Zoltán Jeney

Hungría, 1943. Una pareja de ancianos judíos, Job y Roza, adopta a un revoltoso niño no judío a quien tienen la intención de traspasar su riqueza y conocimiento antes que la opresión nazi envuelva a Hungría.

A story about the Hungarian pioneers summer vacations.

Based on the stories of Hungarian writer Gyula Krúdy, this iconic film is a lush and sensuous depiction of the life, loves and memories of serial seducer Szindbád.

Ostensibly a non-narrative study of various aspects of a rural winter, this short film by one of modern Hungarian cinema’s greatest visual poets has all the spellbinding qualities of his better-known feature debut Sindbad (Szindbád, 1971), but here allied to a winning sense of humour that’s never quite allowed to detract from the haunting beauty of many of the images. The end of autumn is heralded by a few red leaves still clinging to a statue’s sculpted robes, while whip pans across the increasingly wintry landscape and close-ups of rippling water are given character by seemingly random freeze-frames and Zoltán Jeney’s electronic chirrups on the soundtrack. There are recurring shots of birds, migrating en masse, huddled by the icy water or lying individually dead, frozen stiff in the snow. So far Capriccio has been a reasonably generic mood piece, but then the snowmen arrive…

Primavera de 1945. Son los últimos días de la batalla de la liberación de Hungría. Jóska, el protagonista, tiene 17 años. Como miembro de una joven organización de estudiantes desertores es llevado a Alemania, pero se escapa.