Hungarian Rhapsody (1979)

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Movie
German title Hungarian rhapsody
Original title Magyar rapszódia
Country of production Hungary
original language Hungarian
Publishing year 1979
Rod
Director Miklós Jancsó
script Gyula Hernádi
Miklós Jancsó
camera Tamás Somló
János Kende
cut Zsuzsa Csákány
occupation

Hungarian Rhapsody ( Magyar rapszódia ) is a Hungarian period film directed by Miklós Jancsó in 1979. It was shot together with the follow-up film Allegro Barbaro , but a planned third part, Concerto , never came about, so that the cycle called Vitam et sanguinem remained unfinished. In Cannes, the two films were shown as Rhapsody hongroise Part 1 and Part 2. Compared to Jancsó's earlier Hungarian productions, they were created with greater resources and a lot of staff not far from Lake Balaton .

The title alludes to the musical work of the same name by Franz Liszt . The film is a song of praise to its main character. The plot is inspired by the life of the politician Endre Bajcsy-Zsilinszky . He came from the petty nobility and led with his brother after the failure of the communist council dictatorship in 1919 the white terror against the communists. Dislike everything German, he alienated himself from his camp in the 1920s and was hostile to fascism. After the occupation of Hungary by the Wehrmacht in 1944, he led the resistance and was murdered by the Hungarian fascists. Jancsó fictionalizes the historical model and, for example, composes the figure of the Prime Minister from several historical personalities. He does not follow facts, but tries to open up an emotional access to Hungarian history. He uses a more conventional dramaturgy than in his films from the first half of the 1970s.

literature

  • Karen Jaehne: Hungarian Rhapsody . In: Film Quarterly , vol. 34, no. 1, spring 1980, pp. 54–56 (English)
  • Jean-Pierre Jeancolas: Cinéma Hongrois 1963–1988 . Editions du Center national de la recherche scientifique, Paris 1989, ISBN 2-222-04301-8 , p. 107 (French)
  • Bryan Burns: World cinema: Hungary. Flick Books, Wiltshire 1996, ISBN 0-948911-71-9 , pp. 68-69 (English)

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