Cantata Profana

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Movie
German title Cantata Profana
Original title Oldás és kötés
Country of production Hungary
original language Hungarian
Publishing year 1963
length 107 minutes
Rod
Director Miklós Jancsó
script Miklós Jancsó
Guyla Hernádi
music Bálint Sárosi
camera Tamás Somló
cut Zoltan Farkas
occupation

Cantata Profana (original title: Oldás és kötés ) is the second feature film by the Hungarian filmmaker Miklós Jancsó and was made in 1963 based on a short story by József Lengyel . The internationally popular title of the film refers to the musical work Cantata profana - Die Zauberhirsche (1930) by the Hungarian composer Béla Bartók , while the original title Oldás és kötés literally means “dissolution and attachment”.

action

Ambrus is a younger surgeon in a Budapest hospital who feels dissatisfied with his life. He roams through bars and cellars where his buddies listen to music or see the art of film. He returns from the big city to his place of origin, to the farm of his sick father. In nature and landscape he finds a void in which he can reflect. He grasps the importance of family and friends and meets his former teacher, Professor Ádámfy. When he drives back to Budapest, he hears Bartók reading a folk tale on the car radio.

rating

In a review of Hungarian film history, Burns (1996) said that despite its unevenness and too much reference to Antonioni, Cantata Profana was an unusual success. The film did not confirm anything, rather it tried to question and provoke in an expanded context instead of in an individual, self-centered.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bryan Burns: World cinema: Hungary. Flick Books, Wiltshire 1996, ISBN 0-948911-71-9 , p. 58