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Twenty-year-old Laszlo Sz., a driver’s mate steals the money he should have posted and wandering around Budapest, visiting bars, restaurants, pinball parlors and various other places trying to make the day different and meaningful.Read More »
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Narcisus and Psyche is based on a novel by Sandor Weores which was adapted by Vilmos Csaplar and director Gabor Body for a feature-length, 261-minute film. Borrowing the character of Psyche from mythology and placing her in Europe in the 19th century, the authors give her a “modern” life. She is an attractive young woman – and remains so throughout the film, in spite of one hardship after another. Psyche is libidinous, and her prurient interests shock her staid contemporaries. For reasons that the viewer is left to ponder, her life is almost a living punishment for her sexual laxity. Her child is taken away and killed, and although she is in love with her tutor, who has syphilis, she marries another man. She is suffering herself from some affliction, which leads to hospital scenes that are acerbic commentaries on 19th c. Western medicine. Psyche is about to leave for America with her husband, when the story takes another abrupt turn.Read More »
Tivadar Csontváry Kosztka the one-ideaed Hungarian painter was thought to be crazy by his peers, but he eventually became a significant artist.Read More »
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Somewhere in the remote region, the war ends. In the midst of ruined cities and houses in the streets, in rural hamlets, everywhere where people still live, are children who have lost their homes and parents. Abandoned, hungry, and in rags, defenseless and humiliated, they wander through the world. Hunger drives them. Little streams of orphans merge into a river which rushes forward and submerges everything in its path. The children do not know any feeling; they know only the world of their enemies. They fight, steal, struggle for a mouthful of food, and violence is merely a means to get it.Read More »
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Huszárik made two experimental shorts in 1971 and 1976, entitled Tisztelet az öregasszonyoknak/Homage to Old Ladies and A Piacere/As You Like It, respectively. The first is a homage to the old country widows whose husbands died in World War II and live their lives according to daily tasks and regulations until they die (which is mainly inspired by Huszárik’s own mother). The second is a study of death in its various forms, including a gypsy “merry funeral” and stock footage of bombings and concentration camps in WWII.Read More »
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This is a story of a man who wants to grasp and hold his beloved one by him and a woman who insists on that her love can’t be grasped; ‘she’ only can deliver hers. It has written Comedy, Romance etc… but, this movie doesn’t include anything funny, I believe.After I see the movie, I thought that love springs through a one’s heart and it has its own spirit. It doesn’t have to have any company. The matter is if it coincides its mate; that’s it. A must see masterpiece for lovers.Read More »
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This sensitive, expressionist film, the suprise hit of the 1982 Cannes and Taormina Film Festivals, examines Budapest’s troubled adolescents of the early 1960’s with humor and passion.Read More »
The wife of a political prisoner tends to her mother-in-law and keeps from the old woman the truth about her son, whom she believes is in New York making a film.Read More »
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Stock and Salamon have been partners for a while now. Their cabaret performance is a great success night after night. Being broadcasted on TV at New Years Eve is very important for both of them, too. Finally they can sing their song for the whole country: Nobody can do it alone.Read More »