THE UPTHROWN STONE
(Feldobott kő)
Hungarian drama film, 1968, 84 min. - In Hungarian
directed and cinematographed by Sándor Sára
script: Sándor Sára, Sándor Csoóri, Ferenc Kósa
music by András Szőllősy
editor: Mihály Morell

Featuring: Lajos Balázsovits, Kati Berek, Todorov Todor, László Bánhidi, János Pásztor, Lajos Őze, József Bihary, Tibor Molnár, Sándor Kőmíves

Director and cinematographer Sándor Sára’s first feature film is an extraordinary modernist production and autobiographical work from the Hungarian new wave. Balázs Pásztor’s father is innocently imprisoned in the 1950s, while Balázs is rejected by the University of Film when he applies to study directing. Working as a land surveyor during the communist collectivisation, he attempts to organise a farm base with a Greek partisan couple, who are eventually killed by farm workers. Sára works with long, geometrical stills to portray suffering and the absurdity of the age.

The screening will be introduced by film- and music critic László Kolozsi (in Hungarian).

Guest: András Szekfű - film historian