Erzsébet Kútvölgyi

  • Béla Tarr – Macbeth (1983)

    1981-1990Béla TarrDramaHungaryTVWilliam Shakespeare
    Macbeth (1982)
    Macbeth (1982)

    In this powerful short film, the renowned William Shakespeare play is stripped down to the bare essentials, consisting of two lengthy shots.Read More »

  • Pál Sándor – Szabadíts meg a gonosztól aka Deliver Us from the Devil (1979)

    1971-1980ArthouseClassicsHungaryPál Sándor

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    A Hungarian masterpiece from Sándor Pál.

    The film’s story take place in Budapest, in 1944 in the very end of the 2nd WW. The film’s photographer, Elemér Ragályi won prize in Montreal in 1979. Montreal, 1979.

    PLOT DESCRIPTION
    In this very dark comedy, the loss of a coat from a dance hall cloakroom sets off a frantic search which results in widespread death and mayhem. It is 1944, and the loss of the coat represents the family’s loss of social standing, even during a time when everyone is suffering from the Nazi occupation. The whole family is called in to search for it, and a cross-section of the social chaos of the times is exposed during their search, which involves murders and more. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie GuideRead More »

  • 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 »

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