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Zoltán Várkonyi

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Zoltán Várkonyi was a Hungarian actor and film director. In 1961, he was a member of the jury at the 2nd Moscow International Film Festival. Four years later, he was a member of the jury at the 4th Moscow International Film Festival.

13-05-1912

Birthday

Taurus

Zodiac Sign

-

Genres

33

Total Films

Zoltan Varkonyi, Золтан Варкони, Зольтан Варконьи, Золтан Варконьи

Also known as (male)

Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]

Place of Birth

Popular works

Creative career

actor

33 Works

producer

0 Works

director

27 Works

writer

7 Works

other

0 Works

A Charming Family

A Charming Family

Mrs. Endrényi, an old woman in Old Buda learns that her house is going to be demolished and she is going to get a new apartment. Since she would like her family members to have the same advantage, she takes them in her apartment.
8.5

Year:

1971

Charmers

Charmers

This light comedy with grotesque elements tells the story of M, the young and beautiful model mother, who seeks happiness and a father for her precocious, but inventive daughter, Tündike.
0.0

Year:

1970

Historical Private Affairs

Historical Private Affairs

A light comedy of four love-stories.
0.0

Year:

1969

Boys From the Square

Boys From the Square

The story takes place during World War II and presents the illegal movement from inside. Some tough guys from the square have been angry with Albert Zoli, a boxer since he started living a decent life, passed the final examination at high-school, and entered a job as a bank clerk. About his illegal activity, however, they do not even have the slightest idea. With the help of Zsizsi, a young actress, and Diogenes, an extravagant tramp, he persuades the guys to join the movement. They distribute anti-Nazi handbills and paint pacifist slogans onto the walls of houses.
0.0

Year:

1967

Mermaid on the Signet Ring

Mermaid on the Signet Ring

The Gestapo is preparing for the liquidation of the Hungarian anti-Nazi resistance movement.
0.0

Year:

1967

A Hungarian Nabob 2: Karpathy Zoltan

A Hungarian Nabob 2: Karpathy Zoltan

On the novel by Mór Jókai. The first half of the XVIII century. Several decades of life of a noble family Karpati.
7.0

Year:

1966

Light behind the Shutter

Light behind the Shutter

Torday Géza, a new engineer arrives at the ammunition factory disguised as if manufacturing camping gears. His appearance upsets existing patterns. The director sells the products at a low price in the West. In the meantime diversionaries attempt to destroy the plant. It turns out that Torday is a man of the intelligence built in among the reconnaissance people, as is his childhood lover, Magda. Agents and policemen play the game.
0.0

Year:

1966

Story of My Foolishness

Story of My Foolishness

The celebrated actor considers his wife a nitwits actress of a mediocre talent. But an influential playwright, a friend of theirs, has written a play with the main role designed for her, Kati, particularly. Its title is "The Most Intelligent Woman in the World". On the day of the first night performance Kati recalls their past, the times she had together with her husband.
0.0

Year:

1966

All Beginnings Are Hard

All Beginnings Are Hard

The film is a cabaret style, satirical montage of the political events and everydays
0.0

Year:

1966

A Hungarian Nabob

A Hungarian Nabob

On the novel by Mór Jókai. The first half of the XVIII century. Several decades of life of a noble family Karpati.
7.2

Year:

1966

Sons of the Stone-Hearted Man

Sons of the Stone-Hearted Man

Based on the novel of Mór Jókai. During the Hungarian independence war 1848-49 mother and her three sons trying to leave the road precisely designated by their conservative, stone-hearted father. The way-seeking and rivalry of brothers, Jókai's masterpiece, the cast, delightful scenes give an unforgettable experience.
6.2

Year:

1965

Darkness in Daytime

Darkness in Daytime

In 1963 in Tihany, somebody addresses the writer Gábor Náday. He is reminded of a night drive in 1944 that saved his life. Painful memories start coming to Náday.
0.0

Year:

1963

Haber's Photo Shop

Haber's Photo Shop

A priest who has been set free from prison recently joins a spy organization.
6.3

Year:

1963

Villa Negra

Villa Negra

A past world is revived in the little cottage in the outskirts, next to the housing blocks under construction. Tamburás, the old hobo collects swerved youth: Diák, who desires freedom, the bus driver who is deprived of his license for having run over someone, and the rest. They have got an easy and unbound life there, with constant music, small thefts, occasional labour, tricks.
8.0

Year:

1963

Három csillag

Három csillag

0.0

Year:

1960

The Last Adventure of Don Juan

The Last Adventure of Don Juan

Don Juan, the seducer, is cursed by the governor of Seville: he can only live until a woman rejects him. Thanks to this curse, Don Juan has been living in bliss for 400 years when he arrives in Budapest. Of course, in the new city he chooses a new girl to conquer, Kata Lukacs. The experienced heartthrob used all tricks and tricks, but it seems that none of this has an effect on Kata.
0.0

Year:

1958

Iron Flower

Iron Flower

During the worldwide Depression of the 1930s, a young shopgirl is in love with a man of her own financial class, but succumbs to the seductive machinations of her wealthy boss.
6.0

Year:

1958

Fourteen Lives

Fourteen Lives

September 1952 in a mine in Northern-Hungary after an explosion water breaks in from the neighbouring shaft and fourteen miners become trapped. The whole country unites to save them.
0.0

Year:

1954

The Day of Wrath

The Day of Wrath

In May 1919 in a small rural town beside Salgótarján the local high society wants to get the power back with the leadership of dr. Máriáss, exploiting the outside attack launched against the Republic of Councils.
0.0

Year:

1953

The Sea has Risen

The Sea has Risen

March 15, 1848; the revolution breaks out in the town of Pest. Yet at café Pilvax, in among he revolutionary youth, there is the informer of the imperial court as well. Hearing the news of the attack led by Jellasics, the inhabitants of the villages pour into the national army, and Hajdú Gyurka also escapes from his landlord. Petőfi is there at the camp of the revolutionaries, raising them to enthusiasm with his poetry.
5.5

Year:

1953

Erkel

Erkel

10.0

Year:

1952

Nyugati övezet

Nyugati övezet

7.0

Year:

1952

Tüz

Tüz

1h 35min | 21 October 1948 (Hungary)
0.0

Year:

1948

The Gold Watch

The Gold Watch

In the story, the golden watch is a metaphor: life of an individual for whom honesty is of real value. Uncle Bogdán is the one to have the golden watch, which is all the "fortune" he has, apart from Juci, his only daughter, who supports him
0.0

Year:

1946

The School-Mistress

The School-Mistress

The protagonist of the story is Flora, a teacher who wants to teach in the village, in accordance with her vocation and her oath. Her beauty and purity bring her into conflict with the local authorities and with the landowning family of the countryside. Aware of her truth, she defies them, but can only count on the sympathy of the old priest. István Nagy Jr., the idle, dissolute landowner's son, falls in love with Flóra, and love changes him: he takes her side, exposing the lecherous hypocrites.
0.0

Year:

1945

Two Times Two

Two Times Two

The film is the simultaneous portrayal of the wedding ceremony and honeymoon of a city and a country couple.
0.0

Year:

1944

The Belated Letter

The Belated Letter

The outbreak of war ends the love of Mária and Endre. Mária is still expecting the return of Endre, father of Anna, her daughter, who was born while her father was away. The war is long over. A few decades elapse, and a letter is accidentally discovered in a post office building now under reconstruction.
5.0

Year:

1941

The Crucial Moment

The Crucial Moment

7.0

Year:

1938

Fekete gyémántok

Fekete gyémántok

0.0

Year:

1938

My Daughter Is Different

My Daughter Is Different

Gitta is 20 years old, a girl with modern attitudes, who is courted by Ferenc Fekete. Not particularly liked by Gitta's parents, especially her old-fashioned father, Fekete dates Gitta in secret.
10.0

Year:

1937

The Dream Car

The Dream Car

A light hearted comedy, from the thirties. One of the most successful ones in Hungary. The ever enchanting story of a beautiful girl falling in love with a rich man.
5.8

Year:

1934