Judit Elek Movies

An orphan girl suffers abuse from her adoptive parents.

The painful return of a great writer to his birthplace, Sighet, and to the concentration camps he had to survive.

After her husband's death, Hanna Szendroy, the former primadonna, is caught in the claws of the real estate mafia. She looses her lavish home and...

This two-part film examines the plight of the working class. In part one, an elderly factory laborer goes to work in his last days before he is...

The second part of Judit Eleks long-term documentary about two girls and their lives in a small Hungarian village. What has become of their dreams...

The film shows the heartbreaking state and life of the castles of Keszthely, szecseny, godollo, szigliget, hedervar and their former inhabitants.

A couple in love, but sadly married to other partners. What is to be done? A diagnosis of a comfortable but profoundly incapable society, a Hungary...

In the 19th century Austro-Hungarian Empire, David Hersko, a Jewish shepherd, witnesses the attack of a young girl. His home is burned down and he...

Persuaded by the janitor's wife, a lively, but lonesome old woman, who is only attached to the world through her cherished objects and memories,...

Reconstructions of unrealized Hungarian films in cooperation with the greatest Hungarian film directors.

A man, a woman, an afternoon, a city, and an unspoken, hopeful desire to find love by way of the personal ads. A milestone of Hungarian cinema, Elek...

1952, Budapest. Kati is thirteen years old when her mother dies. Her father works as a founder at the Miskolc foundry, deprived of his former...

For this austere, clear and sharp telefeature, Judit Elek focused on the last months of Martinovics’ life: his interrogation by the Austrians,...

Concert-film-screening to the memory of László Melis

Erno Fisch, the film's protagonist, was born in 1903 in Sighet, the same small town as his world-famous compatriot, Elie Wiesel. Erno Fisch was the...

In March 1974, Hungarian television recorded a concert by Tamas Cech and Ad Libitum as a live concert for two days (16-17) in the largest lecture...

The Hungarian Maria's Day is set in that most fateful of years, 1848. The incredible changes and reverses in European politics and culture exert a...

Katherine, who survived the Holocaust at age seven, visits her fatherland of Transylvania, Romania for the first time departing from Sweden with her...

A television documentary about miners: the reality of their work versus how it is made to look and sound in the public sphere. It contrasts real...

The first part of Judit Eleks long-term documentary portraits the lives of two girls in a small Hungarian village: Marika and Ilonka. As they grow...