hungary

Presents twenty-three Hungarian folktales, featuring historical figures such as King Matthias, legends about the founding of Hungary and the Mongol raids, Turkish tales, Gypsy stories, and tales that reflect Hungary's geographical position as a meeting place in east-central Europe.

Teenager Bandi Guttmann, a Hungarian Jew, is forced to move with his family into a "star house" as the Nazis' grip on his country grows tighter. Based on a true story.

Traces the life of the diplomat who saved Hungarian Jews during World War II and mysteriously disappeared after the Russians occupied Budapest.

The youngest of three brothers is able to free three beautiful princesses from their enchantment because of his kindness.

Recounts, through interviews with refugees, the 1956 Hungarian revolt against Russia.

Dr. Miklos Nyiszli, a Jew and medical doctor, tells of his experiences at Auschwitz during World War II.

When the gardener is imprisoned for stealing the sultan's bath water for a secret garden, he devises a solution agreeable to everyone.

Little Rooster finds a diamond button which a sultan takes from him, but he is determined to get it back.

Dr. Miklos Nyiszli, a Jewish doctor imprisoned at Auschwitz, tells of his experiences serving under Josef Mengele, during which he was forced to perform experiments and autopsies on fellow inmates and treated the Sonderkommando, Jewish prisoners who were routinely executed after four months of forced labor in the crematoria.