black and white Hungarian film drama, 1963, Hungarian sound, English subtitles, 91'
- Director: Miklós Jancsó
- Screenplay: Gyula Hernádi
- Director of photography: Tamás Somló
- Music: Bálint Sárosi
- Starring Zoltán Latinovits, Andor Ajtay, Edit Domján
Date: August 5
Ambrus Jámbor (Zoltán Latinovits) is a young and successful surgeon. One day, after a shocking hospital experience, he decides to visit his long-lost father in the countryside. Miklós Jancsó's early film is one of the most programmatic works of Hungarian modernism, which became an epochal symbol with its theme of intellectuals' search for a way forward and the loss of roots.
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Cantata
Miklós Jancsó is a two-time Kossuth Prize and Béla Balázs Prize winner film director, one of the cult figures of Hungarian and universal cinema. Called "The Master" by Martin Scorsese, Miklós Jancsó's films are characterised by unusually long cuts, which means continuous footage without editing. Cantata was his debut as a writer-director, co-written with his long-term collaborator Gyula Hernádi, where the formal language devices that define the director's style are already emerging. The filmmakers reworked József Lengyel's short story of the same title in the spirit of Michelangelo Antonioni (the film was admittedly influenced by the modernist classic La notte [The Night] [1961]) and by their own experiences. Alongside Károly Makk's The Obsessed Ones (1962), János Herskó's Dialogue (1963) and István Gaál's The Current (1964), Cantata launched the Hungarian New Wave.