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HUF 1 000 (Free with IF PASS)
17:00 - The Little Girl of Hanoi
Drama, b&w, 1974, VN, 72’ | dir: Hai Ninh | Vietnamese with HU and ENG subtitles
Directed by Hai Ninh
Screenplay by Tich Chi Hoang, Hai Ninh, Dan Hoan Vuong
Director of photography: The Dan Tran
Music by Van Hoang
Cast: Giang Tra, Anh The, Xuan Kim
American films have played a large part in the shaping of the popular image of the Vietnam War. This time, though, it is the turn of the other side. A Vietnam War film from the Vietnamese perspective – this rare angle is supplied by this 1974 movie, which marks the American bombing of Hanoi in December 1972, the fighting and the victims all through the story of a young girl who is searching for her father fighting on the front in the chaos of war. One can say that this is a propaganda film – and the truth is, it contains plenty of propaganda elements – but at the same time it is an interesting work in its narrative form and design as well as a moving document of the period.
The screening will be introduced by Vincze Teréz, film critic and curator.
19:00 - Cineconcert: São Paulo, a Metropolitan Symphony
Documentary, b&w, 1929, BR, 90’ | dir: Adalberto Kemeny, Rudolf Rex Lustig | Portugese with HU subtitles
Directed by Adalberto Kemeny, Rudolf Rex Lustig
Director of photography: Adalberto Kemeny, Rudolf Rex Lustig
Musician: Ferenc Darvas (piano)
São Paulo, the buzzing Brazilian metropolis in the 1920s. The market cavalcade, rush hour, grand mansions, people scurrying to work or just sitting staring on terraces – all seen through the eyes of two Hungarian immigrants, Adalberto Kemeny and Rudolf Rex Lustig. The filmmakers, who began their careers in film production in Budapest and Berlin, spent 14 months making this movie, which stands alongside the period’s great city films by Ruttmann and Cavalcanti. Its co-film, Journey into Sin, that is included in the festival programme, is a film noir from a different age but similarly set in São Paulo.
The screening will be introduced by Samantha Leroy, programme director at the Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé Foundation.