Tag: HUNGARY
December 25, 2023 / Sci-Fi

A halhatatlanság halála (1977) AKA The Death of Immortality / The End of Eternity

Somewhere outside of time as we understand it is the timeless realm known as Eternity, where a group of highly trained technicians drawn from all the Centuries under their control, have manipulated the Earth’s history to transform it into what they believe to be a perfect world, free from every disaster and hardship. But when Senior Computer Twissel sends a young Technician named Harlan to study the 480th Century in the company of a seductive woman, Harlan begins to suspect that Twissel may have some secret plan of his own which has something to do with the forbidden centuries before time travel was invented…

WATCH HERE<span class="entry-title-primary">A halhatatlanság halála (1977)</span> <span class="entry-subtitle">AKA The Death of Immortality / The End of Eternity</span>
November 18, 2023 / Arthouse

Werckmeister harmóniák (2000) AKA Werckmeister Harmonies

Werckmeister Harmonies, Béla Tarr’s transfixing follow-up to his seven-hour epic Satantango, is one of the Hungarian auteur’s signature achievements and a benchmark work of contemporary art cinema. Based, like Satantango, on a novel by László Krasznahorkai, the film is set in a dreary, wintry East European village, where the arrival of a strange travelling circus, and a sinister zealot known as The Prince, unleashes destructive forces that plunge the community into madness, murder, and revolution.

WATCH HERE<span class="entry-title-primary">Werckmeister harmóniák (2000)</span> <span class="entry-subtitle">AKA Werckmeister Harmonies</span>
November 18, 2023 / Animation

Holdmese (1975)

Directed by Cannes-award winner Sándor Reisenbüchler, Holdmese is a psychedelic animated short that mixes pulp sci-fi, Tibetan mysticism and Slavic folklore. Two scientists propose that the moon is an ancient, derelict spaceship, and go on a journey through deep space to discover its origins. The influence of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001 is clear, but Reisenbüchler’s collage technique is distinctively- and irreverently- his own. Holdmese stands as a brilliant forgotten work of Communist animation.

WATCH HEREHoldmese (1975)
November 18, 2023 / Animation

Az 1812-es év (1973) AKA The Year of 1812 (War and Peace)

September 11, 2023 / Animation

Isten veled, kis sziget! (1986) AKA Farewell, Little Island!

This ecologically-minded film builds on the contrasts of idyllic, untouched nature and small communities versus the world of rigid, faceless, gigantic machine monstrosities. This film that was created at the time of mass demonstrations against the levelling of Transylvanian villages and the barrage system on the Danube in the late 1980s was inspired by the novel Farewell to Matyora by Valentin Rasputin about a Siberian village flooded because of the construction of a hydroelectric power station.

WATCH HERE<span class="entry-title-primary">Isten veled, kis sziget! (1986)</span> <span class="entry-subtitle">AKA Farewell, Little Island!</span>
June 8, 2023 / Animation

A Nap és a Hold elrablása (1968) AKA The Kidnapping of the Sun and the Moon

Sándor Reisenbüchler’s animated film of the Ferenc Juhász poem is a magical mythological tale featuring numerous folklore symbols, in which due to the horrors of war and the evil of man the Sun and the Moon vanished from the sky. This visionary film singing of the universal struggle between fairy tale Good and Evil was considered by the director a sort of ars poetica. The film was shortlisted for an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 1969.

WATCH HERE<span class="entry-title-primary">A Nap és a Hold elrablása (1968)</span> <span class="entry-subtitle">AKA The Kidnapping of the Sun and the Moon</span>
May 17, 2023 / Arthouse

Te (1962) AKA You

May 16, 2023 / Animation

A rács (1970)

A prisoner attempts to have one forget the bleakness of prison existence through coloured crayon sketches drawn on the wall. However, the prison officer does not hesitate to stamp out even this small pleasure. Adapted from a press caricature, titled “Művészek/Artists” by György Várnai, which was published in 1966 in the popular satirical weekly “Ludas Matyi/Mattie the Gooseboy”.

WATCH HEREA rács (1970)