10 Treurenberg, 1000 Brussels
29/03/2023 - Film workshop for Children
Workshops from 4 pm - 4.30 pm - 5 pm - 5.30 pm
The National Film Institute-Film Archive's education and youth programme invites children of all ages to its film workshop!
During the workshop, you will have the opportunity to make your own animated short film on a 35 mm filmstrip. You will also have the chance to try out and learn about pre-cinema optical devices such as the praxinoscope, the thaumatrope, the phenakistiscope and the zoetrope.
29/03/2023, 7PM - Johnny Corncob/János vitéz
1973, Hungarian, Language: Hungarian, Subtitle: English (80’); Director: Marcell Jankovics.
The very first full length animation to be completed in Hungary, the film was commissioned by the government for the 150th anniversary of national poet Sándor Petőfi’s birthday, and based on his epic poem of the same title. It was premiered on May 1, 1973. The production took 22 months, that is, almost 2 years. The story follows the great adventures of titular János, a shepherd, who leaves his village to become a hussar and in quest for his beloved Iluska. Visually it bears strong stylistic affinities with the Art Nouveau, pop art, and the decorative Hungarian folk art. Both the hallucinogenically colorful visual design and the psychedelic road movie-like narrative of the film is highly reminiscent of the cult film of the hippie era, Yellow Submarine from 1968.
Directed by: Marcell Jankovics
Written by: Sándor Petőfi
Screenplay by: Marcell Jankovics, Tamás Szabó Sipos, Péter Szoboszlay
Design by: Marcell Jankovics, Zsolt Richly
Director of photography: Zoltán Bacsó, Attila Csepela, Irén Henrik, Klári Kassai, Csaba Nagy
Music by: János Gyulai Gaál
Cast (voice): György Cserhalmi, Anikó Nagy, Erzsi Pártos
Genre: animation, youth film, adventure, fantasy
Production: Pannonia Film Studio
Format: colour, 4:3, 4K digitally remastered
30/03/2023, 7PM - Petőfi '73
Colour, Hungarian, 89 min, 1973, Directed by Ferenc Kardos
Petőfi '73 was produced to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the poet's birth. High school students from Budapest and Pápa recalled the events of Petőfi's life in a "revolutionary passion play". The students reinterpreted Petőfi's revolutionary nature and in discussions clarified their own notions of revolutionary nature, their possibilities for action and their relationship to society - in the depths of the Kádár era, 17 years after '56.
Screenplay by Ferenc Kardos, István Kardos
Starring Mihály Kovács, Nóra Kovács, Can Togay, Tibor Csizmadia, Péter Blaskó, Csaba Oszkay, Péter Szuhay, Attila Kőhalmi, Péter Sváda, Péter Kőhalmi Ferenc Ferenc, Péter Sváda
Director of photography: János Kende
Editing by János Rózsa
Music by Levente Szörényi, László Tolcsvay, Béla Tolcsvay
Production Designer:Gábor Fehér, György Sós, Zsuzsa Répás, Andrea Petróczy, Alíz Macza
Costume designer: Béláné Szedő
Budapest Feature Film Studio
31/03/2023, 7PM - 80 Hussars
(1978, dir: Sándor Sára)
80 Hussars, a monumental historical film by the director-operator (Sándor Sára), tells the true story of the Lenkey Hussars who fled Poland in 1848 to fight for freedom. The Austrian imperial forces gradually mop up and execute the deserters. In their story, Sára depicts the obsessive and thoughtless assertion of homesickness and patriotism in a naturalistic way. The historical experiences of 1956 and '68 also filter through the film's scenes.