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Football Of The Good Old Days
Football of the Good Old Days () is a 1973 Hungarian comedy film, which was based on Iván Mándy's novel 'A pálya szélén' (On the side of the field). Directed by Pál Sándor. The catchphrase of the film: We need a team! In 2012, it was included among the best 53 Hungarian works selected by members of the Hungarian Academy of Arts. Plot The film takes place in Budapest in 1924. Ede Minarik, who is running a laundry operation, has only one passion: soccer. He dreams of his team, Csabagyöngye, getting into the first division against Fősör's team. For this purpose, he would be willing to sacrifice everything he has. But he has nothing, not even a whole team. The team is just like the age they live in. But even then, "you need a team!" The end of the film recalls an actual event: the national team from the Paris Olympics, which suffered a 3-0 defeat by Egypt, is waiting at the train station. Cast * Dezső Garas - Ede Minarik, laundry operator * Tamás Major - Mr. Ker ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pál Sándor (director)
Pál Sándor (born 19 October 1939) is a Hungarian film director, producer, and screenwriter. He has directed 28 films since 1964. His 1976 film ''A Strange Role'' was entered into the 27th Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Silver Bear. Selected filmography * ''Football of the Good Old Days'' (1973) * ''A Strange Role'' (1976) * ''Miss Arizona The Miss Arizona competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state of Arizona in the Miss America pageant. Arizona has twice won the Miss America title. The first Miss Arizona, Anna Marie Barnett, was crowned in 1938. S ...'' (1987) * '' Daughter of Darkness'' (1990) References External links * 1939 births Living people Hungarian film directors Hungarian film producers 20th-century Hungarian screenwriters Hungarian male screenwriters {{Hungary-film-director-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dezső Garas
Dezső Garas (9 December 1934 – 30 December 2011) was a Hungarian actor, who appeared in more than 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 Budapest is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns of Hungary, most populous city of Hungary. It is the List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, tenth-largest city in the European Union by popul ... on 30 December 2011, aged 77, following a long kidney-related illness. Selected filmography * '' Liliomfi'' (1954) * '' Summer Clouds'' (1957) * '' Adventure in Gerolstein'' (1957) * '' Tale on the Twelve Points'' (1957) * '' The Smugglers'' (1958) * '' Two Half Times in Hell'' (1961) * '' Tales of a Long Journey'' (1963) * '' Lady-Killer in Trouble'' (1964) * '' Car Crazy'' (1965) * '' Football of the Good Old Days'' (1973) * '' Jacob the Liar'' (1975) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tamás Major
Tamás Major (26 January 1910 – 13 April 1986) was a Hungarian stage and film actor. He also acted as the director of the Hungarian National Theatre from 1945 to 1962. Selected filmography * ''A szüz és a gödölye'' (1941) - István, Huber fiatalabb fia * '' A Strange Marriage'' (1951) - Jezsuita * '' Erkel'' (1952) - Kölcsey Ferenc * ''Crime at Dawn'' (1960) - Halmágyi * ''Az utolsó vacsora'' (1962) * ''Miért rosszak a magyar filmek?'' (1964) - Póczik * ''Világos feladja'' (1964) - Mr. Borowski * '' Az Életbe táncoltatott leány'' (1964) - A képmutogató * ''Mit csinált Felséged 3-tól 5-ig?'' (1964) - Narrator * ''Car Crazy'' (1965) - Igazgató * ''A köszívü ember fiai'' (1965) - Baradlay Kázmér * '' The Corporal and the Others'' (1965) - Albert * ''Nem'' (1965) - Lakásügyi elõadó * ''Minden kezdet nehéz'' (1966) * ''Hideg napok'' (1966) - Grassy ezredes * '' And Then The Guy...'' (1966) - Xandor * ''Egy magyar nábob'' (1966) - Griffard * ''Sellö a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elemér Ragályi
Elemér Ragályi (18 April 1939 – 30 March 2023) was a Hungarian cinematographer and film director. In 1996, he won a Primetime Emmy Award for his work on the television film ''Rasputin''. He died on 30 March 2023, at the age of 83. Filmography * 1967 ''Meddig él az ember?'' * 1968 ''Holtág'' * 1968 ''Szeretnék csákót csinálni'' * 1969 ''Vankóné Dudás Juli'' * 1969 ''Látogatás'' * 1969 ''Sziget a szárazföldön'' * 1969 ''Kelj fel és járj!'' * 1969 ''A nagy kék jelzés'' * 1970 ''The Falcons'' * 1970 ''Arc'' * 1970 ''Befejezetlenül'' * 1970 ''Büntetőexpedíció'' * 1971 ''Staféta'' * 1971 ''Sárika, drágám'' * 1971 ''Madárkák'' * 1971 ''Tanítókisasszonyok'' * 1971 ''Botütés saját kérésre'' * 1973 ''Photography'' * 1973 ''Kakuk Marci'' * 1974 ''Istenmezején'' * 1974 ''Álmodó ifjúság'' * 1973 ''Football of the Good Old Days'' * 1973 ''Szónokképző iskola'' * 1974 ''Bástyasétány 74'' * 1974 ''Egy kis hely a nap alatt'' * 1975 ''Szilveszt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iván Mándy
Iván Mándy (23 December 1918 in Budapest – 6 October 1995 in Budapest) was a Hungarian writer. Biography From 1945 on Mándy worked at the literary revue Újhold. After the Soviet takeover he became a freelance writer. In 1989 he got again the chance to write for a literary newspaper. He was promoted as a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature The Nobel Prize in Literature, here meaning ''for'' Literature (), is a Swedish literature prize that is awarded annually, since 1901, to an author from any country who has, in the words of the will of Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel, "in ... in 1993 by the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts. He died in 1995 in Budapest. External links Iván Mándy: On the balcony - Selected short stories Hungarian writers 1918 births 1995 deaths Hungarian children's writers {{hungary-writer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Budapest
Budapest is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns of Hungary, most populous city of Hungary. It is the List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, tenth-largest city in the European Union by population within city limits and the List of cities and towns on the river Danube, second-largest city on the river Danube. The estimated population of the city in 2025 is 1,782,240. This includes the city's population and surrounding suburban areas, over a land area of about . Budapest, which is both a List of cities and towns of Hungary, city and Counties of Hungary, municipality, forms the centre of the Budapest metropolitan area, which has an area of and a population of 3,019,479. It is a primate city, constituting 33% of the population of Hungary. The history of Budapest began when an early Celts, Celtic settlement transformed into the Ancient Rome, Roman town of Aquincum, the capital of Pannonia Inferior, Lower Pannonia. The Hungarian p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soccer
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular field called a Football pitch, pitch. The objective of the game is to Scoring in association football, score more goals than the opposing team by moving the ball beyond the goal line into a rectangular-framed Goal (sport), goal defended by the opposing team. Traditionally, the game has been played over two 45-minute halves, for a total match time of 90 minutes. With an estimated 250 million players active in over 200 countries and territories, it is the world's most popular sport. Association football is played in accordance with the Laws of the Game (association football), Laws of the Game, a set of rules that has been in effect since 1863 and maintained by the International Football Association Board, IFAB since 1886. The game is pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Egypt
Egypt ( , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country spanning the Northeast Africa, northeast corner of Africa and Western Asia, southwest corner of Asia via the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to northern coast of Egypt, the north, the Gaza Strip of Palestine and Israel to Egypt–Israel barrier, the northeast, the Red Sea to the east, Sudan to Egypt–Sudan border, the south, and Libya to Egypt–Libya border, the west; the Gulf of Aqaba in the northeast separates Egypt from Jordan and Saudi Arabia. Cairo is the capital, list of cities and towns in Egypt, largest city, and leading cultural center, while Alexandria is the second-largest city and an important hub of industry and tourism. With over 109 million inhabitants, Egypt is the List of African countries by population, third-most populous country in Africa and List of countries and dependencies by population, 15th-most populated in the world. Egypt has one of the longest histories o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
László Márkus
László Márkus (10 June 1927 – 30 December 1985) was a Hungarian actor. He appeared in over 90 films and television shows between 1952 and 1985. He starred in the 1985 film '' Első kétszáz évem'', which was entered into the 36th Berlin International Film Festival. Selected filmography * '' Battle in Peace'' (1952) * '' Sunday Romance'' (1957) * '' St. Peter's Umbrella'' (1958) * ''A Husband for Susy'' (1960) * ''Two Half Times in Hell'' (1961) * '' The Moneymaker'' (1964) * '' The Corporal and Others'' (1965) * '' And Then The Guy...'' (1966) * '' Stars of Eger'' (1968) * ''Hugo the Hippo'' (1973) * ''Football of the Good Old Days'' (1973) * ''The Fifth Seal ''The Fifth Seal'' () is a 1976 film by Hungarian director Zoltán Fábri based on the 1963 novel of the same name by Hungarian author Ferenc Sánta. It won the Golden Prize at the 10th Moscow International Film Festival and it was entered into th ...'' (1976) * '' Első kétszáz évem'' (1985) References ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hédi Temessy
Hédi Temessy (Hedvig Temesi; 6 May 1925 – 29 May 2001) was a Hungarian actress. Active for over 50 years, she appeared on stage, in films, and on television. Her significant roles include playing Márta in Gergely Csiky's ''The Grandmother'' (''A nagymama''). Early life Hedvig Temesi was born on 6 May 1925, in Budapest. Her mother was originally from Alsace-Lorraine and her maternal grandfather was a master iron worker, who had immigrated to France from Graz. As a child, she learned German from her mother. After completing her education at the State Teacher Training Institute, she enrolled in the National Actors' School in Budapest just before the start of World War II. Three months before completing her training, Temesi refused to take the compulsory political courses, as her teaching certificate confirmed she had already successfully been examination on those subjects and she wanted to take more practical courses. The school dropped her from the roles, but Márton Rátka ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cecília Esztergályos
Cecília Esztergályos (born 26 January 1943) is a Hungarian actress. She appeared in more than seventy films since 1962. Selected filmography References External links * 1943 births Living people Hungarian film actresses Actresses from Budapest {{Hungary-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
András Kern
András Kern (born 28 January 1948) is a Hungarian actor, producer, writer, singer and comedian. Life In 1965, Kern produced a film with a friend, entitled ''Mi Lesz?'' (What will happen?), and subsequently won first prize in the 13th Hungarian National Amateur Film Festival. In 1970, he graduated from the Academy of Drama and Film in Budapest. (Hungarian) He has appeared in numerous films, has written and appeared in many radio sitcoms as well as in many popular Hungarian TV shows such as Heti Hetes and Activity Show. He dubbed Woody Allen in several movies. Selected filmography * '' Stars of Eger'' (1968) * ''141 Minutes from the Unfinished Sentence'' (1975) * ''A Pogány Madonna'' (1981) * '' Oh, Bloody Life'' (1984) * '' Out of Order'' (1997) * '' 6:3 Play It Again Tutti'' (1999) See also *Hungarian pop Hungarian pop is the pop music scene of Hungary. It is often associated with Rezső Seress's song "Gloomy Sunday" which was covered by numerous artists. The most notable ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
