223 E 52nd Street, NY 10022
The Liszt Institute New York's brand new summer screening series Hungarian Movie Nights brings you some of the best, award-winning Hungarian movies of the last couple of years. On July 11, 2024 from 7PM we are thrilled to present Barnabás Lóth's exciting thriller, Mastergame.
Synopsis
Mastergame (2023), 90 minutes
In this free adaptation of Stefan Zweig’s ’The Royal Game’, a young rebel couple is escaping from the Russian tanks in Budapest in 1956. They manage to board on one of the last refugee trains. Meanwhile a young catholic priest is imprisoned and tortured by the communists in order to deliver information about a large parcel of Vatican treasures. On this train these story lines are crossing during an exciting chess game, and it turns out that almost nobody and nothing is what it seems to be.
The movie is in Hungarian with English subtitles.
The event is free of charge but registration is required.
The Hungarian Movie Nights summer movie screening series is supported by the National Film Institute.