MÜPA CINEMA: Zoltán Fábri retrospective
Host: András Réz
Through the cooperation of the Palace of Arts and the Hungarian National Digital Archive and Film Institute (MaNDA), this new series will present the finest works of legendary Hungarian film directors. The first half of the year sees digital screenings of a selection of ten films from the life’s oeuvre of Zoltán Fábri.
Although the three-time Kossuth Prize-winner Zoltán Fábri occupied pride of place in the display case of Socialist cultural policy, his work as a film director (1952-1983) was defined by the banning of his screenplays, so that he conveyed his humanist message about the world, dictatorship and human relationships in a series of literary adaptations that reached an audience of millions. Although he was essentially not an innovator in terms of the language of film, few directors would have as many powerful sequences in a hypothetical reel of the great symbolic moments in modern Hungarian film – from the dramatic merry-go-round scene in Körhinta (1955) to the vacant building site in A Pál utcai fiúk (1968), and from the expressive stadium in Hannibál tanár úr (1956) to Zoltán Latinovits’s major absurdly packing boxes in Isten hozta, őrnagy úr (1969).
30 January 2012, Merry-Go-Round (Körhinta – 1955) – Ticketing
13 February 2012, Professor Hannibal (Hannibál tanár úr – 1956) – Ticketing
27 February 2012, Anna (Édes Anna – 1958) – Ticketing
12 March 2012, Two Half-Times in Hell (Két félidő a pokolban – 1961) – Ticketing
26 March 2012, Húsz óra (20 Hours – 1965) – Ticketing
9 April 2012, The Boys of Paul Street (A Pál utcai fiúk – 1968) – Ticketing
23 April 2012, The Tóth Family (Isten hozta, őrnagy úr – 1969) – Ticketing
7 May 2012, Anthill (Hangyaboly – 1971) – Ticketing
21 May 2012, The Fifth Seal (Az ötödik pecsét – 1976) – Ticketing
4 June 2012, Hungarians (Magyarok – 1977) – Ticketing
