Acting
Aug 23, 1972
Kráľovský Chlmec, Československo
Csongor Kassai
Acting
Biography
Csongor Kassai is a Slovak actor of Hungarian origin, member of the Radošino Naive Theatre. In the Czech Republic, he is best known for his role as the Jewish David Wiener in Jan Hřebejk's film Divided We Fall (2000), and he played the character of Lucifer in the Czech fairy tale film The Devil Knows Why (2003). Description above from the Wikipedia article Csongor Kassai, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Feature Films (31)
In 1943, a childless couple, the Čížeks, decide to hide a Jewish refugee, David Wiener, the son of Čížek's former employer, in the secret pantry of their apartment. Čížek is aware of the danger into which he has brought his household and his neighbours, but he takes helping his fellow man in need for granted. But at the same time, as a largely unheroic hero, he is dying of fear. His personal situation is greatly complicated by the approaching end of the war, when he faces danger from both the Germans and his "honest" fellow Czechs...
Divided We Fall
In 1980s CSSR, depressed Martin tries to overcome the feeling of being locked up with jazz music.
Music
A good king rules this land, but still things are going from bad to worse. The point is that the greedy Minister of State has an interesting pact with the Devil — for bringing the kingdom into a state of dire poverty and the king to hell, he himself would sit on the throne. And he would have been well nigh successful, were it not for Princess Annie, Filip and magic Apolena — because true love cannot be quelled even by the Devil's machinations.
The Devil Knows Why
The story of a young woman who takes it upon herself to save her brothers and rid them of a curse which they were put under by their mother.
The Seven Ravens
Poetic film from summertime Bratislava, reminiscent of Slovak films of the 1960s or the work of Dušan Hanák.
Rojkovia
The aging couple might have been enjoying a gracious autumn of their lives had it not been for a crack in the wall that revealed a secret that changed their lives forever. A secret that became a nightmare. A secret of the past... Can the past kill? A loving couple enters the abandoned house she has chosen as a meeting place one wet and rainy morning. It could have been an ordinary date. On inspection, they enter a room with only a small window and one door. Suddenly the door closes... an eye watches them through a crack in the wall. That eye doesn't bode well!
Oko ve zdi
Comedy inspired by paperback crime novels tells the story of an adventurous search for a mysterious murderer who just after the end of the First World War has begun a rampage in Wilson City, a jerkwater town somewhere in Eastern Europe. The investigation is being led by an inhomogeneous pair of detectives - a greenhorn and local police cadet named Eisner and an experienced FBI officer Food, who has been sent to Europe by US President Woodrow Wilson himself.
Wilson City
This simple story is the feature debut for well-known Slovak theater and television director Juraj Nvota. Set in a Slovak village at the turn of the last century, the story teems with passion, and repressed and hidden emotion. It delves into the search for identity, investigating both love and hatred, while dramatizing the tragic relationship between an adolescent girl (Tatiana Pauhofová) and her ambitious father (Ondrej Vetchý). Set against the striking though simple backdrop of a picturesque, even idyllic, landscape - one ostensibly cut off from any important historical, political, or social context whatsoever - the arrival of an unwanted individual evokes the onset of a cruel drama.
Cruel Joys
The principal of an elementary school calls a special parents meeting after it’s alleged that the seemingly empathetic and kindly-looking teacher Mrs. Drazděchová uses her students to manipulate their parents.
The Teacher
A Slovak film adaptation of the eponymous play Radošina Naive Theatre. Time stood still at a small and neglected Slovak railway station. The locals are stuck in place, know each other well and live according to learned rituals with no prospect of change any time soon. An unexpected impulse to the sleepy community is brought about by the discovery of the corpse of one of the cronies in the station toilets and the arrival of an energetic policewoman to investigate.
Konecná stanica
A selection of the best scenes and songs from the theatre's rich history, using STV archive material. Stanislav Štepka, an inseparable part of the naive scene and its "father", will accompany us through the 45-year history of the theatre and its characters from the village of Radošina.
Rodinné striebro
Television & Series (11)
The protagonist of Sex OClock is a teenager, Adam, who until now has been mainly concerned with his dancing career. But his father soon turns the whole familys life upside down and starts a whole chain of unexpected events.
