Extracts from all his main works from 1900 to 1945 are included.
