Zoltán Fráter: The two one-and-onlys - The greatest loves of Frigyes Karinthy

The Madách Theatre – Budapest presents:

Zoltán Fráter

THE TWO ONE-AND-ONLYS – THE GREAT LOVES OF FRIGYES KARINTHY

A Streamed Film-Play in Hungarian with English subtitles (12+, 55 mins).

Madách Theatre’s brand-new streamed film-play brings to life the two great loves of the famous Hungarian writer, poet and essayist Frigyes Karinthy (1887-1938), which playfully uses the facts of the writer's life, showing the tragicomic friction between the „two one-and-onlys” and the startling changes in Karinthy's life.

Frigyes Karinthy is twenty-five years old when he escapes his great love, the actress Etel Judik, with three children, under adventurous circumstances. They hide from the anger of the husband in Berlin for half a year, then reconcile the husband with a larger sum and get married in Budapest. From the nickname „beetle, beetle”, the writer gives the name Boga to his beloved partner, who will be the victim of a Spanish flu epidemic that erupts after World War I.

Karinthy writes in his diary after his wife's death: „I feel like a tumor developed in my brain when she died...”. After almost two years, the grieving man, taking a phone joke invitation seriously, gets to know the married woman, doctor Aranka Böhm. Aranka, who is passionate about conquering all men, has been coloring the everyday life of marriage with her emotional storms for a decade and a half, when Karinthy, who has been thinking of Boga with unquenchable love all along, really needs surgery in 1936.

The writer is hovering between life and death fights two women at once – in imagination with Boga, in reality with Aranka…