Beautifully restored silent films with live music accompaniment, one of the most touching masterpieces of the neorealism, two Czechoslovakian and Jugoslavian evergreens, historical portraits and biopics: here are many films to rediscover. Sándor Korda's, so Sir Alexander Korda's Man of Gold (Aranyember), made in 1918, is as stunning as a new film, De Sica's Bicycle Thieves is still staggering, The Firemen's Ball is an eternal parabola, I Even Met Happy Gypsies won the Grand Prix in Cannes not by accident, Endre Tóth, aka André de Toth directed a fine portrait of Ignác Semmelweis, born 200 years ago. Some of the films are introduced by directors and experts of partner Archives; they speak not only about the films, but about the restoration process as well.
Screenings:
Mania / Mania (1918)
Az aranyember / The Man of Gold (1918)
Kongói utazás / Voyage ou Congo / Travels in the Congo (1926)
Pandora szelencéje / Die Büchse von Pandora / Pandora’s Box (1929)
Egy pesti éjszaka / Retour à l’aube / She Returned at Dawn (1938)
Semmelweis / Semmelweis (1939)
Lady Hamilton / That Hamilton Woman (1941)
Biciklitolvajok / Ladri di biciclette / The Bicycle Thieves (1948)
Tűz van, babám! / Horí, má panenko / The Firemen’s Ball (1967)
Találkoztam boldog cigányokkal is / Skupljači perja / I Even Met Happy Gypsies (1967)
Playtime / Playtime (1967)
Joao és a kés / João en het mes / João and the Knife (1971)
Az ötödik pecsét / The Fifth Seal (1976)
Párbajhősök / The Duellist (1977)
A véres hölgy / Krvava pani / The Boody Lady (1980)
Amadeus / Amadeus (1984)
Cyrano de Bergerac / Cyrano de Bergerac (1990)
Sose halunk meg / We Never Die (1993)
Churchill and the Movie Mogul (2018)
A magyar film első aranykora: 1918 / The first golden age of Hungarian film: 1918
Filmek a Magyar Tengerről / Films about the ‘Hungarian Sea’
Főszerepben Budapest / Budapest in the lead role
Nem lehet megunni! – reklámblokk / Ads – we can’t get enough of them