Sándor Zsótér
Acting
Biography
Sándor Zsótér was born on June 20, 1961 in Budapest, Hungary. He is an actor and writer, known for White God (2014), El hijo de Saúl (2015) and Isteni müszak (2013).
Born: June 20, 1961
Place of Birth: Budapest, Hungarian People's Republic [now Hungary]
Known For
Girls
Two teenage girls murder a taxi-driver. A portrait of a generation for which sex has a whole different meaning.
Son of Saul
In the horror of 1944 Auschwitz, a prisoner forced to burn the corpses of his own people finds moral survival trying to save from the flames the body of a boy he takes for his son, seeking to give him a proper Jewish burial.
Rothschild's Violin
1938: Shostakovich encourages his pupil Fleischmann to write an opera based on the Chekhov story 'Rothschild's violin'. Fleischmann is killed during the siege of Leningrad. Shostakovich completes the orchestration, but in 1948 is advised to suppress the opera, during Stalin's campaign against "rootless cosmopolitans". Jewish motifs enter Shostakovich's own work.
Heavenly Shift
Death does not select, man does. Set in Budapest, Heavenly Shift offers an eerie insight into the everyday lives of a rather extraordinary ambulance crew. The films main character is Milan, a young refugee from the Balkan War, who joins a team of paramedics but inadvertently ends up involved in the funeral business in order to finance his fiancee s rescue from the hostilities.
White God
13 year old Lili fights to protect her dog Hagen, and is devastated when her father sets Hagen free on the streets. Still innocently believing love can conquer any difficulty, Lili sets out to save her dog. Failing in his desperate efforts to find his beloved owner, Hagen joins a canine revolt leading a revolution against their human abusers.
The Whiskey Bandit
Between 1993 and 1999, one man robbed 29 financial institutions in Budapest. Banks, post offices and even travel agencies fell victim to his crime spree. The police had no leads and no hope of finding him during his six-year stint. The only clue left behind at the crime scenes was the distinct aroma of whiskey. The media christened him the “Whiskey Bandit”. Never physically harming anyone, many began to eagerly follow his escapades through the media. A Transylvanian immigrant, who also happened to be a goalie for one of the city's largest hockey teams, named Attila Ambrus, was finally identified as the “Whiskey Bandit”. The police had finally captured him... or so they thought.
Sunset
In 1913, an orphaned young woman arrives in Budapest to take up employment as a milliner at the hat store that belonged to her late parents but becomes mired in a search for a brother she had never known of.
Miss Arizona
Story of the owners (Mastroianni and Schygulla) of a fancy nightclub in Budapest before and during WWII.
Daniel Takes a Train
In December 1956 there is a chaotic situation in Hungary. The revolution is put down by the Soviet army. People leave the country in large numbers for fear of revenge. A young soldier (György Angeli) who also took a part in the revolution, takes a train to Vienna together with his friend (Dániel Szerencsés). Written by Tamas Patrovics
Alder
A coin always has two sides... Károly and Zsolt are best friends, rivals, and mortal enemies at the same time- so they're inseparable parts of each other's lives. After graduating from college, they grow apart but after more than two decades, their paths are crossing once again. The jobless and desperate Zsolt appears on the doorstep of Károly, who is struggling with his mid-life crisis. Their unexpected reunion sets up a chain of events that could potentially destroy not just them but everything the two men hold dear.
Filmography
as Endre
as Apa
as Doctor Herz
as Kata apja
as Dr. Miklós Nyiszli
as Dániel
as Vinnai
as István - Hanna fia
as Self
as The Prince
as Rothschild
as Feri
as Ádám
as András
as Gyuri Angeli
as Scientist