Judit Elek — Director (10)
Maybe Tomorrow (1980) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Majd holnap
director: Judit Elek actor: Meszléry Judit / Lukáts Andor
other title: 아마도 내일 / Peut-être demain
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 suffering from an endemic private life disorder, observable both among the urban middle and the rural lower classes. A descent into a relationship’s demise, more from the tired inertia of a country that has lost all direction and sense of purpose than any ill will.
On the Field of God in 1972-73 (1974) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Istenmezején 1972-73-ban
director: Judit Elek
other title: 헝가리의 한 마을 / Istenmezején 1972-73-ban
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 up, they have to decide between working and learning or marrying at the age of 15 and living up to their parents' expectations.
The Eighth Day of the Week (2006) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
A hét nyolcadik napja
director: Judit Elek actor: Hernádi Judit / Maja Komorowska
other title: A hét nyolcadik napja
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 ends up homeless at the Keleti train station. When she returns to her house, now full of homeless people moved in by the real estate mafia, an unexpected relationship brings hope into her life again.
How Long Does Man Live? (1967) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Meddig él az ember? I-II
director: Judit Elek
other title: 인간은 얼마나 오래 사는가? / Meddig él az ember? I-II
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 forced to retire. He leaves the factory life he has always known and goes home to his wife. In the second part, a young farm boy goes off to an industrial trade school to prepare for the very work the old man left behind. The old man loses his freedom by forced retirement while the young man loses his freedom by becoming a worker faced with a lifetime of factory work.
Awakening (1995) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Ébredés
director: Judit Elek actor: Fruzsina Eszes / Hernádi Judit
other title: 각성 / Ébredés
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 position of director-engineer. Kati is left alone in their flat, transformed into a place crowded with tenants. That is, not quite: in her imagination her mother is alive again, for she still needs her.
A Commonplace Story (1976) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Egyszerű történet
director: Judit Elek
other title: Egyszerű történet
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 and hopes?
The Trial of Martinovics and the Hungarian Jacobins (1980) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Vizsgálat Martinovics Ignác szászvári apát és társainak ügyében
director: Judit Elek actor: János Ács / Fodor Tamás
other title: Vizsgálat Martinovics Ignác szászvári apát és társainak ügyében
For this austere, clear and sharp telefeature, Judit Elek focused on the last months of Martinovics’ life: his interrogation by the Austrians, the examining Magistrate Schilling in particular, shown as a battle of wits as well as delusions on both sides. Elek had wanted to make this film in the early 1970s, but wasn’t allowed to. When she finally got the chance, the reactions were predictable, as the parallels with recent Hungarian history were simply too obvious for officialdom not to feel anxious. History may not repeat itself, but the variations look eerily similar.
Elie Wiesel Goes Home (1997) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Mondani a mondhatatlant: Elie Wiesel üzenete
other title: Mondani a mondhatatlant: Elie Wiesel üzenete
A documentary chronicling the adolescent years of Elie Wiesel and the history of his sufferings. Eliezer was fifteen when Fascism brutally altered his life forever. Fifty years later, he returns to Sighetu Marmatiei, the town where he was born, to walk the painful road of remembrance - but is it possible to speak of the unspeakable? Or does Auschwitz lie beyond the capacity of any human language - the place where words and stories run out?
Maria's Day (1984) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Mária-nap
director: Judit Elek actor: Edit Handel / Igó Éva
other title: 마리아의 날 / Le Jour de Maria
In 1866, the Szendrey family gathers for the name-day of Júlia’s sister, Mária, but the event dissolves into bitter grievances and the physical decline of the household. As the dying widow of the poet Sándor Petőfi, Júlia struggles with a failed second marriage while Mária grapples with jealousy over her own husband’s love for Júlia. The family’s fragile unity finally shatters under the suffocating weight of Sándor’s heroic legacy and the pervasive shadow of illnesses.
The Lady from Constantinople (1969) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Sziget a szárazföldön
director: Judit Elek actor: Manyi Kiss / Éva Almási
other title: 콘스탄티노플에서 온 여인 / Insel auf dem Festland
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, decides to exchange her two-room apartment for a smaller one. For a little while her everyday life is changed. She meets and entertains new people every day.