Andor Lukats Movies

An athlete recalls his troubled youth while helping to coach a talented but headstrong youngster in this drama from Hungarian filmmaker Szabolcs Hajdu. Miklos Dongo (Miklos Zoltan Hajdu) is a world class gymnast who competed in the Olympics before taking on his current career as a performer with Cirque du Soleil. Miklos has been hired to help coach some contenders for the Canadian Olympic team, and finds himself working with Kyle Manjak (Kyle Shewfelt), an unusually talented young man whose mood swings make him difficult to work with. As Miklos tries to help Kyle focus his talents and come to terms with his demons, he finds himself frequently looking back on his own early career as a gymnast in Hungary -- his brutal coach Puma (Gheorghe Dinica), his domineering parents (Andor Lukats and Oana Pellea), and the grim regimen that led him to run away from home to join an acrobatics troupe. Coaching brings some of Miklos's personal issues back to the surface and he is confronted by the violent side of his nature while training Kyle. Miklos Zoltan Hajdu, who plays Miklos Dongo, is the brother of director Szabolcs Hajdu as well as an Olympic-class gymnast; he's played as a younger man by Orion Radies and Silas Radies. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

The incredible repression and paranoia of Stalin's regime in Russia was reflected elsewhere in the Iron Curtain countries of the 1950s. In this thrilling story, set in Hungary and based on screenwriter Geza Boszormenyi's own experiences, a young man is sent to a prison camp for the crime of accidentally engaging in conversation with a fugitive. Once he arrives at the camp, he is put to work doing heavy manual labor and is given a starvation diet, just like the other prisoners. He joins seven men who are determined to escape, is the only one who succeeds in doing so, and is also the only one of the seven to survive. He has memorized the names of hundreds of his fellow prisoners, and once he escapes to the West, reads them aloud over the air on Radio Free Europe. In this way, his father learns that he is still alive. The story is directed by the screenwriter's wife, Livia Gyarmathy. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide

This romantic thriller follows the exploits of a single mother who assists a handsome Ukranian refugee and finds nothing but trouble. Anna supports her 8-year old daughter by driving a cab. One day she observes an armed robbery at a service station. Both of the robbers are Ukranian refugees. One of them is Andrei whom Anna helps escape. Andrei claims to be a ballet dancer who came to Budapest to look for work. Anna takes him in; they become lovers. Soon he finds a job at a sleazy strip club, the Red Colibri. The club is owned by Ukrainians at least one of whom is a gangster. Anna becomes involved with the strippers and the club's owner and resident gangster. Trouble ensues as Anna gets more deeply involved. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

Beloved Hungarian actor and cabaret performer Róbert Koltai stars in this comedy as a basically clueless man with an insatiable appetite for women and an inescapable attraction to every get-rich-quick scheme he runs across. In the story, he is a salesman traveling to the countryside with his teenaged nephew on a vacation. He was supposed to supervise a much more respectable journey than the one that results. First, he discovers that there is a racetrack on the way to their destination. Then he decides that his nephew is ready to have his first sexual experience with a woman, and he arranges that. Somewhere he learns of a sure thing to bet on at the track, and before you know it, his nephew has learned more than he ever expected to about the facts of life while traveling with his goofy uncle. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide

This historical drama chronicles the struggle of Swedish businessman Raoul Wallenberg (Stella Skarsgard), as he fought valiantly to save the lives of the Jewish residents of Nazi-occupied Budapest. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide

It is never clear whether Frigyes is indifferent or just confused when, shortly after emigrating to New York City from Hungary, he leaves his family for the pleasures and gratifications of being a street bum. But as time goes by, it is clear that, if he wasn't confused to start with, he is now. A series of adventures with other drifters reach a dramatic conclusion when some thugs murder one of them, but Frigyes himself is rescued by his father-in-law. Despite the fact that his in-law is fresh off the boat, as it were, he is somehow able to track down the by-now stunned and hapless Frigyes amid the endless streets and avenues of the Big Apple. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide

In a talkative story that starts out as a romance but seems to head nowhere in particular, a young pilot finds himself without his lady love but saddled with a group of women (mother, sister, and ex-wife) who can make his life difficult. Janos (Peter Breznyik Berg) pilots a crop-duster, and when his enamorata leaves to return to France, he follows after her car in his plane. This gesture of true love winds up in an accident and the loss of Janos' license, plus a fine. So Janos goes to live with his mother who is currently carrying on a torrid affair with a younger man. Also on hand is his sister, who belongs to a group espousing love for everyone, and his ex-wife who espouses her love of the bottle. To make matters worse, his ex-wife decides to bring her lover home to live with all of them. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide

In this slapstick comedy, Robi (Andor Lucas) is married to a perfectly normal woman named Iren (Jadwiga Jankowska). However, his behavior is more like a child with Attention Deficit Disorder. He's a hyperactive adult who will jump into a fish tank and take a swim, or get up on the table during a formal dinner party. Before Iren totally loses her patience with her husband, her son's tutor suggests a solution for Robi's strange behavior. The question is, will it work? ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide

A man and woman with families of their own meet as lovers in an apartment for their romantic rendezvous. The two are content with their affair but do not wish to leave their respective families. When the man receives a house in the country from his late aunt, the couple wrestles with the idea of starting a life of their own, but they are paralyzed by uncertainty and loyalty to their families. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide