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Newsletter of Magyar Filmunió · May 2004 – No. 3
CONTENTS
4
Film Week, Film Law,
Press
Cannes
6
Hungarian Cinema in
Cannes: 1947–2003
8
Hungarian Films in 2004
Kontroll
Little Apocrypha No. 2
10
EFP
11
Producers Network
11
The Media Plus Programme
of the European Union
12
Eurimages
12
News of Mokép
Hungarofilm Division
13
Comming Soon –
Films in Production
14
Impress
Dear Reader,
The third issue of our Newsletter has been published at a time which will be long remembered
by the profession and the whole country. This is the first year we present ourselves in Cannes as
a new member of the European Union with a new Film Law up our sleeve.
The importance of the moment is shown by the fact that for the first time this year we invite to
our pavilion in the International Village our partners and all those who are interested in the Hungarian
cinema, in professional issues and especially in the possibilities offered by the new Film Law.
It is a great pleasure for us that our presence is made even more significant by the works of young
and talented filmmakers who participate in the official selection of the festival. Kontroll directed
by Nimród Antal has already conquered the hearts of the Hungarian and foreign critics and was
the most popular Hungarian film in the Hungarian cinemas in 2003. Now it is in competition for
the “Caméra d’Or” as a first feature film in the official selection called „Un Certain Regard”.
Kornél Mundruczó, whose previous works are already internationally known, has made his diploma
film. His new short film Little Apocrypha No. 2 is in the selection of „Cinéfondation”.
The Hungarian MEDIA Desk started operation on 1st May within the organisational framework of
Magyar Filmunió. We sincerely hope that it will provide important assistance to the Hungarian
cinema professionals in order that they can join the European professionals as soon as possible.
It is already a tradition that in Cannes we participate in the initiative of European Film Promotion.
We are introducing the third young Hungarian producer at the events of „Producers on the Move”.
We are partners to „Producers Network”, a series of events to assist the work of producers from
all over the world.
We have plenty to do but we will always keep in mind that our most important line of activities is
the promotion of Hungarian films. We wish to get the audience of international festivals acquainted with a great number of new productions. You will find them on offer in the Hungarian pavilion. All visitors are most welcome.
Éva Vezér
General Manager
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Film Week, Film Law
At the beginning of February 2004 the 35th Hungarian Film Week showed almost
one hundred new Hungarian films produced last year. In the competition programme of the festival 16 features, 35 shorts and 42 documentaries were selected.
PRIZES OF THE 35TH HUNGARIAN FILM WEEK
Feature films:
Main Prize: After the Day Before by Attila Janisch
Best Director ex aequo: Zsuzsa Böszörményi for Guarded Secrets and
Benedek Fliegauf for Dealer
Simó Sándor Prize for Best First Film: Nimród Antal for Kontroll
Prize to the Director for Visual Expression: András Jeles for Joseph
and his Brothers
Special Prize of the Jury for Best Visual Design: Szabolcs Hajdu,
István Szaladják and Mónika Esztán for Tamara
Best Cinematography ex aequo: Gábor Medvigy for After the Day Before
and Gyula Pados for Kontroll
Best Screenplay: Benedek Fliegauf for Dealer
Best Producer (Main Prize): György Durst
Best Producer (Special Prize): BGB Film Production
Best Actress: Eszter Bagaméri for Guarded Secrets
Best Actor: Tibor Gáspár for After the Day Before
Best Supportng Actress: Kati Lázár for After the Day Before and Rosehill
Best Supporting Actor: Ervin Nagy for Guarded Secrets and Eastern Sugar
Best Editor: Ágnes Incze for Getno
Best Editor Special Prize: Steven Lovy for Mix
Best Sound: Tamás Zányi for Dealer
The Gene Moskowitz Prize awarded by the foreign critics:
Kontroll by Nimród Antal
The most successful Hungarian film in cinema in the year 2003:
Kontroll by Nimród Antal
People’s choice via Internet: Eastern Sugar by Ferenc Török
Shôrt films:
Best Short Film: Róbert Lakatos for Gen(i)us Diadolis
Experimental Short Film Prize: Kornél Mundruczó for Little Apokrypha No. 1
Special Prize: Ádám Császi and Zoltán Gábor Tóth for 7 Days
Special Prize: Károly Ujj Mészáros for The House
Dôcumentary films:
Main Prize: Gábor Zsigmond Papp for The School of the Empire
Special Prize of Duna Television: Ágnes Sós for Grandmother Teri
Best Popular Scientific Film: Júlia Szederkényi for The Gresham Palace
Prize „Equal Opportunities”: Judit Felvidéki for Little Lives
Best film in „Portrait” category: András Kisfaludy for Captain B. R.
Best film in „Experimental Documentary Film” category: Lehel Oláh for
Scavenging
Best film in „Film Sociography” category: Péter Hegedûs for Inheritance: A
Fisherman’s Story
Best Cinematography ex aequo: Arthur Bálint for Golden Hut and
Balázs Doboczi for The School of the Empire and Scavenging
Schiffer Pál Prize: Tamás Almási for From Home to Home
Special Prize of the Jury: Márton Szirmai for Hermit’s Masterpiece and
Bojána Papp for The TV and Me
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PRESS
Blanka Elekes Szentágotai:
Hungarians target foreign producers
during Film Week
Screendaily (2004 January)
Twenty-three new Hungarian features will be
presented at the annual Hungarian Film Week
to local audiences and the approximately 120
foreign guests invited to the country’s most
important film event.… A large number of foreign producers have also been invited. Thanks
to the Film Law, Hungary is hoping to lure some
major foreign productions that might otherwise
consider shooting in surrounding countries
such as Romania, the Czech Republic or
Bulgaria.
Eddie Cockrell: Kontroll
Variety (2004 February)
U. S.-born helmer Nimród Antal is well-traveled
in genre conventions and keeps a firm hand on
the throttle throughout the smartly-paced saga
taking place in the familial yet eccentric world
of ticket inspectors and their hostile populace,
a world where a hooded killer is running loose.
Crowd-pleasing, darkly comic joyride — top
Magyar earner of 2003 — is on track for a worldwide trip via well-timed stops at fests, arthouses, and ancillary.
Nick Holdsworth: Coalition touts
Hungarian film
The Hollywood Reporter (2004 February)
Organizers of a coalition of Hungarian filmmakers spanning three generations and led by iconoclastic director Béla Tarr said Monday that
they have joined forces to find ways to overcome
barriers to independent production here.
Eddie Cockrell: Dealer
Sophomore effort from Budapest-born Benedek
Fliegauf, whose eye-catching 2003 debut,
„Forest”, won prominent fest prizes, is sure to
polarize auds. Some will hail pic’s technical
proficiency and sheer length as a meditation on
the destructive power of drugs, while others may
summon scripter Alan Sharp’s quip that the
experience is like watching paint dry. It’s a pic
fests and distribs will clamor for — and distribs
then hold their breath over, as auds either reach
nirvana or experience one bummer of a trip.
Florence La Bruyere: The seventh
art is young again
Radio France Internationale (2004 February)
Young Hungarian filmmakers give us one sur prise after the other. They are thirty years old,
extremely talented and their first films are
invariably a success… The filmmakers of tomorrow are aware of the fact that their films will
– international press reactions
not be viable if they can only get through to
Hungarian audiences. Has a „new wave” been
born? Yes, in the sense that young filmmakers
have a common past and they often play a small
part in their friends’ films… Hollywood productions’d better watch out…
Nick Holdsworth about „Kontroll”
American-born Antal won the Simó Sándor Prize
for best first film for „Kontroll”, his unusual and
innovative story of metro ticket inspectors. The
film also picked up the Gene Moskowitz Prize
given annually by foreign critics visiting the festival. „Kontroll”, which tells the Orpheus-like
story of a character stuck in the underworld, was
the most successful domestic film released in
Hungary last year, notching up more than
150,000 admissions and more than $500,000 in
boxoffice receipts through the year’s end after
its late-November release.
Eddie Cockrell: After the Day Before
This is uncompromising, risk-taking contemporary Euro arthouse filmmaking at its best …
This unsettling item, which Janisch says is about
„the psychology of sin”, summons feelings and
images from work as diverse as Bram Stoker’s
„Dracula”, the canon of experimental icon Maya
Deren and Stanley Kubrick’s „The Shining”.
Jean Roy: Spring on the Danube
L’Humanité (2004 February)
The 2004 crop of Hungarian films is the best
that we have tasted in the past few years. … Yes,
it seems Hungarian film is undergoing some
serious renovation this year. The directors are
young; they have often made their first films
with different means and ambitions. The will
by no means make do with just telling a story.
They are reflecting upon the most „cinematic”
language possible to use.
Nick Holdsworth:
Hungary film law fuels hopes
Hungary’s new film law, which offers producers, investors and filmmakers a host of attractive tax incentives to shoot on location here,
could double the annual value of foreign co-productions to more than $80 million, supporters
of the new measures said Monday.
Derek Elley: Tamara
With his sophomore feature, „Tamara”, 31-year-old
Szabolcs Hajdu confirms himself as a stylish
young writer-director …. Mime-inflected, bizarre
modern fairytale about four people sorting out
their emotional makeup in an isolated farmhouse
is often as frustrating as it is mesmerizing ….
Festivals are the natural first platform for this
strikingly lensed but troublesome head-scratcher.
Blanka Elekes Szentágotai: Awards and festival invitations galore for Attila Janisch film
Screendaily (2004 February)
The new feature by Attila Janisch was the big
winner at last night’s awards’ ceremony that
closed the 35th edition of the Hungarian Film
Week. … The film was also much appreciated by
the attending foreign guests and is expected to
receive several festival invitations…
Joel Chapron: Hungary:
a law to lure investments
Le film francais (2004 March)
After over 10 years of waiting a new film law will
come into force in the spring. However, the long
expected reforms have already started to take effect.
Bobbie Whiteman, John Nadler:
Hungary rebates a lure to foreign filmmakers
The law, passed by Hungary’s parliament last
month, includes documentaries and animation
and may extend to TV projects.
The country will be even more of a bargain for
filmmakers beginning May 1, when it joins the
European Union and becomes eligible for EU
grants and subsidies.
Joel Chapron: Hungarian cinema
is waking up
Cahiers du cinema (2004 March)
The 35th Hungarian Film Week held in Budapest
between 27th January and 3rd February had a much
more optimistic atmosphere than the years before
due to the Film Law that was passed by Parliament
on 22nd December 2003. Its main objective is to
lure Hungarian and foreign investments to
Hungary.
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Ca n n e s
HUNGARIAN CINEMA IN CANNES: 1947—2003
Year
2003
2002
„The Festival is an apolitical no-man’sland, a microcosm of what the world
would be like if people could contact
each other directly and speak the same
language”
Jean Cocteau
The Cannes Film Festival
Over The Years
1939
The French Government decides to
hold an international film festival in
France. Cannes on the Cote d’Azur is
selected as its venue.
1946
On 20th September as the first important international cultural event of the
post-war period, the first Festival de
Cannes is opened.
2000
1998
1997
1996
1995
1993
1992
1991
1990
1989
1988
1987
1986
1962
For the first time in the history of
a major festival parallel with the
official programme of the Cannes Film
Festival the Syndicat français de la critique de cinéma — Union of French Film
Critics organise the Critics’ Week —
Semaine International de la Critique
where from that time on a selection of
short and feature films from all over
the world has been presented.
1984
6
Titel / Prize
Director
Gránátok / Grenades
A 78-as Szent Johannája /Joan of Arc on the Night Bus
Bibó breviárium / A Bibó Reader
Esô után / After Rain
Palme d'Or
Werckmeister harmóniák / Werckmeister Harmonies
Jónás / Jonas
Szenvedély / Passion
Szegénylegények / The Round-Up
Péter Politzer
Kornél Mundruczó
Péter Forgács
Péter Mészáros
Directors' Fortnight
Short Film Competition
Un certain regard
For the 50th
Anniversary of the Festival
Un certain regard
1960
Cannes Market — Marché du Film
opens along with the Festival for the
first time with a few dozen participants and a single screening room.
1968
„All films are born free and equal” —
with Pierre Kast’s motto and under the
leadership of Francois Truffaut and
Jean-Luc Godard parallel with the
official programme, the French
Directors’ Guild — Société des
Réalisateurs de Films (SRF) organises
Directors’ Fortnight — Quinzaine des
Réalisateures without a competition
and prizes, where a selection of the latest production in world cinema has
been presented without censorship or
diplomatic considerations.
Section
Critics' Week
1985
Un certain regard
Un certain regard
Un certain regard
Un certain regard
Feature Film Competition
Critics' Week
Un certain regard
Critics' Week
1983
Out of Competition
Out of Competition
1982
Critics' Week
1981
Opening Ceremony
Un certain regard
1980
1979
Un certain regard
Béla Tarr
Líviusz Gyulai
György Fehér
Miklós Jancsó
Witman fiúk / The Witman Boys
János Szász
Haggyállógva Vászka / Vaska Easeoff
Péter Gothár
Mondani a mondhatatlant… - Elie Wiesel üzenete /
To Speak about the Unspeakable - The Message of Elie Wiesel
Judit Elek
Szél / Wind
Marcell Iványi
Palme d'Or
A homok dala / Song of the Sand
Ferenc Cakó
A részleg / The Outpost
Péter Gothár
Gyerekgyilkosságok / Child Murders
Ildikó Szabó
FIPRESCI Prize
Az út / The Road
Nikolai Ivanov Neikov
A nyaraló / The Summer Guest
Can Togay
És mégis… / After All
Zsolt Kézdi-Kovács
Halálutak és angyalok / Paths of Death and Angels
Zoltán Kamondi
Céllövölde / Shooting Gallery
Árpád Sopsits
Yooth Jury's Certificate of Merit
Az én XX. századom / My 20th Century
Ildikó Enyedi
Caméra d'Or
Hanussen / Hanussen
István Szabó
Ab ovo - Homoknyomok / Ab ovo
Ferenc Cakó
Short Animation Category's Prize
Malom a pokolban / Mills of Hell
Gyula Maár
Hol volt, hol nem volt / A Hungarian Fairy Tale
Gyula Gazdag
Az utolsó kézirat / The Last Manuscript
Károly Makk
Ujjhullám / Finger Wave
Gyula Nagy
Visszaszámlálás / Countdown
Pál Erdôss
A szél / The Wind
Csaba Varga
Megfelelô ember kényes feladatra /
János Kovácsi
The Right Man For a Delicate Mission
Redl ezredes / Colonel Redl
István Szabó
Special Prize of the Jury
István, a király / Stephen, The King
Gábor Koltay
Eszkimó asszony fázik / Eskimo Woman Feels Cold
János Xantus
Napló gyermekeimnek / Diary for My Children
Márta Mészáros
Special "Grand Prix" of the Jury
Ajtó 8 / Door Nr. 8
Mária Horváth
Mária-nap / Maria's Day
Judit Elek
Adj király katonát / The Princess
Pál Erdôss
Caméra d'Or
Szerencsés Dániel / Daniel Takes a Train
Pál Sándor
FIPRESCI Prize
Visszaesôk / Forbidden Relations
Mandragora Prize to Mari Törôcsik
Holtpont / Dead End
Ferenc Rófusz
Daliás idôk / Herioc Times
József Gémes
Ad astra / Ad Astra
Ferenc Cakó
Megáll az idô / Time Stands Still
Péter Gothár
French Youth Minister's Special Prize
Egymásra nézve / Another Way
Károly Makk
Best Actress Prize to Jadviga Jankowska Cieslak, FIPRESCI Special Prize
Bumeráng / Boomerang
Zsuzsanna Zsáky
Szárnyas lények boltja / The Shop of Winged Creatures
László Halmai
Boldogtalan kalap / The Unhappy Hat
Mária Sós
Nárcisz és Psyché / Narcissus and Psyché
Gábor Bódy
Mephisto / Mephisto
István Szabó
Best Screenplay Prize, FIPRESCI Prize
Cserepek / Buffer Zone
István Gaál
A légy / The Fly
Ferenc Rófusz
Moto perpetuo / Moto Perpetuo
Béla Vajda
Palme d'Or
A tanú / The Witness
Péter Bacsó
Mention of the Ecumenical Jury
Vasárnapi szülôk / Sunday Daugthers
János Rózsa
Örökség / The Heiresses
Márta Mészáros
Magyar képek 1., 3. / Hungarian Pictures
Csaba Szórády
Csontváry / Csontváry
Zoltán Huszárik
Angi Vera / Angi Vera
Gábor Pál
FIPRESCI Prize
Magyar rapszódia, Allegro barbaro /
Miklós Jancsó
Hungarian Rhapsody, Allegro Barbaro
Life Achievement Award
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H UN G AR I AN
C IN E M A I N
Ca n n e s
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Year
Section
Titel / Prize
Director
1979
Un certain regard
A kedves szomszéd / The Nice Neighbour
Egy erkölcsös éjszaka / A Very Moral Night
Új lakók / New Tenants
Kilenc hónap / Nine Months
FIPRESCI Prize
Budapesti mesék / Budapest Tales
Küzdôk / Fight
Palme d'Or
Déryné, hol van? / Mrs. Déry, Where Are You?
Best Actress Prize Mari Törôcsik
Labirintus / Labyrinth
Babfilm / Scenes with Beans
Szerelmem, Elektra / Elektreia
A csodálatos mandarin / The Miraculous Mandarin
A fából faragott királyfi / The Wooden Prince
Macskajáték / Catsplay
Jócselekedetek / Good Deeds
Fotográfia / Photography
Petôfi '73 / Petôfi '73
Az 1812-es év / The Year 1812
Jury's Prize
Még kér a nép / Red Psalm
Director's Prize
Büntetôexpedíció / Punitive Expedition
Staféta / Relay Race
Égi bárány / Agnus Dei
Szerelem / Love
Special Prize of the Jury, Prize of OCIC
Magasiskola / The Falcons
Jury's Prize
Sziget a szárazföldön / The Lady from Constantinople
Sirokkó / Winter Wind
Fényes szelek / The Confrontation
Feldobott kô / The Upthrown Stone
Meddig él az ember? I-II. / How Long Does Man Matter?
Csillagosok, katonák / The Red and the White
Tízezer nap / Ten Thousand Suns
Director's Prize
Napló / Diary
Gyerekbetegségek / Grimace
Károly Makk
Líviusz Gyulai
Márta Mészáros
1978
1977
1976
1975
1974
1973
1972
1971
1970
1969
1968
Out of Competition
Out of Competition
Out of Competition
Critics' Week
Critics' Week
Critics' Week
1967
Critics' Week
1966
1965
1964
1963
1962
1961
1960
1959
1958
1957
1956
1955
1954
1951
1947
Szegénylegények / The Round-Up
Az életbe táncoltatott leány / Eternal Dance
Filmtechnicans' Association's Prize
Nyitány / Overture
Grand Prize, Filmtechnicans' Association's Prize
Pacsirta / Skylark
Best Actor Prize to Antal Práger (ex aequo)
Kedd / Tuesday
1, 2, 3... / 1, 2, 3…
Kertes házak utcája / A Cosy Cottage
Te / You
Special Mention
Szenvedély / Passion
Dúvad / The Brute
Párbaj / Duel
Jury's Special Prize
Ragadozó növények / Predatory Plants
Édes Anna / Anna
A telhetetlen méhecske / The Greedy Bee
Vasvirág / The Iron Flower
Egy másodperc története / History of a Second
Két vallomás / Two Confessions
Bölcsôk / Cradles
Körhinta / Merry-Go-Round
Kati és a vadmacska / Kati and the Wild Cat
Cigánytánc / Gipsy Dance
Liliomfi / Liliomfi
Aggtelek / Aggtelek
Kiskrajcár / Penny
Virágos Kalocsa / Flowery Kalocsa
Aquarium / Aquarium
A kékvércsék erdejében /
In the Forest of the Red-Footed Falcons
Különös házasságIstván / A Strange Marriage
Egy kerecsensólyom története / Gerfalcon Story
Tanítónô / The School-Mistress
István Szabó
Marcell Jankovics
Gyula Maár
Andreas Kovács
Ottó Foky
Miklós Jancsó
Miklós Szinetár
Ádám Horváth
Károly Makk
Béla Vajda
Pál Zolnay
Ferenc Kardos
Sándor Reisienbüchler
Miklós Jancsó
Dezsô Magyar
András Kovács
Miklós Jancsó
Károly Makk
István Gaál
Judit Elek
Miklós Jancsó
Miklós Jancsó
Sándor Sára
Judit Elek
Miklós Jancsó
Ferenc Kósa
1972
The compilation of the programme is
decided by a selection committee for
the first time, replacing the practice
of countries sending films to the festival based on their own judgment.
1998
With Abbas Kiarostami and Martin
Scorsese as honorary president,
Cinéfondation, a new official section
of the festival is opened which provides forum for young talents from
film school of the world to introduce
themselves.
2000
Cinéfondation opens its Résidence in
Paris where each year 12 young film
director receives help to produce
his/her first or second feature film.
2004
The 57th Cannes Film Festival is one
of the most important events of the
profession. In its official sections
over 50 films from all over the world
will be screened while at Marché du
film several hundred films will be presented to distributors.
György Kovásznai
Ferenc Kardos János Rózsa
Miklós Jancsó
Tamás Banovich
János Vadász
László Ranódy
Márk Novák
Gyula Macskássy György Várnai
Tamás Fejér
István Szabó
József Nepp
Zoltán Fábri
Gyula Macskássy
Ágoston Kollányi
Zoltán Fábri
Gyula Macskássy
János Herskó
Ágoston Kollányi
Márton Keleti
Ágoston Kollányi
Zoltán Fábri
Ágoston Kollányi
Tamás Banovich
Károly Makk
Ágoston Kollányi
Márton Keleti
Vince Lakatos
Ágoston Kollányi
István Homoki-Nagy
Márton Keleti
István Homoki-Nagy
Márton Keleti
The môst significant prizes ôf
the festival
• The Palme d’Or for the best feature
• The Grand Prix — for the film that
shows the most originality
• An award for the Best Performance
by an Actress
• An award for the Best Performance
by an Actor
• An award for the Best Director
• An award for the Best Screenplay
• Jury Prize for a feature film of the
competition
• The Palme d’Or for the best
short film
• Jury Prize for a short film of
the competition
• Camera d’Or for the best first
feature film
• FIPRESCI Prize
• Ecumenical Jury’s Prize
• Prix de la Jeunesse
• Prix Education National
• Filmtechnicans’ Association’s Prize
◗ We thank Lia Somogyi for her generous help.
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GARIAN FILMS IN 2004 • HUNGARIAN FILMS IN 2004 • HUNGARIAN FILMS IN 2004 • HUNGARIAN FILMS IN 2004 • HUNGARIAN FILMS IN 2004 • HUNGA
KONTROLL
Nimród Antal
Born in 1973 in Los Angeles. He started his film studies at the Film
Workshop of Pasadena Art Center in
1991. After moving to Hungary he studied at the Hungarian Academy of
Drama and Film and graduated as a
film director in 1995. Kontroll is his
first full-length feature film.
Filmography:
1992: Shooting Clown /
Bohóclövészet (s)
1999: Insurance / Biztosítás (s)
2003: Kontroll (f)
2003, feature film, 35mm, 1:1,85,
Dolby SR, DTS, colour, 106 min
Screenplay: Nimród Antal
Photography: Gyula Pados
Music: NEO
Editor: István Király
Art director: Balázs Hujber
Costumes: János Breckl
Sound: Róbert Juhász
Cast: Sándor Badár, Eszter Balla,
Sándor Csányi, György Cserhalmi,
Enikô Eszenyi, Lajos Kovács,
János Kulka, Zsolt László,
Bence Mátyássy, Zoltán Mucsi,
Zsolt Nagy, Csaba Pindroch,
Péter Scherer, Gyôzô Szabó
Production company: Café Film,
Bonfire
Production manager: Károly Fehér
Producer: Tamás Hutlassa
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HUNGARIAN FILMS IN 2004
NIMRÓD ANTAL
First Feature Film
Who hasn’t felt at a given moment at some point during their
shorter or longer life that they wanted to step out of their usual
environment. To hide away from the world, to escape from the
past, themselves and the present. To disappear from the face of the
earth. Bulcsú aged twenty somethin has already made this step….
This film is a special mixture of tale and reality, down below,
under the ground. The story is about a strange young man, Bulcsú,
his fellow inspectors, the management of the Underground company, a rival ticket inspection team, the Roadrunner, the Shadow,
about racing along the tracks…and perhaps
about love and starting anew.
It is about the mostly comical relationships
between passengers and ticket inspectors
everybody is familiar with.
www.kontrollfilm.hu
Prizes:
Budapest, Hungarian Filmcritics’ Prizes 2004
Best Director: Nimród Antal
Best Cinematography: Gyula Pados
Best Actor: Sándor Csányi
Best Supporting Actor: Sándor Badár, Zoltán Mucsi,
Zsolt Nagy, Csaba Pindroch
Budapest, 35th Hungarian Film Week 2004
Sándor Simó Prize for Best First Film
Best Cinematography: Gyula Pados
Foreign Critics’ Gene Moskowitz Prize
The most successful Hungarian film in cinema of the year 2003
ARIAN FILMS IN 2004 • HUNGARIAN FILMS IN 2004 • HUNGARIAN FILMS IN 2004 • HUNGARIAN FILMS IN 2004 • HUNGARIAN FILMS IN 2004 • HUNGAR
HUNGARIAN FILMS IN 2004
KORNÉL MUNDRUCZÓ
„Now when he had left speaking, he said unto Simon,
Launch out into the deep, and let down your nets for a draught.
And Simon answering said unto him, Master, we have toiled
all the night, and have taken nothing: nevertheless at thy
word I will let down the net.”
Luke 5, 4–6
LITTLE
APOCRYPHA NO.2
KornélMundruczó was born in 1975 in
Budapest. In 1998 he graduated from
the Hungarian Academy of Drama and
Film as an actor and in the same year he
began his studies as a film director.
During his years at the university he
made several films which won many
recognitions both in and out of Hungary.
His short films won awards in Oberhausen, Krakow, Ludwigsburg, Imola
and St. Petersburg among other places.
His film Pleasant Days won the Silver
Leopard in Locarno in 2002 and other
prizes in Brussels, Sofia and Angers. In
2003 Joan of Arc on the Night Bus was
invited into Directors’ Fortnight in
Cannes. Last year his film-plan Delta
was invited to the Festival de Cannes
Résidance. His diploma film Little
Apocrypha No. 2 is the first Hungarian
participant of Cinéfondation.
filmography:
2000: This I Wish and Nothing More /
Nincsen nekem vágyam semmi
2001: Day after Day / Afta (s)
2002: Pleasant Days / Szép napok
2003: Little Apocrypha No. 1 /
Kis Apokrif No. 1 (s)
2003: Joan of Arc on the Night Bus /
A 78-as Szent Johannája (s)
2004: Little Apocrypha No. 2 /
Kis Apokrif No. 2 (s)
2004, short, 35mm, 1:2,35,
Dolby SR, colour, 22 min
Screenplay: Kornél Mundruczó,
Viktória Petrányi
Photography: Balázs Révész
Sound: Gábor Balázs
Music: Zsófia Tallér
Editor: Tamás Kollányi
Production assistant: Eszter Gyárfás
Cast: Orsi Tóth, Pavel Iacouvici,
Nicolae Nicola, George Savencu
Production company: ProtonCinema
Production manager: Erwin Schmidt
Producer: Viktória Petrányi
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The creativity and talent „behind-the-scenes” in any filmmaking
effort is directed by the producer.
These hard-working professionals, who must be part-financial
expert, part-creative genius and part-psychologist, are often over-looked
in the glamour and hype of a world-class event such as the Cannes Film Festival.
EFP took on the task of directing the spotlight towards producers for the first time in 2000,
when the organisation designed and presented a platform of activities focusing on these up-and-coming
„movers and shakers”. Under the name „Producers on the Move”, 75 of Europe’s most talented young producers have been introduced to the industry at large during the Cannes Film Festival and Market over
the past years.
As a member of the EFP Hungary has participated in the Producers on the Move programme at the Cannes Film
Festival since 2002:
2002: Csaba Bereczki — producer of Hukkle (György Pálfi),
European Film Academy 2002, European Discovery — Fassbinder Award
2003: Viktória Petrányi — producer of Joan of Arc on the Night Bus (Kornél Mundruczó),
Cannes 2003, Directors’ Fortnight
2004: Gábor Forgács
„It is a great honour and an exceptional opportunity for me to represent the Hungarian producers at the 57th Cannes
Film Festival. I have worked on the crew of a number of feature, television and commercial films as a producer, director and cinematographer and I am very happy that I can talk about my plans for the future in front of an audience consisting the greatest talents of the profession. We are planning to shoot several films with HCC Media Group and Parabel
Studio in the coming 1–2 years. They are youthful and dynamic productions like Shakedown, The House of Stormwhich
has a special atmosphere and is based on a psycho-drama by András Réz, I am participating in the production as both
producer and director, or adventure films of historical inspiration like Budapest Rose and The Unbeatable. This fall
we will start shooting City of Decay with myself as the director of photography and I will be the producer of another
production based on the hit novel Curva Pericolosa by Béla Ernyei, the well known Hungarian actor. I would like to
take this special occasion to promote Hungarian cinema, which is aspiring onto even higher levels with the assistance
of the newly passed Film Law, among producers and distributors who have come here from all over the world.”
Selected Films:
1994: John Bosco’s Rwanda — documentary of the war as DP
1994: Once upon a time … — documentary of gipsy musicians in
USA as DP & Director
1995: Aboriginal Life in Australia — documentary as DP & Director
2000: Pizzaman / Pizzás — feature film as DP & Producer
2001: I spy — (Producer: Andy Vajna, Mario Kassar)
as camera operator
2002: Underworld — as camera operator
Background
Born in 1969, Gábor Forgács graduated from the Film & Television School at Mafilm (OPAKFI) in 1992 and participated in masterclass courses led by Dean Candy, Billy Williams, Vilmos
Zsigmond and Laszlo Kovacs between 1993 and 1997. He studied at the American Film
Institute (AFI) between 1996 and 1997 and graduated with a diploma as director of photography.
During his time at the AFI, Gábor worked in the digital effects workshops and then became
a camera operator and camera assistant for Vilmos Zsigmond on several commercials as
well as the feature Playing By Heart (1998).
In the 1990s, Gábor worked as a DoP or DoP/director on documentaries about such subjects
as Aboriginal life in Australia, volcanoes in the Kamchatka and the war in Rwanda, and
served as a director of photography and producer between 1998 and 2000 on productions
at Extreme Rabbit Film, including György Balogh’s feature film Pizzaman (2000).
In 2001, Extreme Rabbit Film divided into two companies, with Gabor becoming the CEO of
Rabbit Film. He is also a member of the board of directors at his other company Parabel
Studio which now collaborates on a permanent basis with HCC Happy Crew Company on
the production of feature films.
At the moment, HCC has a number of international co-productions in preparation, ranging
from the thriller The House Of The Storm through the action-adventure movie Shakedown
to the futuristic drama City Of Decay. In addition, Gabor is working on the development of
the World War 2 gangster movie Budapest Rose, the psychological drama Curva Pericolosa
and The Unbeatable, a historical drama set in late 19th century Hungary.
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H U N G A R I A N P RO D U C E R S
IN C ANNES
Péter Miskolczi — Hungarian
Independent Producers Association,
Eurofilm Studio
Áron Sipos — Hungarian Producers
Association, Focus Film
Csaba Bereczki — Mondial Film
József Berger — Mythberg Films
László Berta — Panoráma Film
József Cirkó — HCC Media Group &
Parabel Studio
András Dávid — Kép-Árnyék Film
Production Company, Duna Workshop
of Duna Television
György Durst — Kép-Árnyék Film
Production Company, Duna Workshop
of Duna Television
Gábor Forgács — HCC Media Group &
Parabel Studio
Tamás Hutlassa — Café Film
Andrea Kakuk — EU Top
László Kántor — New Budapest
Filmstudio
György Kárpáti — Tivoli-Filmproductions
Zsuzsa Lakatos — Panoráma Film
Márta Laluk — EU Top
András Muhi — Inforg Studio
Viktória Petrányi — ProtonCinema
Enikô Szabó — Felhôc Production
Dénes Szekeres — Tivoli-Filmproductions
Attila Várai Jeges — JAVA Film Hungary
20 Hungarian producers in Producers Network –
Le Réseau des Producteurs
The Festival de Cannes and the Marché du Film are launching a specific
program for producers: Producers Network — Le Réseau des
Producteurs. A set of concrete and efficient means and services to help
producers in Cannes to mix and thus stimulate the search for new partners: daily breakfast with thematic tables, consultations with a team
of consultants, the creation of specific information tools… a series of
initiatives designed to enable producers from all over the world to build
up their international network of contacts and partners.
Breakfasts at the Plage des Palmes
Every day breakfasts reserved for producers is hosted by a dozen consultants together with numerous special guests (distributors, sales people, financiers, experts, festival organizers…). These daily meetings,
based on different themes each time (focus on two countries or regions,
finance, writing, documentaries, strategies to undertake with festivals,
international sales…) stimulate contact among producers from all over
the world. The breakfast will be held from 9am to 11am every day at the
Plage des Palmes.
In 2004 Magyar Filmunió is an official partner of Producers Network
which makes it possible for us to host one of the meetings at the
Producers’ Breakfasts on May 17th at 9am with the title „The New Film
Law in Hungary”.
The MEDIA Programme of the
European Union
On 1st May 2004 Hungary officially joined
the Media Plus Programme of the European
Union which provides supports for the
European audiovisual industry. The original
programme planned for 5 years has been
extended until the end of 2006 because of the
enlargement of EU and the original budget of
400 million ¤ was increased to 513 ¤.
Information about the call for proposals and
initiatives of the Programme will be available
form June also in Hungarian on the website
of Media Desk.
www.mediadesk.hu
MEDIA Plus Programme — Call for proposals:
Deadlines:
DEVELOPEMENT
86/2003 (Single Projects and State Founding)
DISTRIBUTION
92/2003 (Selective support for European
distribution companies)
95/2003 (Television broadcasting)
Application forms can be downloaded
from the homepage of Media+ Programme:
http://europa.eu.int/comm/avpolicy/
media/index_en.html
More information:
Media Desk Hungary
Magyar Filmunió
Tel: +36 1 351 77 60, 351 77 61
Fax: +36 1 352 67 34
Email: [email protected]
www.filmunio.hu
31st May 2004
10th July 2004
1st December 2004
16th June 2004
3 November 2004
rd
PROMOTION
75/2003 (New way of distributing European
content via personalized services)
PILOT PROJECTS
14/2004
3rd May 2004
24th May 2004
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The Board of Directors of EURIMAGES held its 89th Board Meeting
in Vienna between 18—21 April 2004.
The following decisions were made regarding Hungarian projects:
PRODUCTION:
Taxidermy / Taxidermia (Eurofilm Stúdió)
200 000 ¤
DISTRIBUTION:
Le temps de loup (Budapest Film)
Jeux d’enfant (Budapest Film)
L’anatomie d’enfer (Atlantis)
Buddy (Cirko Film)
Se til veinstre (Cirko Film)
Das Fliegende Klassenzimmer (Best Hollywood)
Je reste (Best Hollywood)
Guarded Secrets / Mélyen ôrzött titkok (Moebius Ass.)
Happy Birthday! / Boldog születésnapot! (Moebius Ass.)
Dad Goes Nuts / Apám beájulna (S. C. Interfilm Rom)
Bad Guys / Rosszfiúk (S. C. Interfilm Rom)
ALTOGETHER:
8000 ¤
6000 ¤
6000 ¤
6000 ¤
6000 ¤
6000 ¤
6000 ¤
8000 ¤
6000 ¤
6000 ¤
6000 ¤
270 000 ¤
Hungarian Representative of Eurimages
Mokép
Hungarofilm Division
Like every year the success of the Hungarian Film Week had
a great impact on our turnover and efficiency at the beginning of 2004 as well. The Hungarian and foreign film industry people form more or less the same opinion on films that’s
why there is a great interest in the award winning titles among
our foreign clients. After the Day Before, Tamara, Dealer and
Guarded Secrets received the greatest recognition mainly
from buyers of public television companies that we invited
for the occasion.
Every year we invite a number of our clients to the Hungarian
Film Week. We consider this an investment because our guests
tend to buy films by the package during the Film Week.
Contrary to the great success of Hukkle, the new releases only
have had a few sales. Even public televisions received each film
differently. We would like to mention two of our most
significant business deals that were concluded with the
Turkish and Bosnia television companies. Besides Hukkle, the
Turks bought Sleepwakers, Vagabond, Smouldering Cigarette,
Blindguys and Light Falls On Your Face. The Bosnian
Television in addition to Hukkle, Sleepwakers and Smouldering
Cigarette bought Down By Love, Bizarre Romance, The Last
Blues, Cloud Above the River Ganges and Jadviga’s Pillow. We
sold Forest to the Romanian and Croatian televisions so far.
Wake Up Mate, ... will be soon broadcasted by Croatian
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News
Television. The Japanese picked Winning Ticket which will be
available both in cinema and on DVD.
At the Berlin film Festival films distributed by HUNGAROFILM
DIVISION were available for screening at the stand shared with
the Magyar Filmunió and were received with great interest.
Dealer directed by Benedek Fliegauf which won the Berliner
Zeitung’s Reader’s Prize to the Best Film of Forum received special attention from our buyers. The first agreement has been
signed and as a result the title will be released in Greece together with Fliegauf’s first feature film, Forest.
Our business transactions concluded in Cannes primarily
depend on the films participating at the festival have a key
importance in the life of HUNGAROFILM DIVISION as they
give 25–50 percent of our yearly turnover. The interest in
Hungarian films has been tremendous since the announcement of the new Hungarian Film Law and is expected to
increase even more after joining the European Union in May.
We hope the number of buyers grows and more and more
Hungarian films conquer the international market.
Suzanne Szigeti
Director of Sales and Acquisitions
Masha Muszely
Assistant to Director of Sales and Acquisitions, PR
COMMING SOON
Our list is based on the information provided by the production companies.
Films in
Production
Diana Groó
Csoda Krakkóban / A Miracle in
Cracow
Producer: Gábor Garami, Production
company: Cinema Film, Katapult Film
— Studio Tor (Poland), Chaplin Film
Shooting: September 2003—
April 2004, Cracow, Budapest
Expected completion: April 2004
It is a story of PIOTR, a young Jewish man
who was raised up to the age of 10 in
Budapest by his beloved grandmother. An
Eastern European story spiced with mystique.
Attila Mispál
A fény ösvényei / Paths of Light
Producer: Péter Miskolczi, Production
company: Eurofilm Studio
Shooting: November 2003—
May 2004, Budapest, Kecskemét
Expected completion: August 2004
Two parallel stories are linked in this film:
two terrible losses and two parallel healings.
Krisztina Deák
Miskolci Boni és Klájd / Who Hell Is
Boni and Klájd
Producer: Gábor Garami, Production
company: Cinema Film
Shooting: August 2003—
January 2004, Miskolc
Expected release: October 2004
Cinema adaptation of an actual crime story
based on a novel published by Magvetô
Publishing Company.
István Szabó
Júliának lenni / Being Julia
Producer: Lajos Óvári, Robert Lantos,
Production company:
Movie SPC, I. S. L. Film
Shooting: June—August 2003, Budapest,
Kecskemét, London
Expected completion: autumn 2004
The film takes place in 1938 in England.
Protagonist is the celebrated actress in her
early forties, whose professional and private successes we are witnessing in the film.
Márta Mészáros
A temetetlen halott — Nagy Imre
naplója / The Unburied Man — The
Diary of Imre Nagy
Producer: Attila Csáky, Michal
Kwiecinski, Igor Hudec, Production
company: Cameofilm, AKSON STUDIO
(Poland), ARS MEDIA (Slovakia)
Shooting: July—December 2003, Hungary,
Slovakia
Release: 23rd October 2004
A bad joke of history is that while Imre
Nagy’s name is known and respected in the
whole world, in his homeland his role is still
debated. They often judge him for reasons
of petty daily political fights. This film tries
to cast a new light on the fate of the Prime
Minister, Imre Nagy, who died as a martyr.
Gábor Forgács
Szelek háza / The House of Storm
Producer: József Cirkó, Production
company: HCC Media Group & Parabel
Studio
Shooting: from October 2004, Budapest,
Hungary
Expected completion: November 2004
Intimate film with a few characters. It
builds upon inner experiences, memories,
almost creating a subjective point of view.
The film prefers extreme close-ups, especially for those objects, where a scent
impression is important, relevant and
possible.
Krisztina Goda
CSAK SZEX és más semmi / The Itch
Producer: Gábor Kálomista, Production
company: Megafilm
Shooting: June—July 2004
Expected completion: December 2004
What should a woman do if she is over thirty, is fed up with men and is grabbed by an
insatiable desire to have a baby?… The
answer will be revealed in this riveting, nice
film full of acrid humour, which is not only
for singles.
Bertalan Bagó
Vadászat angolokra / Hunting for
Englishmen
Producer: László Schmidt, Production
company: Vid Art Studio, TVP SA
(Poland)
Shooting: June—August 2004, Hungary:
Budapest, Poland: Krakow, Warsaw
It is 1839. The characters in our story are
deputies in the Hungarian parliament of the
period, the Pressburg Diet. They are gathered for a hunt. Other members of the party
include Whitewell, an English engineer living in Pressburg, and a beautiful Polish girl,
who has fled the suppression of the revolution in her country. Whitewell, an idealist,
inventor and adventurer, has a secret
romantic affection for the young lady, but
some say the real reason for his presence is
to send covert reports back to British
Foreign Secretary Lord Palmerston.
Péter Bergendy
Állítsátok meg Terézanyut! / Stop
Mommy Theresa!
Producer: István Bodzsár, Production
company: Unió Film, RTL Klub
Expected completion: June 2004
Expected release: December 2004
An adaptation of Zsuzsa Rácz’s top list
book Stop Mummy Theresa!
Roland Vranik
Fekete Kefe / Capra Hircus
Producer: Katalin Krammer,
Production company: Strawberry
Films
Shooting: from January 2004, Budapest,
Tatabanya, Tata
The topic of our film is the lost generation
of our present, those 25–35 year old people
who grew up after the political changes.
Three friends work as chimney sweepers,
a theologian, a painter and a sculptor.
Róbert Koltai
Világszám — Dodó és Naftalin /
Colossal Sensation — Dodo and
Naphthalene
Producer: Gábor Koltai, Production
company: Filmsziget
Shooting: March—May 2004, Romania,
Hungary
Expected release: December 2005
Clown Shlomo has twins in a traveling circus company at the beginning of the 1900s.
Following in the footsteps of their father,
the boys become popular circus-artists. …
What kind of answers can we give to the
challenges „history” presents us with interfering again and again with our personal
lives?
Péter Gárdos
Az igazi Mikulás / The Real Santa
Producer: Dénes Szekeres, Production
company: Tivoli-Filmproduction,
Equinox Film (Germany), Söz Film
Gösterim Yapim (Turkey)
Shooting: November 2004—January 2005,
Hungary, Poland
1990: God and the Devil make a bet on the
soul of a bar pianist with a derailed life —
then comes an 8-year-old girl and turns the
odds around in a day.
Róbert Adrian Pejó
Dallas
Producer: László Kántor, Andreas
Bareiss (Germany), Helmut Grasser
(Austria), Production company: New
Budapest Filmstudio, MTM-Medien
und Television München (Germany),
Allegro Film (Austria)
Shooting: August—December 2003,
Rumania, Hungary
Expected release: February 2005, 36th
Hungarian Film Week
The characters in Dallas are poor people,
living on the margins of society. Through
their attitude to problems they teach us
how little one needs be happy.
Szabolcs Hajdu
Fehér tenyér / White Palms
(working title)
Producer: Iván Angelusz, Péter Reich,
Production company: Katapult Film
Shooting: August—September 2004,
Hungary, Canada
Hungarian Film Week
The stars of two talented gymnasts are rising parallelly. One tries to fulfil his dreams
between the hands of a sadistic, authoritarian coach in Debrecen, a drab Central-
European small town before the political
changes, the other in Calgary, Canada
under the most optimal circumstances possible to assist his professional career. Their
greatest dream is to get to the World
Championship or the Olympic Games.
Tibor Szemzô
Csoma legendárium / Csoma’ Legend
Producer: György Durst, Production
company: Mediawawe 2000, Duna TV
Shooting: September 2003—
July 2004, India
Hungarian Film Week
„A great many books and films have discussed Sándor Kôrösi Csoma’s trip, his oeuvre and his scientific and linguistic
significance. I do not wish to provide yet
another biography or yet another interpretation, although the script has been
inspired by moments of his life and his
fate.” Tibor Szemzô
Gábor Dettre
Romazsaru / Romacop
Producer: László Kántor, Andreas
Bareiss, Karl Baumgartner (Germany),
Production company: New Budapest
Filmstudio, MTM-Medien und
Television München, Pandora Films
Shooting: May—November 2004, Hungary
Hungarian Film Week
The film follows the story of a successful
police investigation. Its protagonist is a
sub-lieutenant of Gypsy origin with a
degree in law who does his job mostly as a
lonely hero. Because of his origin and his
wife who has come home to live from
America he becomes the target of social
prejudice. This is aggravated by a police
case in which the suspect happens to be a
Gypsy as well…
Ágnes Incze
Randevú / Rendez-vous
Producer: Zsuzsanna Hollósi G., Gábor
Varga, Production company: Filmplus
Shooting: from autumn 2004, Budapest
Expected completion: February 2005, 36th
Hungarian Film Week
A heart-rending story of the friendship
among an overweight angel, a merry
homeless auntie and a sexy nurse in the
style of the new millennium, this is the
second film by the director who made
„I ♥ BUDAPEST”.
László Kántor
Önmagunkról másképp / Crossover
(documentary)
Producer: László Kántor, Production
company: New Budapest Filmstudio
Shooting: 2002—2004
Hungarian Film Week
The documentary outlines the way of
transmission of a message. The graphic
artist, the sand drawer and the dancer are
testing the possibilities of communication
with their own methods but with the com-
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mon emotion and intention of transmission of ideas.
Árpád Bogdán
Boldog Új Élet! / Happy New Fear
(working title)
Producer: Gábor Sipos, Gábor Rajna,
Production company: Laokoon Film
Shooting: October—December 2004,
Budapest
Hungarian Film Week
The film wishes to depict the interdependence and equality of cultures by presenting a wide range of Gypsy and nonGypsy cultural values. By showing the various sides of modern Gypsy culture, the
makers of the film wish to draw the attention of the whole society to the endangered ways of self expression of the
minorities and the difficult situation of
the cultural revival.
József Pacskovszky
Négy évszak az ûrben / Four Seasons
in Space
Producer: Pál Sándor, Production company: Hunnia Filmstudio
Shooting: November 2004, Hungary
Expected completion: 2005
Shooting: from February 2005
Somewhere on the river. As if we were at a
party of a travel agency. The guests are
happy, hopes to win the right of the timeshare of an exotic flat. But in the semi-final
everyone falls out except for eight guests.
A tale told by a foolish old lady who is unrestrainable, has a stormy emotional life, is
completely unpredictable by her children
thus creating continuous anxiety who, for
no particular reasons, it seems, is able to
get from the wildest desire to live to the
deepest despair, to traverse heaven and hell
alternatively.
György Pálfi
Taxidermia / Taxidermy
Producer: Gábor Váradi, Production
Shooting: from May 2004,
Hungary, Vienna
Expected completion: May 2005
The screenplay of Taxidermy tells the story
of a family, three historical eras, three lives,
three men, from the grandfather to the son
in the second half of the 20th century and
today, in the first years of the 21st.
Zoltán Kamondi
Az érsek látogatása /
The Archbishop’s Visit
Producer: Zoltán Kamondi, Executive
producer: András Tóth, Production
company: Honeymood Films
Shooting: from May 2004, Budapest,
Rome, Moscow
Hungarian Film Week
Shooting: August—November 2004,
Rumania
Expected completion: September 2005
Stories set among the stars and on Earth
about interdependence.
A surrealistic vision about the period of
political changes in a far Eastern European
country.
Nemes Gyula
Egyetleneim / My Only Ones
company: Mediawawe 2000, Duna TV
Shooting: November 2003—
August 2004
Expected release: February 2005,
36th Hungarian Film Week
Stories about boys and girls. Gyula Nemes’
thesis film, his consultant is Vera
Chytilova.
Péter Mészáros
Bíborkagyló / Cythéra
company: Mediawave 2000, Duna TV
Shooting: from autumn 2004
Expected release: spring 2005
The film is a bitter, modern adaptation of
Leaving for the Island of Cythere by
Watteau, one of the most mysterious paintings of the 18th century, about the gray and
hopeless passing of love.
Nándor Hevesi — Kornél Szilágyi
Álomvadászat / Dream Hunting
company: Álomvadász, Duna TV
Shooting: from summer 2004
Expected release: spring 2005
Real events appearing in a dream and their
washback effect on reality is depicted in
the film within the framework of a love
story.
Tamás Sas
Holló a hollónak / Dog Doesn’t Eat Dog
company: Tivoli-Filmproduction
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Ildikó Enyedi
Szelíd Interface / Tender Interface
Producer: Péter Miskolczi, Production
Shooting: October—December 2004,
Hungary
Expected completion: October 2005
New York. The summer of 1939. Europe is
a faraway, messy and irritating place.
America is preoccupied with something
entirely different. People are afraid that
they will be attacked by extraterrestrial
creatures. A small village in Jászság, the
summer of 2003.
Makk Károly
A waterloo-i gyôzelem / Victory at
Waterloo
Producer: Pál Bokor, Production company: Atlantic, Novotny&Novotny
Filmproduktions (Austria), NetEntertainment (Germany)
Shooting: autumn 2004, Hungary, Vienna
Expected completion: autumn 2005
The Waterloo Victory is a real comedy of
errors with a lot of situation comedy and
music. The eventful plot and the charming
characters are put in the 1920’s of Budapest
and in a world of silent films — a movie of
great images.
László Kántor
Anya csak egy van / Mother Is Just One
Producer: Zsuzsa Kulcsár, Production
company: New Budapest Filmstudio,
MTV
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Márió, a varázsló / Mario, the
Magician
Producer: László Berta, Production
company: Panoráma Film
Shooting: autumn 2004, Hungary
In the early 1990s, when the political
changes have hardly been accomplished,
Italian shoe manufacturers arrive in a
remote village in Hungary. The villagers
hope that their long cherished hopes and
dreams will be now fulfilled by the first capitalists to arrive here.
Kornél Mundruczó
Delta
Producer: Viktória Petrányi,
Production company: Proton Cinema,
The Coproduction Office (France),
Essential Filmproduktion (Germany)
Shooting: winter 2004—2005,
at the Danube
Science fiction at the border of a world torn
into two. The script was developed in the
program of Cinéfondation — Résidance du
Festival de Cannes
Béla Tarr
A londoni férfi / The Man from
London
Producer: Gábor Téni, Humbert
Balsan, Miki Zachar, Joachim von
Vietinghoff, Christoph Meyer-Wiel,
Juliusz Kossakowski, Production company: T. T. Filmmûhely
Shooting: from November 2004, Corsica
Release: 2006
Based on the novel of the same title by
Georges Simenon.
Iván Bánki
Vonat a pokolból / Train from Hell
Producer: Miklós Szita, Production
company: Goess Film
Shooting: 2004—2005, Hungary, Austria,
Turkey, Switzerland, Israel
Expected release: 2006
How could Kasztner save out 1684 people
from Budapest on a train on july 30,
1944? Who was he? (The good and evil in
one soul?) How devilish game did he play
and how mutch did he pay for it?
Péter Gárdos
Donna Bella
company: Tivoli-Filmproduction
Published by Magyar Filmunió Ltd.
V á r osli g eti fasor 38.
1068 Budapest, Hungary
Tel: +36 1 351-7760,
Shooting: from April 2005, Hungary,
Germany, Austria
Expected completion: January 2007
Story of a 15-year-old Jewish orphan and a
beautiful woman with a dark past in
Budapest, 1946: murders, passions, sins.
Peter Greenaway
Tulse Luper Bôröndjei 3. / Tulse Luper
Suitcases 3 — From Sark to Finish
Production company: Focus Film, ABS
Production S. L (Spain), Delux
Productions (Luxemburg), Gam Film
(Italy), Kasander Film Company
(Holland), Net Entertainment
(Germany), Studio 12-A (Russia)
Shooting: 2004, England, Germany,
Hungary
The film will follow the history of the 20th
century through Tulse Luper’s life from
1928, the discovery of uranium (which is
important for the atomic bomb as well as
the development of history) until 1989, the
tumbling of the Berlin wall, comprising 92
events which had an important impact on
world history, from the point of view of 92
characters and showing the contents of 92
suitcases.
Enzo Monteleone
Alagút a szabadság felé / Tunnel of
Freedom
Production company: Focus Film,
Palomar Spa (Italy)
Shooting: August 2004, Hungary
Expected completion: March 2005
A group of Italian university students living in Berlin dig a tunnel under the Wall in
1961 to help their friends who got stuck in
East Berlin escape.
Menahem Golan,
Badenheim
Production company: Focus Film, Cine
Images (Germany), Novapool
(Germany), Sofi Film (Germany), Terra
Film (Austria)
Shooting: 2004, Austria, Hungary,
Germany
Expected completion: November 2005
A surrealistic tragic comedy about the
adventures of the participants of a Jewish
cultural festival in Austria in 1939.
Lamberto Lambertini
A szívemre célozzatok / Fire at My
Heart
Production company: Focus Film,
Indrapur Cinematografica srl. (Italy)
Shooting: from August 2004, Italy,
Hungary
Expected completion: September 2005
A young man’s struggle for himself and
for love, amid the eternal struggle
between old and new, reality and appearance, the heart and the mind during the
reign of Murat, the mysterious king of
the mysterious Naples.
E-mail: [email protected]
Layout by Czeizel Balázs
Printed by Gelbert Ltd.
HU ISSN 1785-4865
A MEDIA Salles,
the initiative on behalf of European cinemas, with the support of the MEDIA Programme
and the Italian Government, is promoting in 2004 a new edition of the exhibitor training course:
ece
„EUROPEAN CINEMA EXHIBITION:
A NEW APPROACH”
BUDAPEST, HUNGARY
22—26 SEPTEMBER 2004
in collaboration with
the European Film College, DB (the Danish exhibitors’ association),
Mozisok Országos Szövetsége (the Hungarian exhibitors’ association),
Magyar Filmunió and with the support of
the Hungarian Ministry of Cultural Heritage.
Main topics:
Promotion and marketing
Which films for which audiences?
Theatre management
The European dimension
New developments in technology
Lessons will be held in English and in Hungarian.
Deadline for applications: 2 August 2004
Fee: 200 euro
For enrolments after the deadline: 300 euro
The training initiatives promoted by MEDIA Salles are open to exhibitors
from countries belonging to the MEDIA Programme.
For further information, please contact the MEDIA Salles offices
Tel.: +39.02.66984405, e-mail: [email protected]
or visit the website www.mediasalles.it

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