Judit Elek Movies
- 1976
Nobody's Daughter
Nobody's Daughter6.11976HD
An orphan girl suffers abuse from her adoptive parents.
- 1996
Elie Wiesel Goes Home
Elie Wiesel Goes Home01996HD
A documentary chronicling the adolescent years of Elie Wiesel and the history of his sufferings. Eliezer was fifteen when Fascism brutally altered...
- 1984
Maria's Day
Maria's Day11984HD
The Hungarian Maria's Day is set in that most fateful of years, 1848. The incredible changes and reverses in European politics and culture exert a...
- 2006
The Eighth Day of the Week
The Eighth Day of the Week72006HD
After her husband's death, Hanna Szendroy, the former primadonna, is caught in the claws of the real estate mafia. She looses her lavish home and...
- 1990
Memories of a River
Memories of a River5.51990HD
In the 19th century Austro-Hungarian Empire, David Hersko, a Jewish shepherd, witnesses the attack of a young girl. His home is burned down and he...
- 1995
Awakening
Awakening01995HD
1952, Budapest. Kati is thirteen years old when her mother dies. Her father works as a founder at the Miskolc foundry, deprived of his former...
- 2018
After All the Dead Sing Again...
After All the Dead Sing Again...02018HD
The film sums up the results of a massive endeavour in historical restoration and reconstruction, then recording Elek became engaged with: that of...
- 1969
The Lady from Constantinople
The Lady from Constantinople5.51969HD
Persuaded by the janitor's wife, a lively, but lonesome old woman, who is only attached to the world through her cherished objects and memories,...
- 1980
Maybe Tomorrow
Maybe Tomorrow11980HD
A couple in love, but sadly married to other partners. What is to be done? A diagnosis of a comfortable but profoundly incapable society, a Hungary...
- 2010
Negative history of Hungarian cinema
Negative history of Hungarian cinema02010HD
Reconstructions of unrealized Hungarian films in cooperation with the greatest Hungarian film directors.
- 1967
How Long Does Man Live?
How Long Does Man Live?01967HD
This two-part film examines the plight of the working class. In part one, an elderly factory laborer goes to work in his last days before he is...
- 1967
Inhabitants of Castles in Hungary in 1966
Inhabitants of Castles in Hungary in 196601967HD
A look at the present use of several Hungarian castles whose former owners in some cases are still around, but kept out of sight for being relics of...
- 1976
A Commonplace Story
A Commonplace Story01976HD
The second part of Judit Eleks long-term documentary about two girls and their lives in a small Hungarian village. What has become of their dreams...
- 1980
The Trial of Martinovics and the Hungarian Jacobins
The Trial of Martinovics and the Hungarian Jacobins01980HD
For this austere, clear and sharp telefeature, Judit Elek focused on the last months of Martinovics’ life: his interrogation by the Austrians,...
- 2011
Retrace
Retrace02011HD
Katherine, who survived the Holocaust at age seven, visits her fatherland of Transylvania, Romania for the first time departing from Sweden with her...
- 1963
Encounter
Encounter61963HD
A man, a woman, an afternoon, a city, and an unspoken, hopeful desire to find love by way of the personal ads. A milestone of Hungarian cinema, Elek...
- 1974
Tamás Cseh: The First Photo
Tamás Cseh: The First Photo01974HD
In March 1974, Hungarian television recorded a concert by Tamás Cseh and Ad Libitum as a live concert for two days (16-17) in the largest...
- 1996
A Free Man – The Life of Ernő Fisch
A Free Man – The Life of Ernő Fisch01996HD
Erno Fisch, the film's protagonist, was born in 1903 in Sighet, the same small town as his world-famous compatriot, Elie Wiesel. Erno Fisch was the...
- 1970
We Will Meet in 1972 – In Dark and in Light
We Will Meet in 1972 – In Dark and in Light01970HD
A television documentary about miners: the reality of their work versus how it is made to look and sound in the public sphere.
- 1974
On the Field of God in 1972-73
On the Field of God in 1972-7301974HD
The first part of Judit Eleks long-term documentary portraits the lives of two girls in a small Hungarian village: Marika and Ilonka. As they grow...