Hungary

  • Péter Lichter – Light Sleep (Félálom) (2010)

    2001-2010EroticaExperimentalHungaryPéter Lichter

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    A boy’s sleep disturbed by the weaking, and the sound of reality. Found-footage montage with the chemical reactions of the celluloid on rare erotic s8 reels.

    23. Festival Premiers Plans d’Angers – free forms section (2011)
    MADATAC Video Art Festival, Madrid; 2011
    8. International Super8 festival – Szeged: Best hungarian film; Audience award; 2009
    41. Hungarian Film week: Award of the most promising young talent; 2010
    The Canton Palace Theatre First Annual International Film Festival – Ohio ; 2010
    Kalgart underground evening, Istambul; 2010
    An evening with Cinema 16,- The Kitchen, New York (2011)
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  • Márta Mészáros – Szabad lélegzet AKA Riddance (1973)

    1971-1980ArthouseDramaHungaryMárta Mészáros

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    Short Synopsis:

    Jutka, a young woman who works in a factory, falls in love with Andras, a university student. She pretends to be a student, to him and to his parents, and begins to live a lie. Finally she rebels against Andras and his demands and the social conventions that forced her to live a lie.

    NY Times Review, 1976 wrote:
    There may no longer be easily recognizable social classes in Communist Hungary, but there remain class distinctions that can be as malignant as any under the old order.

    “Riddance,” the 1973 Hungarian film directed by Marta Meszaros, is the rueful account of the love affair of a pretty, spirited young woman who works in a textile factory and a young university student whose parents are grossly more equal than other people. Having just emerged from the working class, his mother and father guard their bourgeois status not tenaciously, but primly, as if it were their bookcase full of fragile, unspeakably awful knickknacks.Read More »

  • Károly Makk – Egymásra nézve AKA Another Way (1982)

    1981-1990ArthouseDramaHungaryKároly Makk

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    Based on a popular, partly autobiographical novel, Another Way traces the developing relationship between Eva, a sparrowlike but determinedly uncompromising journalist from the provinces who is overtly lesbian, and Livia, a beautiful, restless fellow journalist unhappily married to an army officer.

    Director Karoly Makk’s considerable achievement here is his interweaving of two controversial themes–lesbianism and political repression–into the historic context of the still-sensitive period following the 1956 Hungarian uprising. Another Way skillfully treats the lesbian affair as a mirror for a wider discussion of public and private freedom.Read More »

  • György Fehér – Szürkület aka Twilight (1990)

    1981-1990CrimeGyörgy FehérHungary

    A former inspector on his last day with the department is called in to investigate a child murder. A suspect soon confesses to the crime, but knowing that the confession came only after the man was browbeaten in a relentless, 20-hour interrogation, the inspector’s keen police instincts tell him that the man is not the real murderer and that there is a serial killer at work, with the girl’s murder being related to other child murders that occurred in the area. However, he is alone in his assessment and the police close the case.Read More »

  • Béla Tarr – Utazás az alföldön aka Journey on the Plain (1995)

    1991-2000Béla TarrHungaryShort Film

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    Rarely seen Béla Tarr short, starring composer anc Sátántangó lead actor Víg Mihály. shot on many some of the same locations as Sátántangó.Read More »

  • Béla Tarr – Prologue (2004)

    2001-2010ArthouseBéla TarrHungaryShort Film

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    A short filme, 5 minutes, part of Visions of Europe.
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  • Zoltán Fábri – Édes Anna (1958)

    1951-1960DramaHungaryZoltán Fábri

    Plot Synopsis:
    This drama by Hungarian New Cinema director Zoltan Fabri is about class exploitation and murder, and is set in 1919. Anna (Mari Torocsik) is a shy and plain young woman who works as a maid in a privileged household. She is essentially a slave without any rights to speak of, and while she is being driven to the extremity of murder because of her brutal and uncaring treatment, the Hungarian communist revolution is building up steam in the background. The microcosm, in this case, is clearly meant to illustrate the impersonal and much larger picture.

    This film was nominated to Golden Palm.Read More »

  • István Szabó – Édes Emma, drága Böbe – vázlatok, aktok aka Sweet Emma, Dear Böbe – Sketches, Nudes (1992)

    1991-2000DramaHungaryIstván Szabó

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    Emma has moved to Budapest from the countryside with her good friend Böbe, and both of them have taken jobs as schoolteachers. However, their wages are pitifully small, and all they can afford in the way of housing is a shared room in a boarding house near the airport. The two women have settled into their lives, but it isn’t easy: Emma’s sexual affair with the school’s married principal is not emotionally satisfying, and Böbe’s penchant for picking up foreigners and bringing them back to their room for sex creates unpleasant situations, to say the least. At school, it used to be clear what the quickest route to success was, but now that the “communists” are no longer in power, a lot of the senior people are floundering in uncertainty. Eventually, Emma gains the courage to strike out on her own. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie GuideRead More »

  • István Szabó – Álmodozások kora AKA Age of Illusions (1964)

    1961-1970ArthouseDramaHungaryIstván Szabó

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    Quote:
    The Hungarian Age of Illusions was the first feature-film effort by writer/director István Szabó. Andras Balint plays an electrical engineer who hops from bed to bed, never making any lasting commitment with any one woman. All this changes when he falls in love with a local celebrity whom he sees on television (Ilona Beres). Trouble is, he’s never met her; like her other fans, he can assess her only by what he witnesses on the small screen. When he finally does touch base with the girl, he’s in for a few surprises-some pleasant, many others not so. Completed in 1965, Age of Illusions was not given widespread distribution until 1967.Read More »

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