Pál Schiffer

Elektra Kft. avagy: bevezetés a kapitalizmus politikai gazdaságtanába

Six physical workers, once working for Videoton, decide to come together and create a company on their own.

Elektra Kft. avagy: bevezetés a kapitalizmus politikai gazdaságtanába

Six physical workers, once working for Videoton, decide to come together and create a company on their own.

The Videoton Story

Pál Schiffer's classic documentary about the closing of the Videoton factory as it falls prey to unfortunate economic transitions.

By the Danube

The residents of Dunapataj discuss the major historical events of the 20th century and talk about how history has affected their local lives.

On Probation

János Kitka Jr, first seen in Schiffer's documentary 'Black Train' a decade earlier, is now 17 and is just released from a youth detention centre. He returns to his village and is put in the care of a probation officer. However, his family doesn't seem to help his situation, but rather makes him run away from home.

On Probation

János Kitka Jr, first seen in Schiffer's documentary 'Black Train' a decade earlier, is now 17 and is just released from a youth detention centre. He returns to his village and is put in the care of a probation officer. However, his family doesn't seem to help his situation, but rather makes him run away from home.

Gyuri

The documentary-feature film taking place in the seventies is the "development novel" of Cséplő György, the intelligent and ambitious Gypsy boy. Having finished only two terms at school, the eighteen-year-old boy leaves Németfalu with two of his companions to find employment in Budapest and to break out of his miserable existence in the village cottage with the help of his small savings.

Gyuri

The documentary-feature film taking place in the seventies is the "development novel" of Cséplő György, the intelligent and ambitious Gypsy boy. Having finished only two terms at school, the eighteen-year-old boy leaves Németfalu with two of his companions to find employment in Budapest and to break out of his miserable existence in the village cottage with the help of his small savings.

What Do Gypsy Children Do?

Pál Schiffer's film reports on the injustices of the education system of the 1970s, the lies of the Kádár system, and the everyday life of Roma children.

Levelek az öttalálatoshoz

After the name of a recent lottery winner is announced in the newspaper, hundreds of letters are sent to him, asking to borrow or receive some of the money.

Black Train

This shocking black and white documentary shows the lives of Szabolcs county (Northeast Hungary) commuters who traveled 200-300 kilometers from their villages to Budapest (the capital of Hungary) every week by train in the communist era.