György Barkó

It is 1680 – the time of dreamt snow after the Turkish invasion. In the deserted plains of Bácska a living soul cannot be found in a few-days’ walk. Three former prisoners returning from their Turkish captivity – Long-Legged, Lame and One-Eyed – appear among the crumbling walls of a huge abandoned church without a roof. They are looking for their long lost home. How to revive a disappeared civilization? What is the survivors’ personal duty? Without a roof, a collapse is inevitable. The Old Man – a master of ancient knowledge – and his daughter come and with sharing sowing seeds they try to save the community of dispersion. No spiritual leader, no aims. Driven by rapacity, One-Eyed kills the Old Man, rapes his daughter and while looking for the remaining seeds he kills Long-Legged with a sudden anger. At the end of the film, the survivors need to face with dramatic encounters and special temptations. Their redemption under the leadership of Lame’s young son is the pledge for the future.

헝가리 평원의 한 작은 마을에서 일어나는 이야기. 온통 서리로 둘러싸여 있는 이 마을에는 눈이 내리지 않지만 날씨는 살을 에는 듯 춥다. 이렇게 당혹스러운 추위에도 수백명의 사람들이 박제된 고래를 보기 위해 서커스 천막 주위에 서 있다. 외지인들의 출현과 혹독한 서리 등으로 평화로운 마을의 질서는 깨지는데... 145분이라는 긴 러닝타임에도 불구하고 단 39개의 숏으로 구성된 영화는 긴 호흡 속에서 독특한 긴장감을 유지한다. 10분 20초에 달하는 오프닝. 춤추는 듯이 좌우로 움직이는 카메라, 타이트한 클로즈업. 스테디 캠으로 촬영된 롱테이크, 여러 문 사이틀 드나드는 자유로운 카메라 워크 등이 돋보인다. <사탄탱고>의 작가인 라즐로 크라스나호르카이가 시나리오를, 벨라타르의 아내인 아녜스 흐라니츠키가 편집을 맡았다. 제2회 전주국제영화제 상영작.

The tumultuous history of Hungary through the twentieth century is viewed through the saga of the Hungarian-Jewish, furniture-manufacturing family, the Vendels. After taking over the once successful, but now failing, family business in the 1930s, the family patriarch's dashing elder son decides that the family needs an infusion of new blood. A matchmaker presents him with a photo of a pretty German nursery school teacher. When the two meet, they instantly fall in love, but because Hungary has an alliance with Germany, and the Third Reich prohibits marriage between Gentiles and Jews, the couple must hide their union. Their marriage ultimately stands as a dark foreshadowing of rougher times to come as troubles ensue with the advent of World War II, when the family, its employees and servants must retreat to the basement, where the shop emerges increasingly as a refuge in a world growing more violent and less tolerant.

Can Daniel follow the sun from Hamburg to the Bosporus by Friday to meet his love?

Anita and her married boyfriend, András, get involved with some heavy hitters who smuggle from the Ukraine into Hungary. The deeper into it they get, the more their relationship is strained; things aren't helped by the unexpected visit that András's pregnant wife pays Anita and her mother. At a nightclub, Anita meets Alex, a Ruthenian who's a collector of folk songs. The two of them begin an affair, and András may be left out in the cold, with the local mob still waiting for him to deliver the goods. How patient will they be, how desperate will András get, and how will Anita sort out loyalty and infatuation? (

Set in a mining town, it records the development of two shy people falling in love but finding it difficult to express their true feelings. Tamas a young coal miner has an eye for the girls but is too bashful to ask for a date. Juli is a teacher in charge of a kindergarten. She too has yearnings for love but fears showing the feelings bubbling within her. The quiet and tender moments the lovers spend together are contrasted with the overpowering gigantic and noisy coal mine with its dirty metal trucks and endless rubber conveyor belts. There is an atmosphere of impending danger within the mine.

헝가리의 대평원을 배경으로 한 이야기. 어딜 보나 지평선뿐인 이곳에서 주민들은 띄엄띄엄 멀리 떨어져 살아간다. 기계문명의 혜택을 받지 못하고 살아온 이들은 이 마을을 벗어나고 싶다는 강한 욕망에 사로잡혀 있다. 이를 위해 그들은 다른 이들을 상대로 한 도둑질과 속임수의 환상 속에서 살아간다. 그러나 자신감이 부족한 그들은 이 초라한 해결책에도 동요하게 되고 결국 계획을 실행에 옮기지 못하고 만다. 사실 그들이 기다리는 것은 자신들을 이끌고 구원해줄 메시아, 지난 과오를 사면해 줄 구세주인 것이다.

Imre Horváth and his friends gather to celebrate his wife's birthday. They are confused because of the changes in the country's politics and want Horváth to be much more active politically, but he is more concerned about his affair with his best friend's daughter.