My Brother Is Coming

Jön az öcsém, Hungarian silent film, 1919, by Michael Curtiz, Intertitles: Hungarian, Subtitles: English, 11'

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Directed by Michael Curtiz
Written by Antal Farkas  
Screenplay by Iván Siklósi
Music by Ferenc Darvas
Cast: Oszkár Beregi, József Kürti, Ilonka Kovács, Ferkó Szécsi

This propaganda film, which the leaders of the revolution ordered from the star director of Hungarian filmmaking of the period, was screened barely two weeks after the proclamationof the Hungarian Soviet Republic. Lines of revolutionary poetry serving as the foundation ofthe film occasionally appear as inserts between the frames. The brother, who is awaited byhis family coming from a typical working environment, initially fights on the front, iswounded and then captured. On escaping from prison, he becomes a revolutionary. Withdetermined face and while waving the banner, he becomes a preacher to the masses,leading to fists being thrust to the sky. Finally, he returns home and happily embraces hiswife, son and brother. The family watches the march of the victorious revolutionary crowdfrom a bourgeois milieu. The film was banned after the overthrow of the Republic ofCouncils, copies were confiscated and locked away in police archives.

Screening before the movie The Undesirable.