223 E 52nd Street, NY 10022
Due to the popular demand the Liszt Institute New York organizes two exclusive movie screenings featuring Lajos Koltai’s masterpiece, the movie Semmelweis. Join us on March 26, from 7PM at the Consulate General of Hungary or on March 30, from 6:30PM at the Hungarian House in New York to experience the multiple award-winning film!
The romantic period biopic created with the support of the NFI and produced by Szupermodern Filmstúdió explores the life and work of Ignác Semmelweis, a devoted Hungarian physician and scientist, who, defying traditional theories, strove to overcome one of the most devastating diseases of the 19th century, puerperal fever. The film shows him in 1847 and evokes the atmosphere of mid-19th-century Vienna, the life-or-death tragedies of the hospital at the time, the irreconcilable, entrenched conflicts between Austrian and Hungarian doctors, and the agonizing desire for love between a doctor and a nurse, a relationship socially unacceptable in those times.
SEMMELWEIS (2023), 124 minutes
Hungarian with English subtitles
- Director: Lajos Koltai
- Screenwriter: Balázs Maruszki
- Producer: Tamás Lajos, Joe Vida
- Editor: Zoltán Kovács
- Cinematographer: András Nagy
- Music Composer: Attila Pacsay
- Sound Designer: Rudolf Várhegyi
- Set Designer: Pater Sparrow
- Costumes: Györgyi Szakács
- Main cast with roles: Miklós H. Vecsei (as Ignác Semmelweis), Katica Nagy (as Emma Hoffmann), László Gálffy (as Klein)
Screenings:
- March 26, 2024, 7PM - Consulate General of Hungary (223 East 52nd St, New York, NY 10022)
- March 30, 2024, 6:30PM - Hungarian House in New York (213 E 82nd St, New York, NY 10028)
To register for the events, click on the registration tab on the right side of this page!
Admission is free of charge, but registration is required.
PLEASE, INDICATE AFTER YOUR NAME WHICH SCREENING YOU ARE REGISTERING FOR. WRITE "CONSULATE" FOR THE MARCH 26 SCREENING, AND "HUNGARIAN HOUSE" FOR THE MARCH 30 SCREENING.
