Evenings of Cinema | Cat's Play
26 March 2025. 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 March event we remember Péter Eötvös. On this occasion, we will screen Cat's Play, a film based on the short novel by István Örkény, and our guest will be composer László Tihanyi.
[vl]
CAT'S PLAY (MACSKAJÁTÉK)
Hungarian film drama, 1974, 99 min
directed by Károly Makk
written by István Örkény
screenplay by Károly Makk, Péter Bacsó
Cinematography by János Tóth
Editor: György Sivó
set designer: József Romvári
costume designer: Nelly Vágó
Composer: Péter Eötvös
Cast:
Dajka Margit, Bulla Elma, Balázs Samu, Makay Margit, Piros Ildikó, Törőcsik Mari, Dombrádi Éva, Bürös Gyöngyi, Szilágyi Tibor, Tyll Attila
Retired music teacher Erzsi Orbán lives in Budapest. For years she has been secretly in love with the former opera star Mr. Viktor. The only person who knows her secrets, memories and dreams is her terminally ill sister, who lives in Germany. Their endless telephone conversations and long letters form a colourful mosaic in which facts blend with fiction, myths become reality and small events take on enormous significance. The ritual of weekly encounters with Viktor takes on a dramatic tone when Paula, Erzsi's fated companion, appears. She is also not indifferent to the former singer, and in fact, she awakens mutual feelings in him. Erzsi Orbán is plunged into a tragic emotional crisis. ...
[vl]
The screening will be introduced by film- and music critic László Kolozsi (in Hungarian).
Guest:
László Tihanyi, composer
The film was provided by the National Film Institute Nonprofit Ltd.
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, 26th March 2025, the latest. Thanks for your understanding!