On the surface, it looks like any other teenage love story: Abel, an absent-minded high-school student in Budapest, hopelessly pines for his best friend, Erika, dreamily staring out the classroom window when the teacher calls his name. On the day of his final exam, he draws a blank: Rather than bury his head in his history books, Abel’s had his head in the clouds.
But an off-hand comment by one of his examiners, about the tricolor ribbon pinned to his lapel — a nationalist symbol in Viktor Orbán’s Hungary — sparks a controversy that soon snowballs into a nationwide scandal. For Hungarian filmmaker Gábor Reisz, the director of “Explanation for Everything,” the debate cuts to the heart of a question that has increasingly dominated public discourse in his country since the rise of the right-wing prime minister: “Are you a real Hungarian?”
The film, which premieres in the Horizons strand of the Venice Film Festival,...
But an off-hand comment by one of his examiners, about the tricolor ribbon pinned to his lapel — a nationalist symbol in Viktor Orbán’s Hungary — sparks a controversy that soon snowballs into a nationwide scandal. For Hungarian filmmaker Gábor Reisz, the director of “Explanation for Everything,” the debate cuts to the heart of a question that has increasingly dominated public discourse in his country since the rise of the right-wing prime minister: “Are you a real Hungarian?”
The film, which premieres in the Horizons strand of the Venice Film Festival,...
- 9/2/2023
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
Feature documentary “Golden Legends,” which focuses on the Hungarian men’s water polo team who were crowned Olympic champions three times running between 2000-2008, has broken the record for a theatrical release in Hungary of a local documentary.
Tamas S. Zákonyi’s film was released nationwide in Hungarian cinemas by Fórum Hungary at the end of April, and was in the Top 10 for six weeks. It has drawn more than 87,000 admissions, and grossed $470,782.
The film has overtaken 2016 Hungarian documentary “The Horsearcher,” which portrays archer and equestrian Lajos Kassai. That film scored 82,000 admissions.
“Golden Legends” is the most successful Hungarian film of any genre in local cinemas since romantic comedy “Christmas Flame” in 2021.
“We wanted to make a film with a feel-good tone, fast-paced, witty, but at the same time dramatic and emotional,” Zákonyi said. “[I wanted to create] a cinema experience which has a swimming pool atmosphere, where viewers can relive, among other things,...
Tamas S. Zákonyi’s film was released nationwide in Hungarian cinemas by Fórum Hungary at the end of April, and was in the Top 10 for six weeks. It has drawn more than 87,000 admissions, and grossed $470,782.
The film has overtaken 2016 Hungarian documentary “The Horsearcher,” which portrays archer and equestrian Lajos Kassai. That film scored 82,000 admissions.
“Golden Legends” is the most successful Hungarian film of any genre in local cinemas since romantic comedy “Christmas Flame” in 2021.
“We wanted to make a film with a feel-good tone, fast-paced, witty, but at the same time dramatic and emotional,” Zákonyi said. “[I wanted to create] a cinema experience which has a swimming pool atmosphere, where viewers can relive, among other things,...
- 8/4/2023
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
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