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Hungarian films at TIFF
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Seven films of Zoltan Fabri will be screened at the festival.
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A RETROSPECTIVE of the films of the Hungarian director, Zoltan Fabri, will be the highlight of the 9th Trivandrum International Film Festival (TIFF), organised by Chalachithra Academy, to be held from July 29 to August 5.
Fabri, born in 1917, was a multi-faceted personality who came to filmmaking through painting and theatre. He had written a number of film scripts when he was asked to complete the film, `Underground Colony', which won a prize at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.
Fabri found his form with the emergence of the Hungarian new Wave in the 1950s. His films usually explore anti-fascist themes. They were about cruelty of man towards man, everywhere in the world.
The main character in `The Unfinished Sentence' is Lorinc Parcen Nagy, youngest member of a bourgeois dynasty. Everything in the film is expressed through his sensitive and uncompromising character. The contradictions and lies of his milieu alienate him from his family and finally, he rejects them.
`The Fifth Seal' tells of a dramatic turn in the lives of a handful of people during the days of Arrow Cross (Hungarian Nazi) terror. The film is about faith in man, about charity that cannot be expected from mankind. It is a judgment on tyranny and evil.
`Requiem' deals with the story of a young man in his twenties who, in jail, meets the first husband of a woman. The young man is educated by his cellmate who talks to him long about his wife and the life they had together. The woman learns the details of her husband's life and death in prison from the young man.
In `Professor Hannibal', Fabri tells the story of a schoolmaster who is convinced that his essay on Hannibal is bound to revolutionise the history of the Roman Empire. But he is accused of falsification of history and even high treason.
In `Hungarian', a few villagers are offered a one-year contract to work on a farm in Germany. The film tells of their life at the farm, their experiences with prisoners of war, the harvest, and death of a fellow worker. The labourers return to their country only to be drafted into the army.
`Balint Fabian Meets God' is about Balint Fabian who kills a soldier during war. His wife has an affair with a priest. When the priest is killed, she too kills herself. Balint becomes perturbed, and his memories haunt him. He feels he must have an answer to his questions but God does not appear and Balint hangs himself in the church.
In `The House Warming', a party is on at the new house of Laszlo Haudek. Biro and his daughter, Andrea, have a tiff there and a man is shot in the ensuing tussle. Being the owner of the gun, Haudek is trapped. A reporter tries to dig up the truth and tries various ploys to make them talk.
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