A HUNGARIAN VILLAGE – On the Field of God in 1972-73
Istenmezején 1972–73-ban
Hungary | 1974 | 78 min | bn | restaured copy
While some girls are playing and singing, some boys look at them from a distance, almost ashamed. Teenage is the age of promises and dreams that are quickly broken. Those girls and those boys discuss their mandatory choices: will they be able to continue their studies, or will they have to find a job? Will they have to get married and abandon their dreams? Their both shy and determined words, the faces explored by the camera, are forms of a journey performed through different existences: lives of women who try to affirm their identity and to fight the narrow-minded habits of a small village in the Hungarian countryside. Cinema as an exploration of life forms in which the inner gaze emerges through the attention for gestures and details, creating a both poetical and melancholy film. (d.d.)
Local Time
- Timezone: America/New_York
- Date: 05 Nov 2024
- Time: 9:00
Location
- Cinema Astra - Piazza Cesare Beccaria, 9 50121 Florence (FI)
Organizer
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Judit Elek
Judit Elek (born 10 November 1937) is a Hungarian film director and screenwriter. She directed 16 films. As a child, Judit survived the Second World War first in a sheltered house on Pozsonyi Street, Budapest, and then in the ghetto (November 1944 – January 1945). From 1956 to 1961, she studied at the University of Theatre and Film Arts in Budapest, in the class of film director Félix Máriássy. Her classmates included Pál Gábor, Imre Gyöngyössy, Zoltán Huszárik, Ferenc Kardos, Zsolt Kézdi-Kovács, János Rózsa, Éva Singer and István Szabó. During this time she was a founding member of the Balázs Béla Studio, a workshop for experimental film. In 1968, Elek made her first feature film, Sziget a szárazföldön (The Lady from Constantinople). From the 1980s onwards, she made historical films such as The Trial of Martinovics and the Hungarian Jacobins (1980). In the 1990s, she shot films with a Jewish theme like Tutajosok (Memories of a River, 1990) and To speak the Unspeakable: The Message of Elie Wiesel (1996).
