EVENINGS OF CINEMA | THE DANUBE EXODUS
17. April 2024. 7:00 pm
Budapest Music Center - Library
1093 Budapest, Mátyás utca 8.
In our series "Evenings of Cinema" we screen mostly Hungarian films, whose music and its creators are particularly dear and important to us. Both feature films and documentaries are on offer, from the dawn of cinema as well as from the recent past. And to make the experience even more complete, we will also invite the composers of the selected films (or their close colleagues and friends) to a conversation. Our host is film and music critic László Kolozsi, who is also a novelist and screenwriter, the latter of which he also teaches at MOME.
At our April event we will screen the film The Danube Exodus by Péter Forgács. Our guest will be the director Péter Forgács and the composer of the film Tibor Szemző.
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THE DANUBE EXODUS
Hungarian documentary, 1998, 60 min.
director, writer: Péter Forgács
cinematography: Nándor Andrásovits
editor: Kati Juhász
sound mix: Zsolt Hubay
music perfored by Gordiusi Csomó (Gordius Knot)
music recording: István Horváth
video graphics: Zoltán Vida
film retouch: Márton Kurutz
composer: Tibor Szemző
In the summer of 1939, the president of the Jewish community in Bratislava hires two river cruise ships to bring a group of almost 900 Jews from Slovakia, Hungary and Austria down the Danube to the Black Sea. From there they will sail on to Palestine. One of the ships was the Erzsébet Királyné (Queen Elisabeth), under the command of Captain Nándor Andrásovits, also an avid amateur filmmaker. His cinematic impressions of life on board are combined with excerpts from letters and diary entries written by the ship’s passengers.
A year later, Captain Andrasovits and his ship are back in the Black Sea to transport hundreds of refugees again, this time up the river. The German community from Bessarabia (in the southwestern part of present-day Ukraine) is looking for safety after the country their forefathers settled in a century before gets invaded by the Soviet army.
The screening will be introduced by film- and music critic László Kolozsi (in Hungarian).
Guests: Péter Forgács, director and Tibor Szemző, composer
Entry to the program is free, but due to the limited number of seats (80) a primary registration via e-mail (papp.krisztina@bmc.hu) is requested by 12:00 noon, 17th April 2024, the latest. Thanks for your understanding!