János Derzsi
Acting
Biography
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Born: April 20, 1954
Place of Birth: Nyírábrány, Hungary
Known For
Satantango
Inhabitants of a small village in Hungary deal with the effects of the fall of Communism. The town's source of revenue, a factory, has closed, and the locals, who include a doctor and three couples, await a cash payment offered in the wake of the shuttering. Irimias, a villager thought to be dead, returns and, unbeknownst to the locals, is a police informant. In a scheme, he persuades the villagers to form a commune with him.
Werckmeister Harmonies
A naive young man witnesses an escalation of violence in his small hometown following the arrival of a mysterious circus attraction.
A Priceless Day
Irén and Attila, a not-so-young couple, are in love. All they want is a flat of their own where they could live together. Unfortunately, Hungary in the 70s is no place for dreams.
The Turin Horse
A monumental windstorm and an abused horse's refusal to work or eat signal the beginning of the end for a poor farmer and his daughter.
The Hungarian Dressmaker
Ema & Death’s-Head deals with the precarious border between humanism and the protection of one’s own life in situations when one excludes the other. Marika Sándorfi is hiding a Jewish boy during the dramatic era of the First Slovak State on the Slovak-Hungarian border. Šimon Holan, the boy in hiding, has a special ability to survive thanks to dreaming and a child’s fantasy.
Kontroll
A tale about a strange young man, Bulcsú, and the fellow ticket inspectors on his team who work aboard the subterranean Budapest Metro. A tale about racing along the tracks, and about a mysterious serial killer. And a tale about love.
Twilight
In the dense and murky woodlands of provincial Hungary, the search for a child murderer drags a once-respected detective into an all-consuming obsession enshrouded by irresolution and despair, even long after he has been taken off the case. What emerges is not a crime story, but a harrowing venture through the darkness of the human soul.
The Man from London
A switchman at a seaside railway witnesses a murder but does not report it after he finds a suitcase full of money at the scene of the crime.
Autumn Almanac
In this dense setting, the inhabitants of a large, claustrophobic apartment reveal their darkest secrets, fears, obsessions and hostilities.
Passion
A woman and her lover plot to kill her older husband.
Filmography
as Mihály
as Self
as Man
as Caretaker
as Homeless man
as Himself
as János
as Ohlsdorfer
as Father
as Hajléktalan
as Brown
as Vidra
as Juli apja
as Imre
as Count Falussy
as Sándor Tüdő
as Hozsó
as Utolsó utas
as Taxisofőr
as Man In The Broad-Cloth Coat
as A férfi
as Kráner
as K.
as Attila
as menekülő ember
as Arne
as Factory manager
as János, Hédi fia
as A katonatiszt
as Sógor
as Zoltán Lovászi
as Gábor, Irén férje
as Gelencsér Jóska