Zoltán Várkonyi

Zoltán Várkonyi

Birthday: 1912-05-13

Place of Birth: Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]

Biography: Zoltán Várkonyi was a Hungarian actor and film director. In 1961, he was a member of the jury at the 2nd Moscow International Film Festival. Four years later, he was a member of the jury at the 4th Moscow International Film Festival.

Movies

A Hungarian Nabob
A Hungarian Nabob

On the novel by Mór Jókai. The first half of the XVIII century. Several decades of life of a noble f...

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Sons of the Stone-Hearted Man
Sons of the Stone-Hearted Man

Based on the novel of Mór Jókai. During the Hungarian independence war 1848-49 mother and her three ...

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My Daughter Is Different
My Daughter Is Different

Gitta is 20 years old, a girl with modern attitudes, who is courted by Ferenc Fekete. Not particular...

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A Hungarian Nabob 2: Karpathy Zoltan
A Hungarian Nabob 2: Karpathy Zoltan

On the novel by Mór Jókai. The first half of the XVIII century. Several decades of life of a noble f...

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Black Diamonds
Black Diamonds

Iván Berend works with all his skills in the coal mine he inherited from his father. Fate brings him...

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The School-Mistress
The School-Mistress

The protagonist of the story is Flora, a teacher who wants to teach in the village, in accordance wi...

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Light behind the Shutter
Light behind the Shutter

Torday Géza, a new engineer arrives at the ammunition factory disguised as if manufacturing camping ...

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Darkness in Daytime
Darkness in Daytime

In 1963 in Tihany, somebody addresses the writer Gábor Náday. He is reminded of a night drive in 194...

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Fourteen Lives
Fourteen Lives

September 1952 in a mine in Northern-Hungary after an explosion water breaks in from the neighbourin...

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Boys From the Square
Boys From the Square

The story takes place during World War II and presents the illegal movement from inside. Some tough ...

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Villa Negra
Villa Negra

A past world is revived in the little cottage in the outskirts, next to the housing blocks under con...

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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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Story of My Foolishness
Story of My Foolishness

The celebrated actor considers his wife a nitwits actress of a mediocre talent. But an influential p...

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The Dream Car
The Dream Car

A light hearted comedy, from the thirties. One of the most successful ones in Hungary. The ever ench...

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Mermaid on the Signet Ring
Mermaid on the Signet Ring

The Gestapo is preparing for the liquidation of the Hungarian anti-Nazi resistance movement....

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Iron Flower
Iron Flower

During the worldwide Depression of the 1930s, a young shopgirl is in love with a man of her own fina...

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Summer of Old Times
Summer of Old Times

The story unfolds using the Lajtai operetta The Old Summer. The son of landowner János Pataki comes ...

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Haber's Photo Shop
Haber's Photo Shop

A priest who has been set free from prison recently joins a spy organization....

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The Gold Watch
The Gold Watch

In the story, the golden watch is a metaphor: life of an individual for whom honesty is of real valu...

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The Crucial Moment
The Crucial Moment

Kulinyi, the theatre secretary in Budapest, becomes the director of a rural theatre. He takes with h...

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Historical Private Affairs
Historical Private Affairs

A light comedy of four love-stories. Mary's search for happiness has always been influenced by histo...

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Two Times Two
Two Times Two

The film is the simultaneous portrayal of the wedding ceremony and honeymoon of a city and a country...

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The Last Adventure of Don Juan
The Last Adventure of Don Juan

Don Juan, the seducer, is cursed by the governor of Seville: he can only live until a woman rejects ...

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The Belated Letter
The Belated Letter

The outbreak of war ends the love of Mária and Endre. Mária is still expecting the return of Endre, ...

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All Beginnings Are Hard
All Beginnings Are Hard

The film is a cabaret style, satirical montage of the political events and everydays...

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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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Tüz
Tüz

The first Hungarian spy film ripped the mask off those ministerial officials who, having sold out to...

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Erkel
Erkel

We have linguists, we have literary men, we have newspapers, actors, musicians, but we have no natio...

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Nyugati övezet
Nyugati övezet

Prof. Laurent Akush from the Institute of Geophysics is working on a device that can be used to loca...

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The Day of Wrath
The Day of Wrath

In May 1919 in a small rural town beside Salgótarján the local high society wants to get the power b...

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The Sea has Risen
The Sea has Risen

March 15, 1848; the revolution breaks out in the town of Pest. Yet at café Pilvax, in among he revol...

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Pár lépés a határ
Pár lépés a határ

Based on the novel of the same name by Lajos Meszterházy about the escape from prison of two communi...

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Három csillag
Három csillag

The film consists of 3 novellas. 1. On the eve of the Soviet advance into Hungary, workers at a mili...

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