Cantata Profana
| Movie | |
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| 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 |
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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
- Cantata Profana in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Bryan Burns: World cinema: Hungary. Flick Books, Wiltshire 1996, ISBN 0-948911-71-9 , p. 58