Movies: György Petri

  • 1975
    Requiem for a Revolutionary

    Requiem for a Revolutionary (1975)

    Requiem for a Revolutionary

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    The royal summary court sentences Sallai Imre and Fürst Sándor to death on charges of attempting to uproot the state and the social order. The film, the story of which takes place in 1932, enlarges the moment of delivering the death-sentence. Sallai,...

    Requiem for a Revolutionary
  • 1979
    The Last Judgement But One

    The Last Judgement But One (1979)

    The Last Judgement But One

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    The man is promoted and given a new assignment at his work-place. At home, he stares at a video-cassette: it portrays his wife's face in countless versions, she is sometimes simply beautiful, then unfathomable, but it is mostly a sad, closed, lonely ...

    The Last Judgement But One
  • 1980
    The Trial of Martinovics and the Hungarian Jacobins

    The Trial of Martinovics and the Hungarian Jacobins (1980)

    The Trial of Martinovics and the Hungarian Jacobins

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    For this austere, clear and sharp telefeature, Judit Elek focused on the last months of Martinovics’ life: his interrogation by the Austrians, the examining Magistrate Schilling in particular, shown as a battle of wits as well as delusions on both si...

    The Trial of Martinovics and the Hungarian Jacobins
  • 1985
    In memoriam Hajnóczy Péter

    In memoriam Hajnóczy Péter (1985)

    In memoriam Hajnóczy Péter

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    The footage was shot in the writer's room a few days after his death. Everything in the room was untouched. The poet György Petri reads from one of Péter Hajnóczy's works, Miss Embolia. A sacred image of the Eastern European "beaten generation."...

    In memoriam Hajnóczy Péter
  • 2021
    Bagatelle

    Bagatelle (2021)

    Bagatelle

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    A short semi-animated experimental film about the ups and downs of nose-blowing and probably life itself. Csáki's latest animation tests of various technics and his Super8 recordings are compiled as a found footage film, which might reflect to the CO...

    Bagatelle