Budapest Classic Film Marathon 2024: The Man Who Thought Life

Director: Jens Ravn

Written by Valdemar Holst, Jens Ravn
Screenplay by Henrik Stangerup
Director of photography: Witold Leszczyński
Music by Per Nørgård
Cast: John Price, Preben Neergaard, Lotte Tarp

Programme section "Future of the Past" / Danish Film Institut and Filmarchiv

On 17.09. introduction by: István Kispéter, Researcher-Archivist, NFI – Film Archive
On 22.09. introduction by: Attila Varró, film critic

The mysterious Steinmetz has a special power, the ability to create things, even living beings, out of nothing, purely through the power of thought. However, his method is still not perfected so he approaches a famous brain surgeon who may be able to help. When the doctor rejects his request, Steinmetz gets his revenge by creating his doppelganger… A bizarre, Minimalist mind game-film adapted from an obscure novel by Valdemar Holst, in which we can sense the atmosphere of the haunted hospital of Lars von Trier.

Supporting film: Modern Sports Coaching (12)
Hungarian animation, colour, 1970, dir: Béla Ternovszky, with Hungarian captions, Subtitles: English, 7’

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