Európa nem válaszol [Europe Doesn't Answer] (Géza von Radványi, 1941)
Aug
26
1939
DP: Rudolf Icsey.
Sodrásban [Current] (István Gaál, 1964)
Jun
24
Swim a Lap Day
Friends swimming in a summer haze. DP: Sándor Sára.
A character who is swimming on Swim a Lap Day (USA)
A group of friends go swimming to celebrate the start of summer vacation, and relish those final moments before adult responsibly begins. It is only much later when they realise that one of them is missing.
Két félidő a pokolban [Two Half-Times in Hell] (Zoltán Fábri, 1961)
Apr
20
A sour looking player with a flood of Nazis coming towards him. DP: Ferenc Szécsényi.
Amerikai anzix [American Torso] (Gábor Bódy, 1975)
Feb
12
Lincoln born
A soldier on a swing set, high up a tree. Other soldiers and civilians look on. Screenshot (and more information) via. DP: István Lugossy.
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.
*Using a technique described by Bódy as “light editing”, the footage looks worn and grimy.
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.
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.
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.
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.
“All I ask is that you step with me into the boundlessness, where constancy, quietude and peace, infinite emptiness reign.”
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.
– János Valuska
