To be political without seeming to be political has been the Eastern European filmmaker's primary task (at least prior to the recent wave of reform there). With this allegorical children's story for ...

Hitting hard at bureaucracy and authoritarianism, A Hungarian Fairy Tale believes in the faith of a young boy, motherless at age 9, to find the father he never knew. It is a sadly touching story from ...

Bela Tarr’s “Werckmeister Harmonies” — a Hungarian fairy tale about a troubled village that goes mad when the circus comes to town — is a great, haunting film that chills you, changes you. It’s a ...

translates as ”It Happened, It Didn`t Happen.” This may not fit well on a marquee, but it does evoke the film`s subtle, insinuating blend of grim social realism and elevated fantasy. Gazdag, a ...

It is a tale about Prince Green, who gets to know the secret from the animals. With their help he finds the oak from which branches fairies are born. But the wicked sorceress interferes… ...

Shot in B&W, Gyula Gazdag's film follows the surreal and often comic quests of young Andris, an orphan searching for a father who doesn't exist, and Orban, a government clerk who's had enough of ...