Budapest Classic Film Marathon 2024: Springtime in Budapest

Director: Félix Máriássy

Written by Ferenc Karinthy
Screenplay by Ferenc Karinthy, Gábor Thurzó
Director of photography: György Illés
Music by Imre Vincze
Cast: Miklós Gábor, Tibor Molnár, Zsuzsa Gordon

Programme Section "Somewhere in Europe" / restauration premiere

0n 19.09. introduction by: Attila Vörös, MWA, Klang operator, projectionist

Christmas 1944. Two soldiers gone AWOL arrive in a Budapest that is under siege. Gazsó makes contact with the resistance but Zoltán never wants to take up arms again. He just aims to survive the war and take care of his love flowering in the shadow of horrors. However, as events unfold his attitude quickly changes. Félix Máriássy’s moving work, which projects the end days of the war from the perspective of everyday people, was the first feature film to examine the tragedy of the Holocaust, thus making it a hugely significant film of Hungarian historical remembrance.

Supporting film: Metamorphoses
Hungarian animation, colour, 1964, dir: György Kovásznai, No dialogue, 7

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