Heroic Times (Daliás idök)

Name: Heroic Times (Daliás idök)
Duration: 1 h 24 min

1hr 24m

1hr 24m
3.8/5 (1.8K)
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The tragic medieval tale of a man of inhuman strength, fierce temper and a desire for noble knighthood. While on the run as a murderer, he finds new life as a… More Details »

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The tragic medieval tale of a man of inhuman strength, fierce temper and a desire for noble knighthood. While on the run as a murderer, he finds new life as a knight, only to face disillusionment, the horrors of war and ugly human vices.

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3.8

Apr 18, 2026

Jaw-dropping animation. How I’ve never heard of this is beyond me. I watched most of this in awe at not just the skill on display, but the painstaking dedication to this arduous art style. An overlooked gem.

293 Likes

ChrisStuckmann

Jun 15, 2025

"Lord, save my soul"I'm not about to shout from the rooftops that I've just watched some underseen masterpiece. But, for a 1984 Hungarian animated film, told completely in oil paintings come to life, this is a damn good watch all things considered. Certainly an interesting…

183 Likes

MrPPeeps

May 11, 2026

An incremental, jagged odyssey into oil paint inferno; haunting figures with evocative distorted expressions snapping into reality without warning from their static frames to explode into vivid colour as they journey and brawl for their glorious honour. Truly dreamlike in…

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Jay 👽
Sep 21, 2023

Tremendously brutal and hauntingly brilliant. The story of a man coming to terms with his place in this filthy twisted world of paintings and orchestral music. Where has this been my whole life?

145 Likes

HAL

Apr 16, 2026

procrastination is crazy instead of doing assignments you’ll be watching an hungarian animated film from 1983 made entirely with rotoscoped watercolours on youtube at 8pm

138 Likes

joshua

Nov 9, 2023

1st József Gémes In which a knight's decline into despair mirrors the end of the chivalric age, as cannons and guns render the bloody art of war mechanical. Heroic Times feels like an animated Lancelot du Lac, but it's also magisterially beautiful, designed to resemble a…

108 Likes

𝔻𝕠𝕔 𝕃𝕪𝕠𝕟
Aug 26, 2023

"Heroic Times" is a 1984 animated feature directed by József Gémes. A product of Hungary, the film is a stoic and epic tale of chivalry, based upon a series of poems from the mid to late 1800's entitled the "Todi trilogy" by János Arany. All this in turn is based upon a…

77 Likes

Blake Bergman "Various Spaghetti"

Nov 11, 2023

who else wants to touch oil painted grass with me

72 Likes

olivia ✨

Apr 23, 2026

HEROIC TIMES (Daliás idők, 1984) is a triumph. Typically, when one thinks of a traditional 2D cel animated film, the works of Walt Disney spring to mind, along with a few other notable animation studio features in the 1980s. Often seen as a kids medium, animated films have…

69 Likes

Jon Peters

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DelaPulp liked

Heroic Times

This film is worth watching just for the style. At its best it is gorgeous and energetic. But the style as well as the story I think struggles with consistency, where both are very potent at their best and very jarring at their worst. not perfect but a unique film experience

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Metzacan is "meh" on

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Artwork was very cool, 10 people to make 40,000 oil paintings for this movie. All the dialogue is in Hungarian and the plot was a little hard to follow.

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ReeceJW liked

Heroic Times

This is such a beautiful masterpiece, but the plot just felt slow and a bit too raw

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