Everyday legend
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Everyday legend |
| Original title | Koznapi legenda |
| Country of production | Hungary , Germany |
| original language | Hungarian |
| Publishing year | 1976 |
| length | 69 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | László Félix |
| script | György Sós |
| production | Lóránt Horváth (production manager) |
| camera | Tibor Mestyan |
| cut | Julia Kende |
| occupation | |
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Everyday legend (Hungarian original title: Köznapi legenda ) is a Hungarian-German television film.
action
János Áment and his wife Rosalie appear in court because János wants to divorce his wife. He separated from her 28 years ago when he returned from the war after three years and learned that she was expecting a child from another man. After that he never saw her again and has been out of wedlock with Barbara Kántor for 20 years, with whom he has four children. Now Barbara is pushing for a divorce so that János can marry her. János is a simple and uneducated man who has never been to court and therefore behaves nervously and respectfully, almost submissively. He explains the situation to the judge and she sets a new court date in a month - this period is required by law.
János goes home to Barbara. When she learns of the delay, she reveals the reason for her urging: She was with a doctor who recommended that she go to the hospital; surgery may be needed. For years, since the birth of the fourth child, she has been sick again and again and now feels very weak.
A few days later she will have an operation. The surgeon gives János little hope: Barbara has cancer and will probably only live a few more days. The next day, János visits her in the hospital, but the doctor and he don't tell her how bad things are for her.
Then he goes to the court again to explain the situation to the judge and to expedite the divorce. The judge initially invokes the laws and wants to reject him, but when she learns of Barbara's illness, she is very empathetic. She forged the date of the first court hearing in the file in order to be able to schedule a second appointment immediately. Meanwhile, János goes to his wife and asks her to take him to court right away. The two are divorced, but the file must first be countersigned by a public prosecutor, and only then should the notification be sent to János in writing. He's afraid that Barbara won't live that long, so the judge goes straight to the prosecutor. However, the latter notices the changed date, which represents a forgery of documents. Despite the judge's explanations and requests, he refuses to sign the file. When János can no longer stand it in the corridor and enters the office of the public prosecutor without being asked, the prosecutor does not dare to say his refusal to his face and reluctantly signs.
The judge has to help the lovable but dumb János again and again: She calls the registry office for him and makes an appointment for a bedside wedding. Then she buys flowers for a bridal bouquet, picks up the registrar and drives him and János to the hospital. János tells Barbara about the immediate marriage, but leaves her in the hope of recovering soon. János' first wife Rosalie also appears surprisingly at the hospital, and the two women see each other for the first time. After Rosalie initially reacted coolly to the news of Barbara's illness, she is now much more affectionate and stresses that she has no negative feelings towards Barbara.
In a short ceremony, led by the inexperienced and somewhat clumsy intern from the registry office, with the doctor and the judge as witnesses, Barbara and János can finally say yes.
production
The film is a co-production between Hungarian television and Bayerischer Rundfunk in collaboration with Telepool . The first broadcast in Hungary was on March 23, 1976, in Germany on May 21, 1976 on ARD.
The film is based on a novella by György Sós, who also wrote the screenplay, and it was translated into German by László Fikár. For the Hungarian version, the two German-speaking actors were dubbed by Jószef Máriáss ( Helmut Qualtinger ) and Rudolf Somogyvári ( Franz Rudnick ).
Web links
- Life legend in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Everyday legend on Youtube
Individual evidence
- ↑ Finding aid television archive / production company for screenplays / manuscripts 1953 to 1995 . Edited by Axel Stoffels and Werner Pilsinger. Bayerischer Rundfunk Historical Archive / ABD, October 2012, p. 98 (PDF for download)