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Amerikai anzix [American Torso] (Gábor Bódy, 1975)
Feb
12
Lincoln born
Yet another [American] Civil War, for Abraham Lincoln's birthday (1809).
Shot as fainted fragments* based on an Ambrose Bierce story, and outtakes from Karl Marx's diary, Amerikai anzix (litt. American Postcards) follows Hungarian-American cartographer Fiala, one of many of his countrymen fighting in the American Civil War.
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Мъжки времена [Mazhki vremena / Manly Times] (Eduard Sachariev, 1977)
Dec
23
Festivus
The men with a kidnapped woman, as was a custom in the region. DP: Radoslav Spassov .
A really silly tradition for Festivus.
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Könnyű testi sértés [Tight Quarters] (György Szomjas, 1983)
Oct
16
Csaba (Károly Eperjes) and Miklós (Péter Andorai) in their reluctantly shared apartment. Every frame is claustrophobically filled with people, including the television. DP: Ferenc Grunwalsky.
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Könnyű testi sértés [Tight Quarters] (György Szomjas, 1983)
Aug
19
nokedli
Éva (Mariann Erdős) samples nokedli. DP: Ferenc Grunwalsky.
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Talpuk alatt fütyül a szél [The Wind Blows Under Your Feet] (György Szomjas, 1976)
Mar
11
wine
German lobby card. Two rough-looking Hungarian cowboys drink from wooden beakers at a small, wooden table. The man who has the carafe, also has the knife. DP: Elemér Ragályi.
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Falfúró [Wall Driller] (György Szomjas, 1986)
Feb
17
Peeping through a window we see a woman at a gas stove, stirring something in a low enamel pan. She appears to speak to a large man with a big moustache who's standing close to her. DP: Ferenc Grunwalsky.
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Werckmeister harmóniák (Béla Tarr, 2000)
Sep
26
Shamu The Whale Day
A man in a dark hat and coat approaches the whale. The huge creature lays in an enormous open wooden crate in the middle of a town square. DPs: Patrick de Ranter, Miklós Gurbán, Erwin Lanzensberger, Gábor Medvigy, Emil Novák & Rob Tregenza.
“All I ask is that you step with me into the boundlessness, where constancy, quietude and peace, infinite emptiness reign.”
– János Valuska
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Az ötödik pecsét [The Fifth Seal] (Zoltán Fábri, 1976)
Aug
27
A group of men drink at a small table during a blackout while a new man enters the room. DP: György Illés.
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Könnyű testi sértés [Tight Quarters] (György Szomjas, 1983)
Jun
15
freebie: Flatmates Day
In a claustrophobically framed shot, two men and a woman – Csaba (Károly Eperjes), Miklós (Péter Andorai) and Éva (Mariann Erdőss) respectively – share a small kitchen. DP: Ferenc Grunwalsky.
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Valahol Európában / It Happened in Europe] (Géza von Radványi, 1947)
May
20
National Band Directors Day
The old man (Artúr Somlay) at his grand piano. One of the children, in rags, sits on top of it. The children cast for the film were actual, aimless orphans, causing trouble on set. DP: Barnabás Hegyi.
In the children's film Valahol Európában, a gang of plundering feral orphans hiding out in a ruined castle find an old disillusioned pacifist conductor (Artúr Somlay) who's waiting out the war.
