The tyrant's heart
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The tyrant's heart |
| Original title | A zsarnok szíve, avagy Boccaccio Magyarországon |
| Country of production | Hungary , Italy |
| original language | Hungarian |
| Publishing year | 1981 |
| length | 95 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Miklós Jancsó |
| script |
Giovanna Gagliardo Gyula Hernádi Miklós Jancsó |
| music |
György Orbán Tamás Cseh Zoltán Simon |
| camera | János Kende |
| cut | Zsuzsa Csákány |
| occupation | |
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The Tyrant's Heart ( A zsarnok szíve, avagy Boccaccio Magyarországon ) is a Hungarian-Italian co-production from 1981. It was filmed in Budapest by the Hungarian MAFILM and the Italian television RAI. Director Miklós Jancsó directed the script by his partner Giovanna Gagliardo . For the first time he recorded a film entirely in the studio; The camera moves around the actors in plan sequences.
action
The story is set in the 15th century. A prince returns to Hungary from Italy, accompanied by a troupe of actors and a monk. He hears different reports about the death of his father and wants to find out the truth.
Meanwhile, the archbishop wants to crown him king, his uncle vies for his silent mother and the Turks play an obscure role. Dead come back to life. Then the prince's father reappears; his fake death was supposed to test the prince, and he failed it; the father kills him. An Italian kills his father on behalf of the Turks. In the end, everything that is told turns out to be a performance by a theater group that breaks up and is gunned down. Your murderer will then also be shot.
Reviews
For the lexicon of international films , The Tyrant's Heart is “perfectly composed”. The film is playing a “sophisticated game” with the audience and fooling it “with a parabolic equation with many unknowns, until finally the form overgrows any possible message.” Jancsó plays “with multiple reflexes that radiate from the infinity of reality: the game , the dream and the delusion, "it said in Positif . He creates a world of power, madness and illusions, with a symbolic space and a magical time dimension, and reproduces the world in "pictures of icy flickering". According to the International Film Guide 1983 , the film has a smoothness of the surface and a touch of the exotic. The content is so weird that it cannot be understood without a separate description of the action. At times - for example at the end with horses and puszta - the film turns into a self-parody of Jancsó. In the Cahiers du cinéma , Serge Daney, who was allowed to attend the shooting for a few days, said that the games performed by Jancsó no longer touched upon, and rated the film as "very bad". The metaphor of power changing from one hand to the next is stale. The filmmaker is stuck in a dead end.
Web links
- The heart of the tyrant in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Tyrant's Heart. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed June 3, 2017 .
- ↑ Isabelle Jordan: A zsarnok szíve, avagy Boccaccio Magyarországon (Le Cœur du tyran, ou Boccace en Hongrie) . In: Positif , November 1981, p. 42
- ^ Derek Elley: Hungary . In: International Film Guide 1983 , p. 157
- ^ Serge Daney: Venise en vrac (flashes) . In: Cahiers du cinéma , No. 329, November 1981, pp. 33-34