Sándor Sára Movies

A documentary about Hungarian prisoners of war in the World War II

An action packed, brightly colored film depicting the adventures of a six-year-old boy attending school for the first time. He befriends a little...

The story of the film takes place in 1929 in a model prison providing a kind of reflection how society works out there. Udvardi, the weakling and...

Mihály, a retired foundryman has brought up his sons in a very disciplined and strict way, and as a result they have become a doctor, an...

The Christmas of 1944. The Pásztor family (father, mother, four daughters and a grandchild), are spending the holidays at their country farm....

Reconstructions of unrealized Hungarian films in cooperation with the greatest Hungarian film directors.

A group of students cope with the disappearance of their friend.

During WW II, a Hungarian child in a concentration camp is saved and raised by a Polish family. After 19 years, the young woman publishes a letter in...

This film constructs an anguished hymn to peace using pieces of movie newscasts, photographs, and monuments about those who have fallen in the Great...

Man and his environment.

The first signs of autumn are seen in a landscape along a river. Some villagers are stacking a bed of stone blocks on the river-bank to avoid more...

Sándor Sára's meditation on loneliness and the human condition.

This film shows the Romas' life in Hungary, the prejudices they are faced with when adapting themselves to society, and the Romas' ancient customs...

A group of plate-layers are packing the stone-bed under the rail with their pickaxes. They swing their picks in a coordinated, rhythmic way, thereby...

A documentary about the Gulag

A grey-haired man walks through the fields. Fatigued, but with the same tenacity he roams the roads, the pathways, the tracks every day, medical bag...

Documentary mini-series.

For his film Sára interviewed women who as young girls had endured difficult surroundings and constant denigration in the labor camps. The...

A five-episode cinema version of Chronicle(1982)

People who live on farms in seclusion far away from any civilization go to see a performance of Shakespeares Twelfth Night by the Universitas...