Gábor Zsigmond Papp

Honvéd retró

A feature length, lively - montage style - documentary, capturing the essence of what life was like in socialist Hungary's conscript army, using contemporary videos.

Hungarian Retro 2.

A feature length, lively - montage style - documentary, capturing the essence of what life was like in socialist Hungary - dubbed the "The most cheerful barrack" back then - using contemporary music, interviews, adverts and news footages.

East-West Passage

In the summer of 1989 tens of thousands of tourists from communist East Germany came to Hungary. They were deeply disillusioned because they felt they had no future in East Germany. There was no freedom, no choice in the shops, salaries were low and they could not travel except to Eastern Europe. They wanted to go to a prosperous and free West Germany but they could not get passports, so they hoped that by travelling through Hungary, the least suppressed country of the Soviet Block, they could cross the Iron Curtain into Austria and then travel on into West Germany. For them the Hungary of twenty years ago was the new east-west passage. Written by Czes

East-West Passage

In the summer of 1989 tens of thousands of tourists from communist East Germany came to Hungary. They were deeply disillusioned because they felt they had no future in East Germany. There was no freedom, no choice in the shops, salaries were low and they could not travel except to Eastern Europe. They wanted to go to a prosperous and free West Germany but they could not get passports, so they hoped that by travelling through Hungary, the least suppressed country of the Soviet Block, they could cross the Iron Curtain into Austria and then travel on into West Germany. For them the Hungary of twenty years ago was the new east-west passage. Written by Czes

Hungarian Retro

A feature length, lively - montage style - documentary, capturing the essence of what life was like in socialist Hungary - dubbed the "The most cheerful barrack" back then - using contemporary music, interviews, adverts and news footages.

Balaton retró

Scenes from holiday life at Lake Balaton in Hungary during the communism.

The Life of an Agent

The Life of an Agent, Police Training in the Kádár Era (Gabor Zsigmond Papp, 2004), uses a series of films shot by the Hungarian Interior Ministry between 1958 and 1988 and screened for generations after generations of secret police agents thus taught about methods designed to protect the state socialist regime: secret searches of homes, operational monitoring of enemy persons, the installation of audio surveillance equipment, and the organization of networks of informers. The film, which works exclusively with secret police material, sheds significant light on the mechanisms of the maintenance of power despite all the paranoia and the battle waged against its own citizens.

Az ügynök élete

The Kádár regime is peculiar filmmaker's workshop, the Interior Film Studio from 1958 to 1988, hundreds of propaganda, education, small and large feature films were produced. Some of these large scale thematic okítani secret policemen tried to protect our political system. Topics include secret searches, targeted operational monitoring, installation or recruitment agents and informers, eavesdropping devices. The educational films primitive narrative is somewhat contrary to "sublime" to their purpose, making ridiculous and petty can. The film was appalled sophistication of today's crowd: amazing that the Kádár era heyday of ideological education were much energy into this one bit cheap and simple form. A selection of the most interesting details of the artists presented in the Kádár regime violence organization and functioning mentality.

A kollégium végnapjai

Chronicles the last days of Eötvös Kollégium between 1945 and 1950.

Én is téged, nagyon

Stories through series of text messages