HungariAnt, a young community based film distribution squad, has put together 10 Hungarian classics for you as a sidebar program to the
EuroGames 2012
. All features are rarely seen in anywhere these days, although they were kind of cornerstones in their own times. The selection sums up the past 40 something years and flags the most known directors from Hungary, with their less obvious works.
Movies on 28th of June:
4.00 pm: The Prefab People (Panelkapcsolat), Dir: Béla Tarr 1982/ 84 minutes
An early Bela Tarr film, showing some of what was to come, but overall feeling more like Cassavetes than the Tarr we know today. The film revolves around the lives of a married couple with a young baby and a child. He''s obviously not a perfect husband; he enjoys his beer, his friends, and wants more from his career. She is a caring mother, but perhaps a nagging and extremely needy wife. The Prefab People is certainly a sincere look at the average Hungarian family in the early eighties. Special mention at the Locarno Film Festival in 1982.
9.00 pm: Lovefilm (Szerelmesfilm), Dir: István Szabó 1970/ 123 minutes
It is a masterpiece of the young István Szabó from 1970, many years before worldwide-fame and Oscar Prize. A story of two young people in Hungary, Jancsi and Kata. First they are good friends, later lovers. Soon after the 56-Revolution Kata leaves Hungary, Jancsi stays there. After appr.10 years Jancsi is allowed to visit Kata in France, their love is reborn, but after a short, very happy period Jancsi has to return to Hungary and their love fades as years go by. Using flashback-system the director shows a human history of Hungary from the forties to the seventies as a mirror of the young lovers'' life.
