Zoltán Gera
Acting
Biography
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Born: August 19, 1923
Place of Birth: Szeged, Hungary
Known For
The Smugglers
In the thirties, the poor living by the Romanian-Hungarian border were forced to smuggle if they wanted to survive. Mihály, a Hungarian peasant, kills a border guard while fleeing. He is fed up with smuggling and wants to put an end to it, yet he needs money to get a job, so he embarks on another turn.
Brothers
Ernst Stadler is a successful, award-winning chef with his own gourmet restaurant. His older brother Ludwig is also a chef, but is currently in prison. Adrian, the youngest of the three, is a nurse and gay. When their mother dies, they travel together to the funeral in Saxony-Anhalt. There they find a clue about Wickerl's biological father. They track down Ernst's father in Hungary. He had once abandoned his pregnant mother. Adrian is not a brother in the biological sense; he was adopted by his mother as a foundling. Nevertheless, they come to the conclusion: "And the three of us are still brothers."
Two Half-Times in Hell
To celebrate Hitler's birthday, a soccer match is organised between the Germans and a group of Hungarian political prisoners, one of whom is a famous pre-war football star.
Citizen X
Based on the true story of a Russian serial killer who, over many years, claimed victim to over 50 people. His victims were mostly under the age of 17. In what was then a communists state, the police investigations were hampered by bureaucracy, incompetence and those in power. The story is told from the viewpoint of the detective in charge of the case.
Maigret
Based on the novels by Georges Simenon, Michael Gambon plays the eponymous detective from the Sûreté in this 1992 revival of the 1960s BBC drama series. Maigret is an intuitutive detective, who investigates his cases by watching and listening, getting to know everyone on his list of suspects until someone makes a slip or breaks down and confesses.
My Way Home
In the aftermath of World War II, a Hungarian teenager, captured by Soviet troops, forms an unlikely bond with a Russian soldier in a remote prison camp.
Return Ticket
Five old men and a kid are travelling in a train's cabin without purpose. They travel because it's free and they don't have another place to stay. From their conversations we learn the tragedies of their lives. Also the hidden interlockings of their faith will out slowly.
Escape to Victory
A group of POWs in a German prison camp during World War II play the German National Soccer Team in this powerful film depicting the role of prisoners during wartime.
Il toro
After being fired from his bull breeding job without proper compensation, Franco steals a world-class bull from his former employer and smuggles it to Hungary, planning to sell it for a large sum of money.
The Inheritance
During the rising of nazism, Sylvia, a rich but sterile woman, needs an heir to inherit her father's money. So she bribes Irene, a Jewish girl, to have a child by her husband.
Filmography
as Ernő Teknőc (voice)
as Ernő Teknőc, the Messenger (voice)
as Szállodaportás
as Mr. Waltz
as Bela Orban
as Merchant
as Jackie Weiss
as Astrologer #1
as Man at Synagogue
as Concierge
as Praskovya
as Nebojis
as Nagypapa
as Overweight Noble
as Józsi bácsi
as Doctor
as Shoemaker
as Sándor
as Another Doctor
as Gömör
as Rabbi Rosner
as Folies Bergeres Producer
as Elderly Man
as Herr Engels
as Martin Weiss
as Bloch
as Nicolo
as Malev Officer
as King
as István - kárpitos
as Viktor
as Orpheum director
as Brajner
as Lemming
as Teknőc Ernő (voice)
as Sviatny
as Dr. Mikulik
as Balassa barátja
as Hadifogoly
as Journalist
as Tankó Sándor
as Dezsõ Kócs
as Újságíró
as Tekejátékos
as Novák
as karszalagos
as postman