Concert
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Concert |
| Country of production | Hungary , United States |
| original language | Hungarian , English |
| Publishing year | 1962 |
| length | 16 minutes |
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| Director | István Szabó |
| production | Ezra R. Baker |
| music | Tihamér Vujicsics |
| camera | Vámos Tamás |
| cut | Zoltán Kerényi |
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Koncert is a Hungarian - American short film directed by István Szabó in 1962, for which producer Ezra R. Baker was nominated for an Oscar .
content
Three young men are on the beach with a piano. They actually only play their music for one person, a beautiful young lady sitting at the water's edge. She feels entertained by the lecture, but most of the other beach vacationers don't. Loud complaints are making the rounds. In the course of the unrest, the music becomes less and less harmonious and even dissonances. The young men now try to concentrate their music less on one person. A staircase is reflected in front of everyone's eyes, through which the viewer reflects themselves but also the surroundings and landscapes are reflected in the water. It looks as if the mirror is being carried by a pretty young woman and the young men who look at themselves in it now only have eyes for themselves. When the mirror is handed over to another woman, she boards a boat and the three of them young men follow her.
The people who stay behind by the water go to the piano and rediscover the instrument, each in their own way and yet somehow together. More and more beach vacationers gather around and at the piano, some of whom play something, everyone in his own way and everyone enjoys the music together. When it starts to rain, people cover the piano with their clothes and want to bring the instrument to safety. At that moment the young men come back.
production
Production notes
The film was released by George K. Arthur - Go Pictures King Corp. produced. For the Hungarian director Istvan Szabó, the film he made as a student was his start in the film business. As the film was enthusiastically received, the Béla Balázs film studio became aware of him, with whom he made two further short films, which were quickly followed by his first feature film Álmodozások kora (German time of dreaming ; also age of dreaming , 1964).
publication
The film premiered in Hungary in 1962. On September 21, 1963 he was presented in Thessaloniki, Greece at the International Film Festival under the title Κονσέρτο . On February 24, 2018 it was a contribution to the Serbian Belgrade Film Festival. In Italy the film was presented under the title Concerto . The English title is The Concert .
reception
criticism
Bart Rietvink read about the film in Cinemagazine and said it had playful shots and a fairly abstract content. It may not have a clear plot, but if you look at it with an analytical eye, you can recognize symbols in individual scenes and draw conclusions from them. Some images in the film would be reminiscent of the short film Regen (1929) by the Dutch filmmaker Joris Ivens . Perhaps it is a film about the binding force of music, which can convey harmony. Perhaps the film is also a metaphor for society and humanity in general, with which Szabó wants to tell us that we should listen better and look at each other better. Perhaps such an assumption is presumptuous and it is just an indefinable and stylistically interesting short film that draws its strength from this abstraction.
Award
- Nomination for Ezra R. Baker in the category "Best Short Film"
Web links
- Concert in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bart Rietvink: The Concert - Koncert (1962) see page cinemagazine.nl (Dutch). Retrieved February 4, 2020.