EVENINGS OF CINEMA | VÁRDAI - NON SOLO CELLO
2 October 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.
In October, we will screen the portrait-documentary VÁRDAI - non SOLO CELLO, which was filmed over four years and premiered this year. Our guests will be Eszter Száraz, the film's creator, and its "protagonist", cellist István Várdai.
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VÁRDAI - non SOLO CELLO
Hungarian porte documentary film, 2024, 78 min. - In Hungarian
director, script writer, producer: Eszter Száraz
director of photography: Botond Nagy, Gergő Somogyvári
editor: Dániel Kapi
sound recording, producer: Márton Ecsedy
TRIONfilm Productions
2024
Realised with support from the National Film Institute Hungary
István Várdai, the world-class Hungarian musician, still only in his thirties, is one of the most sought-after cellists of our time. His story, with a glimpse into his life, reveals what comes with having unique talent. Is it a blessing? Or a burden, making life more difficult? What happens when ambition comes with a huge sense of mission?
The screening will be introduced by film- and music critic László Kolozsi (in Hungarian).
Guest:
Eszter Száraz, director and István Várdai, cellist
The registration list is full, we cannot accept further applications.