Mari Szemes
Acting
Biography
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Born: May 7, 1932
Place of Birth: Sastin, Czechoslovakia [now Slovakia]
Known For
Yesterday
October, 1956. Colonel lieutenant Szabó sends a platoon with the mission of calming the people demonstrating in the town. The platoon is lined up under the command of Lieutenant Csendes and the soldiers aim at the demonstrators. Szusza Kis changes sides, and Csendes is unable to shoot at his childhood mate. They withdraw.
Son of the White Mare
A horse goddess gives birth to three powerful brothers who set out into the Underworld to save three princesses from three evil dragons and reclaim their ancestors' lost kingdom.
Diary for My Loves
A continuation of "Diary for My Children," the film picks up in 1950, when Juli, the diarist, is 18 and determined to become a movie director.
The Lost Generation
The engineer Ambrus has been suspended in his job because he publicly called the attention of the customers to a construction mistake of some goods designed to be exported. His immediate boss learns the news on a business trip to Paris. He meets his old friend Lendvay, an emigrant from Hungary, and his French wife in a cellar bar. After their talk Benkő starts seeing things in a different perspective. When he returns home, he decides to take a stand for Ambrus against Ferenczi, the general director, despite his wife's and the old director's advice.
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.
In the Prime of Life
The film describes the general situation and conditions of the middle-aged intellectuals.
Diary for My Children
After having lost her parents, young Juli returns from the Soviet Union to her native Budapest. Scarred by the wounds of the past, the ghost of Stalin’s oppression haunts her as she reunites with her aunt and adoptive mother Magda.
Binding Sentiments
Edit, who became the wife of a politician out of a simple peasant girl, suddenly becomes a widow as a result of an accident. She never loved her husband. She lives a wealthy and lonely life amidst false friends, facing one of the last alternatives of her life, i.e. having to face her past in the hope of an independent new beginning.
Goose Boy
A young peasant boy stands up to tyranny, aided by his trusting friend- a goose.
Riddance
Jutka, a young woman who works in a factory, falls in love with Andras, a university student. She pretends to be a student, to him and to his parents, and begins to live a lie. Finally she rebels against Andras and his demands and the social conventions that forced her to live a lie.
Filmography
as Garáné
as Grandmother
as András édesanyja
as Iboly
as Grandmother
as Fehérló / Hókirálnyö (voice)
as Az okos Zebegényi felesége
as Jutka anyja
as Fogadósné
as Hédi
as Manci
as Ambrusné, Anna
as Anna, Szemerák felesége
as Terus
as Milena
as Actress
as Piri
as Anci Kiss
as Zsuzsi Körmendi
as Csutak's mother
as Rózsi
as Huszárné
as cselédlány
as Olivia
as Rózsi, Luckó's bride
as Julis