György Cserhalmi
8 titles
Filmography
8 results

Johnny Corncob
(1973)Based on the 19th century Hungarian eponymous poem, the story about a brave shepherd who joins the Hussars, rescues France and returns home to find his beloved sweetheart dead.

Son of the White Mare
(1981)The story’s main character is Fehérlófia, who is a man with superhuman power. He is born as the third son of a horse. He listened to old tales, mostly about the Forefather and the end of his reign, caused by evil dragons.

Damnation
(1988)A dour loner, Karrer, attempts to steal back his estranged lover—a lounge singer in a funereal bar named Titanik—from her debt-addled husband. Karrer lures the husband into a smuggling scheme that will force him to leave town, but these well-laid plans soon go awry…

Electra, My Love
(1974)Electra, still burning with hatred towards her father’s murderer, attempts to rouse an apathetic population against the rule of this usurper.

Jupiter's Moon
(2017)A Syrian man, discovered to have powers of levitation after he’s shot and thrown into a refugee camp, becomes a pawn in a corrupt doctor’s scheme.

Red Psalm
(1972)Winner of the best director prize at Cannes in 1972 and widely considered to be the greatest Hungarian film of the 70s, Miklós Jancsó's masterpiece set on the Hungarian plains of the 1890s follows a group of farm workers who go on a strike, but are met with soldiers on horseback as they face the reality of revolt, oppression, morality, and violence.

Mephisto
(1981)Winner of Best Foreign Language Film at the 1982 Academy Awards and nominated for a Palme d'Or at Cannes, Istvan Szabo's "Mephisto" follows a passionate, but struggling actor (Klaus Maria Brandauer) who remains in Germany during the Nazi regime and reaps the rewards of this Faustian pact by finally achieving the stardom he has long craved.

Just Drop Dead!
(2016)Tras la muerte de un conductor de tren, su familia y personajes de su pasado quieren conocer la verdadera identidad del hombre al que tanto amaban.