Agi Margittay Movies

Anna (Anna Ráczkevei) has a loving husband and three healthy, cheerful children. It has taken a lot of luck and a lot of work to get to this point, but she is satisfied. Who would have imagined that, after becoming pregnant and marrying at sixteen, things would have turned out so well. However, Anna is far from pleased to discover that she has become pregnant for a fourth time. Enough is enough. As Anna tries to cope with her feelings about this new development and to discern what she can do about it, she is overwhelmed with memories of the past and a strange fantasy about an ever-present saxaphone player. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi

Maruschka Detmers stars as Hannah Senesh, a real-life Hungarian Jew who became a martyr to the cause of freedom during WW II. Though safely ensconced in Palestine at the outbreak of the war, Hannah volunteers to venture behind enemy lines in Europe on a life-or-death mission. Unfortunately, she is captured, undergoing unspeakable tortures before the Germans are finished with her. The script, based on Hannah's diaries (as edited by Yoel Palgi), surprisingly downplays heroics in favor of sensationalism; the prison scenes could just as well have been lifted from a Linda Blair "babes behind bars" picture. Even so, Detmers is excellent in the title role, while Ellen Burstyn is likewise superb as Hannah's mother. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

The young Hungarian Mari (Mari Kiss) is pining for her lover who lives in Sweden. Her girlfriends, in a moment of merry inspiration, convince a visiting Finnish bachelor, Pekka (Tom Wentzel) to officially wed Mari in Finland - on a temporary basis - so she will be closer to her lover. From there, she will take it on her own. The girlfriends go with Mari to Finland, on a lark and a three-week visa, to enjoy the wedding. Meanwhile, Pekka starts to turn against the whole idea while Mari finds that the attraction to her lover is dying off just as an attraction to Pekka begins to grow. The wedding takes place all the same, leaving Mari confused and upset, as Pekka clearly has no interest in her, period. As the story reaches toward its ending, it has added significance for all Hungarians. In 1981, the law in Hungary stipulated that any Hungarian marrying a foreigner outside of the country would have to remain married for five years before being allowed back home. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi

Hungarian-born Laszlo Szabo returned to his native country to play the part of Dibusz in this comedy. When the residents of a large old house learn that it is to be torn down and that they will be relocated elsewhere, an intense game gets underway. As is usual in such instances, the residents will be given new apartments commensurate in size with their old ones. Dibusz sees this as an opportunity to temporarily enlarge his "assigned" space in the condemned building. He wants to be reassigned to an apartment which is larger than his current bathless one-room space. He and a neighbor cooperate to break down the walls that separate their spaces from that of an old woman who just died after a brief tussle. Still not satisfied, he tries to marry one of two spinster women who live together but is rejected. In the course of the film, he has intense encounters of one sort or another with anyone who might be of help to him in his quest. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi

This film is about film director Peter Bona, who makes films on a shoestring. To get his next production off the ground, he needs 10,000 Hungarian florins. He puts the touch on a number of people, with no success. However, he has an aunt, a hero of socialism, who is in town for the dedication of a street in her husband's name. He visits her apartment, and steals the money. Something about her captures his imagination, and he sneaks back and returns the money before it is missed. As he learns more about her, Peter's fascination with his aunt grows. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi