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- Story of the owners (Mastroianni and Schygulla) of a fancy nightclub in Budapest before and during WWII.
- On Hitler's birthday, the Germans decide to organize a soccer match between prisoners of war and Germans.
- Michael Tímar, captain of the St. Barbara, marries the daughter of a Turkish aristocrat on the run. While skilfully managing his wife fortune, Tímar is torn between the demands of bourgeois civilization and the ideal of freedom.
- In 1918, a group of soldiers of various nationalities conspires to desert the imperial Austro-Hungarian army.
- Narcissus and Psyche is based on a novel by Sandor Weores. Borrowing the character of Psyche from mythology and placing her in Europe in the 19th century, the authors give her a "modern" life. She is an attractive young woman - and remains so throughout the film, in spite of one hardship after another. Psyche is libidinous, and her prurient interests shock her staid contemporaries.
- A new sculpture was dedicated to the small town main park. Not everybody is satisfied with it because the sculpture (boy with a flute) is naked...
- A woodcutter moves his wife and son onto a mountain for an attempt at a better life but tragedy soon sets in.
- A musician in an all-girl band and a bricklayer join forces as they both try to make it in Budapest, supporting each other through changing economic fortunes, the advances of lecherous men, and the highs and heartbreaks of love.
- For many years, the Vajkays have been desperately hoping that their unfortunate, ugly daughter will finally find her mate and happiness. Even now, they send Pacsirta away for a few days to visit relatives and introduce her to the widowed father of three. The lonely couple reunite with their old friends. They go to the theatre, which they haven't been to for years because Pacsirta can't stand the smell of theatre. After the performance, Vajkay is invited to the casino by his former table mate. The old man, who has given up everything years ago, now spends the night having fun, and at dawn, in a moment of bitter sobering up, he and his wife face for the first time their ruined lives, their lost happiness sacrificed for their daughter.
- When a rich man, intending to go back to work, puts his villa up for sale, the butler hires a couple of agents to tell prospective customers the place is a bad buy.
- 1938: Shostakovich encourages his pupil Fleischmann to write an opera based on the Chekhov story 'Rothschild's violin'. Fleischmann is killed during the siege of Leningrad. Shostakovich completes the orchestration, but in 1948 is advised to suppress the opera, during Stalin's campaign against "rootless cosmopolitans". Jewish motifs enter Shostakovich's own work. The film includes a filmed version of the opera itself.
- A tale about Budapest in the 1950-s, where a teacher in love, a naive young maid, a respectful waiter and a busy doctor become unlikely friends with the same purpose: to win the main price of the "Totó"-lottery.
- 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.
- In a cosmopolitan city vaudeville theatre, meeting place of the most successful artistes, the art shooter gets in suspicion to have committed a murderous poster on his jealous partner. - Not particularly successful mixture of vaudeville theatre numbers, artiste's destiny and crime film tension, on an average produced and played. A production rotated in Budapest with the popular dancer La Jana.
- Mail author for translation. Futbólia minisztertanácsa ehatározza, hogy megszerzi az ország- nak a világhírû magyar csodacsatárt. Duca tengernagyra bízzák az akció végrehajtását. A magyar csapat éppen Svájcban ját- szik, Duca tehát odautazik embereivel. A labdarúgokat két nyugaton élõ magyar--Bruno és Jóska--követi a szállodába, hogy töltõtollakat adjon el nekik. Véletlenül õket is lefény- képezik, s Duca tengernagy Jóskát raboltatja el. A szeren--csétlennek döntõ mérkõzésen kell játszania, a dolog botrányba fullad, s a szurkolók már-már forradalmat robbantanak ki..
- The wasteful Ferenc Noszty gets into serious trouble when even his family can't help him pay back his debts. There seems to be no other way, so they find him a rich girl to marry.