HOW LONG DOES A MAN LIVE?
Meddig él az ember?
Ungheria | 1967 | 56 min | bn | restaured copy
A film that is also a double portrait, or rather the intersection of two significant moments in the lives of an old retired labourer and a young man who moves from the countryside to the city for an apprenticeship in a factory. Judit Elek’s gaze accompanies the two characters showing their gestures, which convey seemingly opposed states of mind while they are actually connected by suggestive similarities. How does a man change after retiring from a life devoted to work? How does his worldview transform after making the radical decision of getting estranged from his family? What about desire, thoughts, aspirations? The film not only observes these changes but casts a sensitive, poetic gaze onto the fragility of existence, the uncertainty that dominates human beings’ lives, at any moment or age. (d.d.)
Local Time
- Timezone: America/New_York
- Date: 04 Nov 2024
- Time: 11:00
Location
- Cinema La Compagnia - Via Camillo Cavour, 50/R, 50121 Florence
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).
