Ferenc Kiss
Know for: Acting
Born: 1892-04-16
Place of birth: Székesfehérvár, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]
Also know as:
The Martyrdom of St. John (1966)
Story of a young teacher starting to work in rural Hungary
Csutak and the Grey Horse (1961)
Csutak is just a pain in the neck, the little boy is even excluded from play by his mates. Vacation is spent lonely until one day he sneaks the woman...
The Five-Forty (1939)
Set in Paris (which looks more like Budapest), the story concerns a murder investigation conducted by one Judge Henri Tessier. The audience is led to...
Cafe Moscow (1936)
About a man's disappointment in love, and this provides the foundation for the upcoming trial of a much more significant love. The scene of the fatal...
Twenty Hours (1965)
A crusading newspaper reporter covers the Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956. Initially critical of the communists, the feature later espouses the...
Silent Bells (1940)
The bells of the Calvinist church in Garabó have been silent for years, and people prefer to go the Rumanian church. Returning from his...
New Gilgames (1963)
The story recalling the spirit of Gilgamesh, the Sumerian king quarrelling with his approaching death, takes place in a cancer hospital in Budapest....
Sarajevo (1940)
It is a muster parade in Sarajevo in honour of Ferenc Ferdinánd. Polgár Éva and baron Várnay Miklós, her...
Man of Gold (1936)
Az Aranyember (The Man of Gold) was based on a novel by Jokai, at one time Hungary's foremost storyteller. Set in the early 19th century, the story...
Légy jó mindhalálig (1936)
The story follows the life of a bright and sensitive schoolboy growing up in an old, established boarding school in the city of Debrecen in eastern...
Football of the Good Old Days (1973)
The film is set in Budapest, 1924. Laundryman Ede Minarik's only passion is football. His dream is to see his team, Csabagyöngye, qualify...
Wedding in Toprin (1939)
Sent on a spy mission to the estate of Count Toprini, Lieutenant Imre is helped by the count's wife who is unhappy in her marriage.
Abhorrence (1965)
Nelli, the icy, introverted farm girl, needs to find a husband following her father's death. She accepts the attentions of the noisy Takaró...
A Bird of Heaven (1958)
Panni, coming from a landless family of ten and Miska have loved each other for a long time. The pretty Panni, however, has another suitor as well:...
John, the Hero (1939)
1938 screen adaptation of the 1904 musical version of the classic Hungarian fairy tale poem by Sándor Petőfi.
Junk Movie (1992)
It is 1989, the year of the demise of socialism in eastern Europe. Nevertheless, the one theme of Junk Movie does not refer to this historical moment...