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Orsolya Tóth
Orsolya Tóth (born 20 November 1981) is a Hungarian actress. She has appeared in 26 films since 2002. She played the title role in the film ''Johanna'', which was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival. Selected filmography * ''Johanna'' (2005) * ''Delta'' (2008) * ''Lourdes Lourdes (, also , ; ) is a market town situated in the Pyrenees. It is part of the Hautes-Pyrénées department in the Occitanie region in southwestern France. Prior to the mid-19th century, the town was best known for its Château fort, a ...'' (2009) * '' Women Without Men'' (2009) * '' The Notebook'' (2013) * '' The Eremites'' (2016) References External links * 1981 births Living people Hungarian film actresses People from Békéscsaba {{Hungary-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Film Festival Rotterdam
International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) is an annual film festival held at the end of January in various locations in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, focused on independent and experimental films. The inaugural festival took place in June 1972, led by founder Huub Bals. IFFR also hosts CineMart and BoostNL, for film producers to seek funding. History The first festival, then called Film International, was organized in June 1972 under the leadership of Huub Bals. The festival profiled itself as a promoter of alternative, innovative, and non-commercial films, with an emphasis on the Far East and developing countries. Around 1983, the festival founded CineMart to serve as a "regular film market", and later modified the business model to serve instead as a "co-production market", which helps a selected number of film producers connect with possible co-producers and funders for their film projects. After the festival founder's sudden death in 1988, a fund was initiated and named af ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Békéscsaba
Békéscsaba (; ; see also #Name, other alternative names) is a city with county rights in southeast Hungary, the capital of Békés County. Geography Békéscsaba is located in the Great Hungarian Plain, southeast from Budapest. Highway 44, 47, Békéscsaba beltway (around the city) and Budapest-Szolnok-Békéscsaba-Lőkösháza high speed () railway line also cross the city. Highway 44 is a four-lane Limited-access road, expressway between Békéscsaba and Gyula, Hungary, Gyula. According to the 2011 census, the city has a total area of . Name ''Csaba'' is a popular Hungarian given name for boys of Turkic languages, Turkic origin, while the prefix ''Békés county, Békés'' refers to the county named Békés, which means peaceful in Hungarian language, Hungarian. Other names derived from the Hungarian one include , , and . History The area has been inhabited since the ancient times. In the Iron Age the area had been conquered by the Scythians, by the Celts, then by the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Békés County
Békés (, , ) is an administrative division (county or ''vármegye'') in south-eastern Hungary, on the border with Romania. It shares borders with the Hungarian counties Csongrád-Csanád, Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok, and Hajdú-Bihar. The capital of Békés county is Békéscsaba. The county is also part of the Danube-Kris-Mures-Tisa euroregion. Etymology In Slovak, it is known as ''Békešská župa'' and in Romanian as ''Județul Bichiș''. After Hungarians conquered the area, Békés and its surroundings were the property of the '' Csolt'' clan. Békés (the name means "peaceful") was originally the name of the castle which gave its name to the comitatus, and, like many castles, was possibly named after its first steward. Geography This county has a total area of – 6.05% of Hungary. Békés County lies on the Pannonian Plain (Great Plain) and is a flat area with good soil. The average rainfall is 645 mm per year. One-fifth of the natural gas resources of Hungar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hungarian People's Republic
The Hungarian People's Republic (HPR) was a landlocked country in Central Europe from its formation on 20 August 1949 until the establishment of the current Hungary, Republic of Hungary on 23 October 1989. It was a professed Communist_state#People's_democratic_state, communist state, governed first by the Hungarian Working People's Party and after the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party. Both governments were closely tied to the Soviet Union as part of the Eastern Bloc.Rao, B. V. (2006), ''History of Modern Europe A.D. 1789–2002'', Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd. The state considered itself the heir to the Hungarian Soviet Republic, which was formed in 1919 as one of the first communist states created after the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (Russian SFSR). It was designated a "people's democracy (Marxism–Leninism), people's democratic republic" by the Soviet Union in the 1940s. Geographically, it bordered Socialist Republic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johanna (film)
''Johanna'' is a 2005 Hungarian musical drama film directed and co-written by Kornél Mundruczó and produced by Béla Tarr. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival. The plot of the film is a retelling of story of Joan of Arc Joan of Arc ( ; ; – 30 May 1431) is a patron saint of France, honored as a defender of the French nation for her role in the siege of Orléans and her insistence on the Coronation of the French monarch, coronation of Charles VII o ... set in a hospital. The musical character of the film is operatic, with the characters speaking entirely in song, with two main characters being dubbed by singers. Cast * Orsolya Tóth - Johanna (as Orsi Tóth) * Eszter Wierdl - Johanna's Voice * Zsolt Trill - Young Doctor * Tamás Kóbor - Young Doctor's Voice * Dénes Gulyás - Professor * József Hormai - 1st Doctor * Sándor Kecskés - 2nd Doctor * Viktória Mester - 1st Nurse * Hermina Fátyol - 2nd Nur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Un Certain Regard
(; 'A Certain Glance') is a section of the Cannes Film Festival's official selection. It is run at the Debussy, parallel to the competition for the . This section was introduced in 1978 by Gilles Jacob. The section presents 20 films with unusual styles and non-traditional stories seeking international recognition. At the 1998 Cannes Film Festival, ''Killer (1998 film), Killer'' by Darezhan Omirbaev was named the first ever winner. While The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo, ''The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo'' by Diego Céspedes is the most recent winner. Winners In 1998, the was introduced to the section to recognize young talent and to encourage innovative and daring works by presenting one of the films with a grant to aid its distribution in France. Since 2005, the prize consists of Euro, €30,000 financed by the Groupama GAN Foundation. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2005 Cannes Film Festival
The 58th Cannes Film Festival took place from 11 May and ran until 22 May 2005. Serbian filmmaker Emir Kusturica served as jury president for the main competition. Cécile de France hosted the opening and closing ceremonies. Belgian filmmakers Dardenne brothers, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, the Dardenne brothers, won the Palme d'Or for the second time with the drama film ''L'Enfant (film), L'Enfant''. The festival opening film was ''Lemming (film), Lemming'' directed by Dominik Moll, while ''Chromophobia (film), Chromophobia'' directed by Martha Fiennes was the closing film. Juries Main competition * Emir Kusturica, Serbian filmmaker - Jury President * Fatih Akın, Turkish-German filmmaker * Javier Bardem, Spanish actor * Nandita Das, Indian actress * Salma Hayek, Mexican-American actress * Benoît Jacquot, French filmmaker * Toni Morrison, American author * Agnès Varda, French filmmaker * John Woo, Hong Kong filmmaker ''Un Certain Regard'' *Alexander Payne, American filmmak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Delta (2008 Film)
''Delta'' (also called "Delta" in the original language) is a 2008 Hungarian drama film directed by Kornél Mundruczó and starring violinist Félix Lajkó Félix Lajkó (, ''Feliks Lajko''; born 17 December 1974 in Bačka Topola, SR Serbia, SFR Yugoslavia) is a Hungarians, Hungarian violinist, zither player and composer. He plays a variety of musical styles: folk music (traditional Strings (music ... in a non-musical acting role and actress Orsi Tóth. Supporting cast include Sándor Gáspár as the stepfather, Lili Monori as the mother, Sándor Fábián as the uncle, Tamás Polgár as the village boy. Delta won the 2008 Golden Reel at Hungarian Film Week. 6 February 2008 , By Theodore Schwinke ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lourdes (2009 Film)
''Lourdes'' is a 2009 film directed by Jessica Hausner. It stars Sylvie Testud, Léa Seydoux, Bruno Todeschini and Elina Löwensohn. The film had its world premiere at the main competition of the 66th Venice International Film Festival. At the 2009 Vienna International Film Festival the film won the Vienna Film Prize for Best Film. Plot Christine (Sylvie Testud) is a wheelchair-using woman with severe multiple sclerosis. Along with a group of other invalids of varying disabilities she makes a pilgrimage to the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes in the town of Lourdes, France. Christine is assigned a volunteer helper, Maria (Léa Seydoux) who acts as an aid for her and helps to feed and dress her. Christine admits to Maria that she is not particularly religious but that she has been on several pilgrimages as it affords her the possibility of travelling. Maria develops a crush on Kuno one of the guards assigned to care for the group. He is, in turn, attentive to Christine. When M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Women Without Men (2009 Film)
Women Without Men may refer to: * ''Women Without Men'' (1927 film), a 1927 German silent drama film * ''Women Without Men'' (1956 film), a 1956 British drama film * ''Women Without Men'' (novel), a novel from 1990 by Shahrnush Parsipur ** ''Women Without Men'' (2009 film), a 2009 film set in Iran during the 1950s based on the novel {{Disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Notebook (2013 Hungarian Film)
''The Notebook'' () is a 2013 drama film co-written and directed by János Szász. It is based on the first novel, of the same name, of the 1986 prize winning The Notebook Trilogy by Ágota Kristóf. Plot Two twins are sent to a remote village where their grandmother lives so they can stay safe during the war. However they find out the village may not be as safe as they think when they are beaten by the village's residents. Cast * András Gyémánt as One * László Gyémánt as Other * Gyöngyvér Bognár as Mother * Piroska Molnár as Grandmother * András Réthelyi as Orderly *Ulrich Thomsen as Officer *Orsolya Tóth as Harelip *János Derzsi as Sutor * Péter Andorai as Deacon * Miklós Székely B. as Old homeless * Krisztián Kovács as Deserter soldier * Ákos Köszegi as Hungarian officer * Ulrich Matthes as Father Nominations and awards The film was first released at the 48th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in July 2013, where it won the Crystal Globe, as w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Eremites
''The Eremites'' () is a 2016 German drama film written and directed by . It premiered in the Horizons section at the 73rd edition of the Venice Film Festival. Plot The film tells the story of Albert, a man in his mid-30s, and his mother, the mountain farmer Marianne. Albert is the only surviving child of the Eggerhof farmers Marianne and Rudl, his three siblings died on the way to school in an avalanche accident many years ago. Despite his age, his mother still largely determines Albert's life. She wants to spare him the lonely life on the mountain and be the last to run the farm. So she organized a job for him in a marble quarry down in the valley. The introverted Albert initially found it difficult to make friends there, occasionally sneaking back into the yard to spend the night secretly in the hay store. One day his father Rudl had a fatal accident at work. Marianne hides this fact from her son and the outside world, fearing that Albert might return to the farm to take ove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
