Ádám Szirtes
Acting
Biography
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Born: February 10, 1925
Place of Birth: Tápiósáp, Hungary [now Sülysáp, Hungary]
Known For
A Thorn under the Fingernail
From the intrigues and slander of the branch the painter Hódosi moves out to a hamlet at Hortobágy. He gets into conflict situation as well as he cannot endure that the political and economic elite of the neigbourhood would devastate the nature conservation area with hunting and (tax evading) goose husbandry.
Military Band
Merry soldiers arrive in the sleepy Transdanubian town. The cynical woman-hunter, Ferdinándy, learns to know doctor Barlay's beautiful wife at a carnival. She lives a happy married life, and the attentions of the lieutenant are all in vain.
I'll Appeal to the Minister
A comedy about the organisation of agricultural co-operatives. In the village of "Rendes", everybody has already entered the co-op, only the stubborn farmer, Bódog Balogh continues to resist. The leadership plays all their tricks and uses all their efforts, but all in vain.
The Palisade Street Kidnapping
The Kondor family lives on the outskirts of Budapest, the father a truck driver abroad. The subtenant wants to act like the head of the family one day, but one of the children thwarts his wedding plans.
Villa Negra
A past world is revived in the little cottage in the outskirts, next to the housing blocks under construction. Tamburás, the old hobo collects swerved youth: Diák, who desires freedom, the bus driver who is deprived of his license for having run over someone, and the rest. They have got an easy and unbound life there, with constant music, small thefts, occasional labour, tricks.
Merry-Go-Round
In a rural scenery in the throes of difficult changes lives a humble but promising young farmer girl called Mari Pataki. Her father forbids her from seeing the man she loves. The father, above all preoccupied by work on the fields and prospective wealth, decides to give his daughter in marriage to an old but rich man with whom he does business. Land marries land, he says. This seems to be the unyielding rule of the Hungarian peasantry. But the young lover is ready to stand up to any challenge to keep Maris love.
The Pregnant Papa
In the small village of Rátót, every male is called Béla. When a woman gives birth to her child, she names him Józsi...
The Sack
For the first time after 11 years, Simon, a young historian visits the village of his childhood at Balaton and Aunt Lina, his foster-mother. He gets upset by what he experiences there: the old woman's troublesome and vexing everydays, her quiet sadness. He is overwhelmed by his own memories, the death of his foster-father and by everything he was not aware of before, or he simply wanted to forget.
The Birth of Menyhért Simon
Every member of a small community in the snow-capped Bükk Mountains is trying to help the doctor get to István Simon forester's house where his wife is about to give birth to their first child.
Cold Days
Andras Kovacs' film, considered one of the most important Hungarian films of the 1960s, centers around four men who await trial for their involvement in the massacre of several thousand Jewish and Serbian people of Novi Sad in 1942. Each denies any responsibility, claiming that they were only following orders. The film is significant for its willingness to address the subject of Hungary's role in WWII, which was taboo at the time of the its release.
Filmography
as Óreg paraszt
as Czuczor
as Marcell
as Portoroki százados
as Major Blindics
as Kerekes kapitány
as I. Apafi Mihály fejedelem
as Harangozó
as Kozma
as Micsurin bácsi
as Kasos úr
as Linczényi György
as Veszelka Péter
as Miska
as Feola bácsi
as Balogh
as Lajos - üzletvezetõ
as Zsámboki
as Igazgató
as Svajda
as Corporal Szabó
as Ádám
as Rhédeyn's son
as Béni Kocsis
as Doktor
as Miniszter
as Kecskés János, igazgató
as Samu Kaál
as Szombati Károly
as Dobi, corporal
as captain Patkós
as Ferenc Szabó
as Jóska Nagy
as Sándor
as Major
as János Gere
as Miska
as János Jakab
as Varsa Imre
as Farkas Sándor
as Csikasz
as Pál Keszõce
as Lajos Danka
as Berci Majsa
as István Simon
as Orbán
as Hajdu Gyurka, peasant
as István Kádas
as Jóska Goz
as Jóska Varga
as SZIT-titkár
as Joseph "Joska" Goz