'My 20th Century' – A Wonderful First Film Among the Berlinale Classics
The audience of the 2017 Berlinale celebrated a new film by Ildikó Enyedi. She’s return after 18 years was magnificent. On Body and Soul won its first international award, the Golden Bear, in Berlin. After this film’s nomination for the Academy Awards, the Berlinale presents yet another of Enyedi’s works.
Rare gems of Hungarian Cinema – Restored film classics in Paris
Starting today, a total of eight Hungarian films that were restored by the Hungarian National Film Archive will be presented at Toute la Mémoire du Monde festival organised by La Cinémathèque française. For five days, the French Film Institute will showcase restored films.
The 1961 FIAF congress in Budapest
The 74th Congress of the International Federation of Film Archives (FIAF) is being staged in Prague between 22-27 April 2018. This is an appropriate moment to remind ourselves that many years ago, between 11-15 October 1961, Budapest, and more precisely the Hungarian film archive, hosted the 17th congress of FIAF.
Kadár, Ján (1918–1979)
Ján Kadár, the Hungarian-born, Czechoslovak film director who won an Oscar for his film The Shop on Main Street in 1966. The Film Archive Library, which became an independent institution in 1959, coincidentally also on 1 April, preserves a few of his personal papers that allow us to reconstruct the fate typical of a Central-Eastern European artist.
Hungarian Cinema at Cannes, 1968
It was exactly 50 years ago when the competition at the 21st Cannes International Film Festival was cancelled. The year was 1968.
The Dance – the first Hungarian film (1901)
The story, the creators and the reconstruction of the first Hungarian film, The Dance – an exhibition on the Day of Hungarian Film.
Merry-Go-Round
Black and white Hungarian drama, 1955, directed by Zoltán Fábri
Professor Hannibal
Black and white Hungarian drama, 1956, directed by Zoltán Fábri
Annecy
The Film Archive at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival.
Zoltán Fábri Collected Works II.
The second collection of the oeuvre series published for the 100th anniversary of his birth contains films primarily of the Modernist period made between 1959-1969, including 13 bonus features, contemporary as well as brand-new. The Brute, Twenty Hours, Late Season, The Boys of Paul Street, The Tot Family, Bonus features.
The Pagan Madonna
Colour crime-comedy, Hungary, directed by Gyula Mészáros, 1980. According to legend, Bud Spencer inspired István Bujtor.
A Very Moral Night
colour drama Hungary, directed by Károly Makk, 1977. Kelepei, the disreputable student, billets himself in a brothel and quickly becomes the girls’ favourite.
The Midas Touch
Colour drama, Hungary, directed by Géza Bereményi, 1988. Director and cinematographer audio commentary to this biographically inspired, European Film Award production.
The Upthrown Stone
1968, Hungary, Language: Hungarian, Romanian, Greek, Russian, Subtitles: English (84’); Screening: 09.05, 17.00, Toldi Cinema, Nagyterem. Tribute to Sándor Sára.
80 Hussars
1978, Hungary, language: Hungarian, subtitles: English (124’); Screening: 09.08, 17.00, Uránia National Film Theatre
Father
Hungary, 1966, Language: Hungarian, Subtitles: English (86’); Screening: 09.06, 18.15, Toldi Cinema, Kisterem
Love Film
1970, Hungary, Language: Hungarian, Subtitles: English (118’); Screening: 09.08, 14.30, Toldi Cinema, Nagyterem
Mephisto
1981, Hungary-West Germany-Austria, Language: Hungarian and German, Subtitles: English (140’); GALA SCREENING: 09.04, 19.00, Uránia National Film Theatre. Tribute to István Szabó, Special Guests: Klaus Maria Brandauer, Ildikó Bánsági, Lajos Koltai, David Robinson
Colonel Redl
1984, Hungary-West Germany-Austria-Yugoslavia, Language: Hungarian, Subtitles: English (144’); Screening: 09.05, 18.30, Uránia National Film Theatre
The Magic Flute
1975, Sweden, Language: Swedish, Subtitles: Hungarian and English (135’); Q&A with Katinka Faragó and István Szabó about Ingmar Bergman; GALA SCREENING: 09.07, 19.00, Uránia National Film Theatre. Faces. Q&A with Katinka Faragó and István Szabó about Ingmar Bergman
Searching for Ingmar Bergman
Ingmar Bergman – Vermächtnis eines Jahrhundertgenies, 2018, Germany-France, Language: English, German, French, Subtitles: Hungarian and English (99’); Screening: 09.07, 15.00, Toldi Cinema, Nagyterem
Goha
1958, France-Tunesia, Language: French and Arabic, Subtitles: Hungarian and English (83’); Screening: 09.08, 16.45, Toldi Cinema, Nagyterem
8 ½
1963, Italy-France, Language: Italian-French-English-German, Subtitles: Hungarian and English (138’); Screening: 09.07, 18.00, Toldi Cinema, Nagyterem
The Three-Hundred-Year-Old Man – Silent film from 1914 brought back to life
A long-forgotten photo album preserving scene stills of the film featuring young Hungarian aristocrats was brought back to life, and through this an 10-minute fragment of the originally 50-minute-long film has been reconstructed from stills.
