Gábor Zsigmond Papp — Director (5)
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Hungarian Retro (2010)
Magyar retró IMDb TMDB
Gábor Zsigmond Papp actor: Gábor Máté / Péter Vallai
other title: Magyar retró
A feature length, lively - montage style - documentary, capturing the essence of what life was like in socialist Hungary - dubbed the "The most cheerful barrack" back then - using contemporary music, interviews, adverts and news footages.
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Hungarian Retro 2. (2014)
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Gábor Zsigmond Papp
other title: Magyar retró 2.
A feature length, lively - montage style - documentary, capturing the essence of what life was like in socialist Hungary - dubbed the "The most cheerful barrack" back then - using contemporary music, interviews, adverts and news footages.
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The Life of an Agent (2004)
Az ügynök élete Douban
Gábor Zsigmond Papp actor: András Dési / Róbert Kardos
other title: 特工的生活 / Az ügynök élete
Gabor Zsigmond Papp's darkly ironic historical documentary The Life of an Agent stitches together a compilation of instructional films used in Cold War Hungary to train secret government police. Papp uses much screen time to draw striking aesthetic, stylistic and thematic parallels between those works and the Z-grade, cliché-ridden fictional thrillers of the day, thus demonstrating how the Hungarian government modeled its propaganda on the conventions of popular cinema. The films at hand provide police trainees with suggestions on such procedures as: leading home raids, conducting rudimentary surveillance and planting moles. -- NY Times