Dezső Garas

Dezső Garas

Birthday: 1934-12-09

Place of Birth: Budapest, Hungary

Biography: Dezső Garas (9 September 1934 – 30 December 2011) was a Hungarian actor, who appeared in over 145 films and television shows since 1956. He starred in the 1993 film Whoops, which was entered into the 43rd Berlin International Film Festival. Garas died in Budapest on 30 December 2011, aged 77, following a long illness. Description above from the Wikipedia article Dezső Garas, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Movies

Jacob the Liar
Jacob the Liar

A Jewish ghetto in the east of Europe, 1944. By coincidence, Jakob Heym eavesdrops on a German radio...

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Chacho Rom
Chacho Rom

A gypsy apothecary-violinist befriends a Hapsburg prince after saving his life during the disastrous...

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The Pregnant Papa
The Pregnant Papa

In the small village of Rátót, every male is called Béla. When a woman gives birth to her child, she...

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Scorpio Eats Gemini for Breakfast
Scorpio Eats Gemini for Breakfast

This is a story of a man who wants to grasp and hold his beloved one by him and a woman who insists ...

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Abigél
Abigél

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Automärchen
Automärchen

This quirky episodic comedy weaves together three plotlines centered around the employees of a car g...

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Pesti erkölcsök
Pesti erkölcsök

Ferenc Molnár's cartoons, published in various newspapers in the 1920s and 1930s, were not originall...

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Tök az adu
Tök az adu

A barber goes for a walk on an average Sunday morning, and end up winning an other guy's wife on car...

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A helyseg kalapacsa
A helyseg kalapacsa

13 March 1965 (Hungary)...

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Bolondgombák
Bolondgombák

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Az OP-ART kalap
Az OP-ART kalap

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Deliver Us from Evil
Deliver Us from Evil

Winter of 1944, the last days of the war. When the roads and houses ceased to exist and the bottom o...

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Before the Bat's Flight Is Done
Before the Bat's Flight Is Done

A divorced middle-aged woman takes home an ardent suitor, only to discover that he prefers her teena...

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Football of the Good Old Days
Football of the Good Old Days

The film is set in Budapest, 1924. Laundryman Ede Minarik's only passion is football. His dream is t...

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Salamon & Stock Show
Salamon & Stock Show

"Ripacsok" is a great movie with great soundtrack, acting, cinematography, direction, etc. The world...

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Banana Skin Waltz
Banana Skin Waltz

A typist girl who is under the influence of nervous breakdown walks out to the street stark naked fr...

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The Philadelphia Attraction
The Philadelphia Attraction

As a last chance in his career, the young acrobat with a broken leg, Sajek Oszkár, attempts to obtai...

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Whooping Cough
Whooping Cough

The story of 10-year-old boy and his family against the backdrop of the bloody events of 1956, in Bu...

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Daniel Takes a Train
Daniel Takes a Train

In December 1956 there is a chaotic situation in Hungary. The revolution is put down by the Soviet a...

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Two Half-Times in Hell
Two Half-Times in Hell

To celebrate Hitler's birthday, a soccer match is organised between the Germans and a group of Hunga...

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Le a fejjel!
Le a fejjel!

When the court astrologer warns the king that the stars predict his imminent murder, the terrified m...

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Lily Boy
Lily Boy

Set in the "Golden Era" of the wandering Hungarian theatre troupes. Mariska and Liliomfi fall in lov...

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Másfél millió
Másfél millió

Mihai Toth worked for forty years as a watchman in a timber warehouse. On his last watch, there was ...

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The Bridgeman
The Bridgeman

This epic story takes place between 1820 and 1860 during the Habsburg Monarchy, and portrays the lif...

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Forward!
Forward!

The story setup in the late Communist era. Two school boys are best friends. One's Father is a might...

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Summer Clouds
Summer Clouds

The twenty-year-old Gida, having just survived his first amorous disappointment, falls for Katinka, ...

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7 kérdés a szerelemről (és 3 alkérdés)
7 kérdés a szerelemről (és 3 alkérdés)

Seven stories about love and women....

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The Murderer is in the House
The Murderer is in the House

A murder has been committed in a block of flats in Pest. Almost all the dwellers of the building beh...

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The Long Shadow
The Long Shadow

Upon his father's death, a Hungarian stage actor travels to Israel for the funeral and meets his ste...

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Daughter of Darkness
Daughter of Darkness

An atmospheric, sub-hallucinogenic venture into the world of the unknown. The enigma facing a young ...

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Mascot
Mascot

The parents of Kabala (Lucky Charm) and Facsiga (Wooden Top) are divorced. Kabala, an adolescent gir...

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Charmers
Charmers

This light comedy with grotesque elements tells the story of M, the young and beautiful model mother...

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A Long Weekend in Pest and Buda
A Long Weekend in Pest and Buda

Iván is living in exile from Hungary when he receives word that an old flame is ill. His return to B...

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A Houseful of Bliss
A Houseful of Bliss

A comedy about the dwellers of a newly handed-over building. The sullen doctor Birkás is concerned t...

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Walking to Heaven
Walking to Heaven

If there has ever been pure and undestroyable love, this is it. That is how Imre and Vera feel. The ...

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Faithful for Nothing
Faithful for Nothing

Eve, the old professor zsongják beautiful wife surrounded by colleagues. When the professor's going ...

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A Mad Night
A Mad Night

The grotesque comedy with crime elements takes place in a grocery store....

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Miss Arizona
Miss Arizona

Story of the owners (Mastroianni and Schygulla) of a fancy nightclub in Budapest before and during W...

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A tranzitutas
A tranzitutas

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A protektor
A protektor

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My Father's Happy Years
My Father's Happy Years

Director Sandor Simo based this film on his recollections of a period in his father's life just afte...

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My First Two Hundred Years
My First Two Hundred Years

Divided into two different halves separated by mood and subject matter, this is an uneven drama abou...

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The Car
The Car

This sour satire records how narrow-minded, perishable and prejudiced human relations are. Lili, an ...

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The Phantom on Horseback
The Phantom on Horseback

News spreads like wildfire through the streets of Lubló: the ghost of recently deceased Mihály Kaszp...

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Hasty Marriage
Hasty Marriage

The protagonists of a comic Romeo and Juliet story full of gags are two widowed pensioners. Nádor an...

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The Flying Suitcase
The Flying Suitcase

The actress is always lonely, she has nobody to love. She adopts a young boy from the orphanage, who...

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Noah's Ark
Noah's Ark

In Budapest’s Sixth District stands the “Noah’s Ark”, a “dirty-beautiful” tenement housing thirteen ...

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Mills of Hell
Mills of Hell

Janos Flandera (Frigyes Funtek) is a student who is kept by an older woman in this depressing drama....

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Krebsz, the God
Krebsz, the God

The protagonist of this farce is the enthusiastic, bald, spectacled Krebsz, an employee at the Prime...

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A Strange Role
A Strange Role

After the breakup of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, a young Hungarian, wanted by the police for politi...

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Storm and Sorrow
Storm and Sorrow

In 1974, mountain climber Molly Higgins (Lori Singer) begins her ascent of Lenin Peak, located in th...

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Leave Robinson Alone
Leave Robinson Alone

Defoe, lacking fantasy of his own takes home the drunkard sailor from the pub and lets him tell his ...

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The Smugglers
The Smugglers

In the thirties, the poor living by the Romanian-Hungarian border were forced to smuggle if they wan...

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Gasoline Damage
Gasoline Damage

"Are you looking to buy a car? Not sure which one to buy? Clueless? We can solve all your problems. ...

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Tale on the 12 Points
Tale on the 12 Points

The flat of Doctor Bartha is wetting, the Communal Management Enterprise does not act, the doctor an...

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The Football Star
The Football Star

Cabinet crisis threatens in Futbólia, due to a series of lost matches. The head of state charges adm...

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Anton the Magician
Anton the Magician

A flamboyant comedy about love, work and money—revealing that the "planned" economy produced some un...

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Miért beszél annyit Mrs. Piper?
Miért beszél annyit Mrs. Piper?

"Good evening... I'd like to report a murder... Where do I live? In the basement... but I'm not ther...

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Mocorgó
Mocorgó

Mocorgó, the well-meaning worker boy, is a tough guy. In his 40s he is still a mechanic's apprentice...

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Világjobbítók
Világjobbítók

Librarian Géza Kriston is fired from his job after 20 years of work, but he refuses to leave the lib...

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A Bus Does Not Stop
A Bus Does Not Stop

A young woman on board of a bus notices that her watch has been stolen. The ticket collector keeps e...

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Lady-Killer in Trouble
Lady-Killer in Trouble

Captain Kovács investigates the case of a taxi driver who was knocked down and later he disappeared ...

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Esther and the Men
Esther and the Men

Small town girl Eszter adores her husband, Zoltán. He doesn't know Zoltán is having an affair with A...

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The Three Sisters
The Three Sisters

The sisters have been living in a Soviet barracks in Hungary for eleven years. They long to go to Mo...

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Tales of a Long Journey
Tales of a Long Journey

On the crowded train, the workers entertain each other by telling stories....

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Peter and Paul
Peter and Paul

The subject-matter of this comedy is age-old: that of the schizophrenic soul. Papa would have liked ...

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Just a Movie
Just a Movie

Péter tries to make a film on "Swan-Lake". At the weekend, shooting stops and the staff goes home. P...

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Kidnapping - Hungarian Style
Kidnapping - Hungarian Style

Three people skilfully kidnap the company director, who never takes the responsibility, takes sleepi...

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Dead or Alive
Dead or Alive

1852. Gáspár Noszlopy escapes from prison in order to capture the emperor, who is to visit Hungary, ...

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Just For Kicks
Just For Kicks

The life of Tamás, antiquities dealer, runs in a normal, everyday way, he is stealing, swindling, ch...

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No
No

The turnings of this satirical story are accentuated by the comments of the Director and the Author....

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Jaguar
Jaguar

The pseudo crime story honours the bohemian world at the beginning of the century....

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Well, Young Man?
Well, Young Man?

Andris is almost an adolescent boy. He would need the trust and encouragement of his family. But his...

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The Naked Diplomat
The Naked Diplomat

Félix, a somewhat clod-hopping young man, finds himself in the Grand Hotel of Little Lagonda, barefo...

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A Charming Family
A Charming Family

Mrs. Endrényi, an old woman in Old Buda learns that her house is going to be demolished and she is g...

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Legenda a nyúlpaprikásról
Legenda a nyúlpaprikásról

Gazsi, the protagonist of the novel, comes from the very edge of the society of the small village; h...

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Rab ember fiai
Rab ember fiai

Transylvania during the reign of the great prince Mihály Apafi I. The Turk asks Prince Apafi for an...

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Guarded Secrets
Guarded Secrets

Irma arrives at her 18th birthday in a reform school....

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Tizenötezer pengő jutalom
Tizenötezer pengő jutalom

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East Side Stories
East Side Stories

Hungarian tales around the end of the regime(s)....

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Raid
Raid

1932, Budapest. Gere János, an unemployed worker searching for employment in the capital, is organis...

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A Bird of Heaven
A Bird of Heaven

Panni, coming from a landless family of ten and Miska have loved each other for a long time. The pre...

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Vendéglátás
Vendéglátás

The hero of the film, János Kiss, a Kossuth Prize-winning cylindersmith, is about to be visited by a...

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Az ítélet
Az ítélet

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Csalással nem!
Csalással nem!

Grün Lili's parents have been collecting the dowry for years and now, with the help of a matchmaker,...

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A fürdőigazgató
A fürdőigazgató

The pride of this rural town is its profitable spa. Gedeon Pap, a director with a soaring imaginatio...

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Adventure in Gerolstein
Adventure in Gerolstein

In Gerolstein, those girls who were born the same year as the princess, cannot marry until she remai...

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Végül
Végül

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Apa győz
Apa győz

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Our Kid
Our Kid

Kölyök, this lovely, ham-handed young woman, has caused many a trouble already in the Dunaújváros Ir...

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Kaputt
Kaputt

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Lúdláb királynő
Lúdláb királynő

In 18th-century Paris, Jerome Coignard, an abbé who enters a Parisian soup kitchen called the Queen ...

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Így írtok ti
Így írtok ti

Karinthy's best-known and most popular work to date is So You Write. It was this work that made him ...

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Arany nyugágy
Arany nyugágy

Children asked God's help for quarreling parents. Cupid came for them....

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Incident ​at Vichy
Incident ​at Vichy

In the streets of Vichy, France, during World War II, the Germans apprehend nine men and a boy. Amon...

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April Alarm
April Alarm

1946. Borok Vince, party secretary, and Holló Döme, former landowner, arrive in Nagybökény the same ...

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