Seventy Years On – 1956 on Film

Seventy Years On – 1956 on Film

A selection of films to mark the 70th anniversary of the 1956 Revolution

23 october 2026 11:00 - 22:00

Location: Díszterem, Fábri terem, Csortos terem, Törőcsik Mari terem

11.00 am
Whooping Cough
(12) / Main Hall
Hungarian comedy, drama, colour, 86 min, 1987
Director: Péter Gárdos
in Hungarian

11.00 am
Twenty Hours
(12) / Fábri Hall
Hungarian drama, bw, 108 min, 1965
Director: Zoltán Fábri
in Hungarian

11.00 am
The Empire Gone With A Sneeze
(KN) / Csortos Hall
Hungarian fairy tale, colour, 81 min, 1956
Director: Tamás Banovich
in Hungarian

11.00 am
Daniel Takes a Train (12) / Törőcsik Hall
Hungarian drama, colour, 89 min, 1983
Director: Pál Sándor
in Hungarian

2.00 pm
Sunshine
(12)/ Csortos terem
Hungarian-Austrian-Canadian-German drama, colour, 181 min, 1999
Director: István Szabó
in English, with Hungarian subtitles

2.00 pm
The Sun Street Boys
(12)/ Törőcsik Hall
Hungarian drama, colour, 89 min, 2007
Director: Szomjas György
in Hungarian

2.30 pm
A Good Day for a Lottery
(12) / Main Hall
Hungarian comedy, colour, 99 min, 2003
Director: Sándor Kardos, Illés Szabó
in Hungarian

3.00 pm
At Midnight
(12) / Fábri Hall
Hungarian drama, bw, 95 min, 1957
Director: György Révész
in Hungarian

4.30 pm
Every Sunday
(12) / Main Hall
Hungarian drama, colour, 105 min, 1995
Director: Sándor Simó
in Hungarian

5.00 pm
Two Stories from the Recent Past
(16) / Fábri Hall
Hungarian drama, colour, 106 min, 1979
Director: Károly Makk
in Hungarian

5.00 pm
Roofs At Dawn
(16) / Törőcsik Hall
Hungarian drama, colour, 88 min, 1986
Director: János Dömölky
in Hungarian

5.30 pm
The Bitter Truth
(12) / Csortos terem
Hungarian drama, bw, 89 min, 1956
Director: Zoltán Várkonyi
in Hungarian

6.30 pm
Time Stands Still
(12)/ Main Hall
Hungarian drama, colour, 96 min, 1981
Director: Péter Gothár
in Hungarian

7.00 pm
Father (Diary of a Faith)
(12) / Fábri Hall
Hungarian drama, bw, 85 min, 1966
Director: István Szabó
in Hungarian

7.00 pm
Another Way
(16) / Törőcsik Hall
Hungarian drama, colour, 104 min, 1982
Director: Károly Makk
in Hungarian

7.15 pm
Diary for My Father and Mother
(16) / Csortos terem
Hungarian drama, colour, 111 min, 1990
Director: Márta Mészáros
in Hungarian

Tickets: 2100 HUF 
No further discounts apply.


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The Sun Street Boys

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The story begins on October 23, 1956...

Time Stands Still

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A Teenager's Journey Toward Freedom—In the Shadow of 1956.

Every Sunday

(12)
Love, war, and a fresh start in the story of a life torn apart.

Whooping Cough

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Twenty Hours

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A harrowing account of how politics tore apart friendships and ruined people’s lives.

The Empire Gone With A Sneeze

A witty satire on tyranny—Imre Soós’s final film.

Daniel Takes a Train

(12)
A film about fleeing after ’56 and the choice: to leave or to stay?

Sunshine

(12)
István Szabó’s film depicts the turmoil of the 20th century through the story of one family.

A Good Day for a Lottery

(12)
A winning lottery ticket and the 1956 Revolution turn an ordinary person’s life completely upside down.

At Midnight

(12)
The first film on the subject of 1956 to be made after the revolution was crushed.

Two Stories from the Recent Past

(16)
Film by Károly Makk, based on the short stories of Tibor Déry

Roofs At Dawn

(16)
Condensed into a single painting: friendship, love, and the tragic legacy of the 1950s.

The Bitter Truth

(12)
The Untold Truth of the 1950s – a banned film.

Father (Diary of a Faith)

(12)
In István Szabó’s film, the memories and imagination of a boy growing up without a father evoke the fate of an entire generation.

Another Way

(16)
Forbidden love, in a harrowing story that broke taboos and defied the Kádár dictatorship.

Diary for My Father and Mother

(16)
The harrowing story of the 1956 Revolution and its suppression, as seen through the lives of individuals.
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