Lili Monori — Actor (8)

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Cloud Above the River Ganges (2002) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Felhő a Gangesz felett
other title: Felhő a Gangesz felett
András and Juli meet at a desperate moment in their lives, when they have both made a difficult decision, the consequences of which they cannot bear alone. András, a talented but heavily addicted programmer, decides to end his career, while Juli, a budding actress, has left her husband and temporarily her daughter to rethink her life. The two move in together and lock themselves in Andrew's apartment, where he enters his umpteenth detox, while Juli tries to help him with patience and love. In the weeks that follow, they explore the deepest depths of human existence, a hell of fear and humiliation, of physical and mental suffering. The hope of healing can mean new possibilities in the lives of these two men.

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Little Vilma: The Last Diary (2000) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Kisvilma
other title: Kisvilma / Little Vilna: The Last Diary …
The movie is inspired by writer-director Márta Mészáros' own childhood. The film is a grim reminder of horrible days under Stalinist period when several innocent people were persecuted for no fault. A good film which allow people to know how people in Europe were tortured before second world war by dictators and authoritarian regimes.

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The Hungarian Dressmaker (2024) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Ema a smrtihlav
other title: La modista húngara / Ema a smrtihlav …
Ema & Death’s-Head deals with the precarious border between humanism and the protection of one’s own life in situations when one excludes the other. Marika Sándorfi is hiding a Jewish boy during the dramatic era of the First Slovak State on the Slovak-Hungarian border. Šimon Holan, the boy in hiding, has a special ability to survive thanks to dreaming and a child’s fantasy.

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Forbidden Relations (1983) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Visszaesők
director: Zsolt Kézdi-Kovács actor: Lili Monori / Székely B. Miklós …
other title: Récidivistes / 不屈不挠乱伦恋 …
Based on a true story, a love affair develops between a half brother and half-sister. When pregnancy results and word gets out the public is outraged.

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Fetus (1994) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
A magzat
other title: 胎儿 / A magzat …
This drama follows the dilemma of a young, unwillingly pregnant wife who gives her child up for adoption by a businesswoman. Anna doesn't need another mouth to feed. She can barely afford to care for the two she already has so when she discovers that she is six weeks pregnant she readily accepts the cash offer from Terez, her tough boss at the store where she works. If she will isolate herself throughout the pregnancy, secretly bear the child and immediately allow Terez to sign for it, Anna will receive $50,000. Most of the story then focuses upon Anna's emotional processes as she evaluates her choice. Included are dream segments and shots an unborn baby in the womb.

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Nine Months (1976) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Kilenc hónap
other title: 九个月的爱情 / Kilenc hónap …
Juli moves to the big city in order to take up a job in a factory, and on the very same day the foreman János asks her to marry him. Alas, communication between the two is rough going from the very start – their visions of how life together is supposed to look divide them. János can’t find it in his heart to accept Juli’s yearning for independence or her past. In raw images that portend an almost predetermined conclusion with their social-realist tone, the film shows Juli’s resistance with all of its consequences – she decides to have her baby all on her own. In the end, we witness the actual delivery of Juli’s (in reality of course actress Lili Monori’s) child, the first birth to be shown in a film in Europe. Nine Months was honoured with the Fipresci Prize (Parallel Sections) in Cannes in 1977.
Since my first film « Cati », I have been obstinately inquiring about women with well defined personalities, able to make decisions in an independent manner, although at that time « feminism » was not really in vogue. It has now become so. The heroine of my film is one of these women. She is lucid, self-relying, and responsible. She tells the man who loves her that he must accept her as she is, with her past life, her experiences, her already formed personality. - Marta MESZAROS

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White God (2014) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Fehér isten
★ 6.9 (29 ratings) director: 凯内尔·穆德卢佐 actor: 索菲娅·普索塔 / 桑德尔·泽绍特 …
other title: 白色上帝 / Fehér isten …
13 year old Lili fights to protect her dog Hagen, and is devastated when her father sets Hagen free on the streets. Still innocently believing love can conquer any difficulty, Lili sets out to save her dog. Failing in his desperate efforts to find his beloved owner, Hagen joins a canine revolt leading a revolution against their human abusers.