Szindbád

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Movie
German title Sindbad
Original title Szindbád
Country of production Hungary
original language Hungarian
Publishing year 1971
length 90 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Zoltán Huszárik
script Zoltán Huszárik
József Tornai
music Zoltán Jeney
camera Sándor Sára
József Gujbár (micrographs)
cut Mihály Morell
occupation

Szindbád ( Sindbad ) is a Hungarian drama from 1971 based on a short story character by the writer Gyula Krúdy . The first feature film by director Zoltán Huszárik with Zoltán Latinovits in the leading role was a surprise success in his homeland and is considered one of the best Hungarian films ever. In 2000 it was included in the list of "New Budapest 12" - a ranking of the 12 best Hungarian films.

action

Hungary, shortly before the First World War . Szindbád, a country nobleman and bon vivant, looks back on his life on the border between life and death. A life that was mainly characterized by sensual pleasures, above all by an incessant change between relationships with women. But nowhere did Szindbád - the name alludes to his loose, unsteady life - found peace, he couldn't really love a woman. Only in his visits to his former, older lover Majmunka, who over the years has become a maternal friend, does he find moments of understanding and camaraderie. In his search for meaning towards the end of his life he tentatively turned to the Catholicism of his childhood without experiencing any real conversion. He finally suffers a fatal heart attack in a church.

production

After the success of his short film Elégia (1965), Huszárik had enough support to make his first feature- length film. In the associative structure of the Szindbád novellas by Gyula Krúdy he found the suitable material whose atmosphere he wanted to capture on the canvas. He ambitiously wanted to win the internationally known Italian director and actor Vittorio de Sica for the lead role of Szindbád. But the casting idea failed because of de Sica's fee plans. Ultimately, the main role went to the well-known Hungarian actor Zoltán Latinovits. His partner Éva Ruttkai, herself a famous actress, took on the episode role of Lenke, one of Szindbad's many lovers. Most of the film's exterior shots were shot in Czechoslovakia . In the idyllic towns of eastern Slovakia , Huszárik found the ancient, elegiac atmosphere that forms the basic mood of his film.

Film language

The action of the strip is not chronological, but associative, according to the stream of consciousness . Different levels of action slide into one another, a chronological order can only be made out in rudiments. Briefly faded in close-ups of various objects and materials illustrate Szindbád's associations with the various events and memories. The color images are much focused on the sensory quality of the objects on display - especially in the famous scene where Szindbád in the restaurant Toast with Mark eaten. This underlines Szindbád's perception, which is oriented towards the superficial, sensual experience.

reception

The film was a huge hit with critics and a surprise commercial success in his homeland. In 1972 he received the Hungarian Film Critics' Grand Prize, as well as the Camera and Actress Awards (for Margit Dayka). The film received awards at festivals in Mannheim , Auckland and Milan abroad . In 2000 it was voted one of the "New Budapest 12" by Hungarian film critics.

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