Librarian Géza Kriston is fired from his job after 20 years of work, but he refuses to leave the library building and gets into a fight with the people carrying out the demolition. After the fight, he ends up in police custody, where he meets Sándor Tököli, the Roma pickpocket, who sniffs out the severance pay from the strange librarian in his pocket.
Iván is living in exile from Hungary when he receives word that an old flame is ill. His return to Budapest rekindles old memories and reopens old wounds.
The true story of Giorgio Perlasca, an Italian cattle dealer and avowed fascist who — trapped in Nazi-occupied Budapest after Italy's armistice with the Allies — nevertheless saved more than 5,000 Hungarian Jews from the Holocaust through a combination of lies, bribery and derring-do.
A gypsy apothecary-violinist befriends a Hapsburg prince after saving his life during the disastrous Hungarian War of Independence in 1849.
Dezső Garas (9 September 1934 – 30 December 2011) was a Hungarian actor, who appeared in over 145 films and television shows since 1956. He starred in the 1993 film Whoops, which was entered into the 43rd Berlin International Film Festival. Garas died in Budapest on 30 December 2011, aged 77, following a long illness. Description above from the Wikipedia article Dezső Garas, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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