Ilona Beres Movies
- 2001
This film concerns a group of high school seniors looking to have fun and get a glimpse of the larger world outside their hometown, but this group of teens is a bit different than those in American Pie or Porky's -- the protagonists of Moszkva Ter are students in Hungary whose last year in high school happens to coincide with the collapse of communism in that nation in 1989. While history is being made all around Petya (Gabor Karalyos) and his friends, they're more concerned with finishing school and finding a more exciting life than those their families have been forced to endure. Petya in particular is eager to see Paris -- partly because a pretty girl (Eszter Balla) he's fallen in love with has already taken the train to France. But Petya's attempts to forge a railway ticket to follow her have unfortunate consequences, as do the hijinks of his buddies. Moszkva Ter was named the Best First Feature during 2001's Hungarian Film Week. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
- Starring:
- Gabor Karalyos
- 1967
In this Hungarian melodrama, Semjen recently freed from a Nazi concentration camp destroyed by Russian tanks marries her idealistic sweetheart Sinkovits. Initially, they are very happy. But then her husband is locked up by the Stalinists. The pragmatic Semjen then reunites with Sztankai, her childhood love. He is now a proletarian poet. Many years pass; Sinkovits is finally freed. Unfortunately, he and his wife have drifted apart. The year is 1956 as Russian tanks rumble through Hungary. Semjen begins to remember the times she shared with Sinkovits after she was freed. She returns to him and they begin building a worker's paradise in their homeland. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
- 1964
The Hungarian Age of Illusions was the first feature-film effort by writer/director Istvan Szabo. Andras Balint plays an electrical engineer who hops from bed to bed, never making any lasting commitment with any one woman. All this changes when he falls in love with a local celebrity whom he sees on television (Ilona Beres). Trouble is, he's never met her; like her other fans, he can assess her only by what he witnesses on the small screen. When he finally does touch base with the girl, he's in for a few surprises-some pleasant, many others not so. Completed in 1965, Age of Illusions was not given widespread distribution until 1967. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Andras Balint, Ilona Beres, (more)
- 1964
Ilona Beres and Ivan Darvas co-star in this romantic drama about two World War II survivors who try to overcome the psychological scars inflicted on them by the conflict. Janos's (Darvas) pregnant wife was killed during the war. When Teres finds that she is pregnant, however, Janos cannot bring himself to accept responsibility of raising a child in the age of the atomic bomb, and he insists that Teres abort the child. Director Gyorgy Revesz uses New Wave influences such as jump cuts and freeze frames while combining the past and present to tell the story. ~ Dan Pavlides, Rovi
- Starring:
- Ilona Beres, Ivan Darvas, (more)
- 1963
Naday (Lajos Basti) is a middle-aged writer who falls for a young Jewish girl in this fleeting romantic drama. He allows the woman to use his daughter's identity to save her from being captured by the Nazis. The daughter is sought for helping the Jews in the underground movement, and the Jewish girl allows herself to be captured to save the writer and his daughter. The story is told in flashback form as the writer still brands himself a coward 20 years after the end of the war. ~ Dan Pavlides, Rovi
- Starring:
- Lajos Basti, Erika Szegedi, (more)
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