Evenings of Cinema | Song of the Cornfields
4 December 2024. 7:00 pm
Budapest Music Center - Library
1094 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 December event we will screen the Hungarian drama film Song of the Cornfields. Our guest will be composer Marcell Dargay.
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SONG OF THE CORNFIELDS
(Ének a búzamezőkről)
Hungarian drama film, 1947, 82 min. - In Hungarian
director, script writer: István Szőts
writer: Ferenc Móra
cinematographer: Árpád Makay, Barnabás Hegyi
editor: Mihály Morell
music by Tibor Polgár
Featuring:
János Görbe, Alice Szellay, József Bihari, Marcsa Simon, László Bánhidi
The First World War is raging. Men are at the Russian front, women and the elderly are working the land of the Great Plain village. POW Ferenc (János Görbe) escapes from captivity and finds his son living with the neighbour. After his wife died, the family of his comrade in arms took the child into their care. The man brings bad news: Rókus died in Siberia. After a while, Ferenc becomes close with the widow (Alice Szellay). They marry but the shadow of the past threatens their happiness...
The screening will be introduced by film- and music critic László Kolozsi (in Hungarian).
Guest:
Marcell Dargay, composer
Entry to the program is free, but due to the limited number of seats a primary registration via e-mail (papp.krisztina@bmc.hu) is requested by 12:00 noon, 4th December 2024, the latest. Thanks for your understanding!