"Budapest Tales" is about a group of people (consisting of Szabo regular Andras Balint along with Ildiko Bansagi and Karoly Kovacs) who find a broken down tram while trying to go to the city. The people band together and try to get the tram back on the train tracks and head towards the city. Along this journey the passengers encounter many people who join them on the tram. What started out as only a handful of people has now turned into a small village. As the people travel on to the city each person takes on certain roles and through the course of time these roles will change. Some people fall in love, others out of love, and a few even die. But life goes on. The people keep the tram going hoping to reach Budapest.

This is a beautiful short documentary in three parts by Szabo Istvan:
- All Soul's day in Budapest. The event looks not as a gloomy one but more as a social rite where people meet, greet each other and children play;
- shooting of a wartime movie: extras prepare for a mass scene about Jews being deported after having the David's cross knitted on their coats. With a gay swingjazz soundtrack;
- archive editing of shooting taken during the rebuilding of Budapest bridges destroyed in WW II

The young priest goes to the barber where he meets temptation...
First movie of István Szabó (he was still a student - 3rd grade when he's directed it).

1988 film by István Szabó