2010. jún. 23.

Synopsis in English

Eastern Wind: the Film

Synopsis

Miqueu (Michel) is a musician. He resides in a little village in Provence. His wife, Niké, the painter is Hungarian and the two have a 24 –year-old son, Balthazar, a violinist.

Michel has been invited to play a concert in Budapest with Hungarian musicians. Michel asks Balthazar to help him. They head off.
To Baltazar, this trip is a return back to roots. He is half-Hungarian, after all. To Michel, this is a great opportunity to look up old friends he jammed with in the last forty years. Staging a concert with friends old and new.
They arrive for the Dance House Festival in Budapest, where Michel gets busy recruiting musicians for the concert.
Cue rehearsals with Vujicsics Band in Szentendre, and Márta Sebestyén, Ferenc Sebő, Csaba Ökrös in Budapest.
Finally, the concert on A38, the music moat. Everyone’s there.
The concert builds up by Michel playing an Occitan, French or other song, and the Hungarian musicians returning the serve with their own. Sort of a musical dialogue.

This is a musical journeys in space, time and spirit. Just as we are Trying to find our place in terms of tradition, within Europe.

György Szomjas filmography in English

György Szomjas
Director


Born in Budapest, 1940

He is a leading figure in the Hungarian film industry. In the seventies he was one of the initiators the „sociological documentary film program” of the Béla Balázs Studio. He has made 12 feature films, many documentaries and TV programs since 1976. He is interested in popular culture as traditional and city folklore. Some of his films, such as Light Physical Injuries, The Wall Driller, and Junk Movie were remarkably successful both with the public and professional circles. He has won awards for his work both abroad and in Hungary. Junk Movie has been running for three and a half years with daily screenings in the same Budapest theatre.

1968 Graduated from the Academy of Theatre and Film Art, Budapest
1969-1973 Management member of the Béla Balázs Studio
1995- Chairman of the Association of Hungarian Filmmakers
1998- Member of the European Film Academy

Awards:
1988 Balázs Béla Award
1992 B. Nagy László Award
1996 Outstanding Artist
2005 Kossuth Award


Filmography: Feature films

1976 Talpuk alatt fütyül a szél (The Wind is Whistling under Their Feet)
1978 Rosszemberek (Wrong-doers)
1981 Kopaszkutya (Bald-Dog-Rock)
1983 Könnyű testi sértés (Light Physical Injuries)
1985 Falfúró (The Wall Driller)
1987 Mr. Universe
1989 Könnyű vér (Fast and Loose)
1991 Roncsfilm (Junk Movie)
1994 Csókkal és körömmel ( Kisses and Scratches)
1998-99 Gengszterfilm (Gangsterfilm)
2002 Vagabond
2007 A Nap utcai fiúk (The Sun Street Boys)


Short Films:
1965 Fejek egymás között (Company of heads) – vizsgafilm
1966 Vertikális motívum – vizsgafilm
1967 Szabad szombat (Saturday Off)– vizsgafilm
1968 Diákszerelem (Student Love) – rövid játékfilm
1969 Tündérszép lány (Stunning Beauty) – rövid játékfilm
1996 Falfúró 2 (The Wall Driller 2)– rövid játékfilm
1999 Két videoklip a Ghymes együttessel
2007 Két videoklip Sebestyén Mártával és Ferenczi Györggyel

Dokumentary Films:
1969 Három király mi vagyunk (We are tree Kings of Orient) – dokumentumfilm
1970 Nászutak (Honeymoons)- dokumentumfilm
1970 Lányok (Girls) – dokumentumfilm
1971 Algyő – dokumentumfilm
1972 Füredi Anna-bál (The Anna Ball in Füred) – dokumentumfilm
1973 Gyakorlatok (Exercises) – dokumentumfilm
1989 Mulatság – Téka néptánc tábor Nagykállón (Amusement – Days of Peace and
Music)
1990 Szabad a tánc (Free to Dance) – Országos Táncháztalálkozó
1992 Szól a kakas már… (The Rooster is Crowing)- magyar zsidó népzene
1994 A szívben még megvan (Still in the Heart) – portré Zerkula János gyimesi
prímásról
1994 Rabja vagyok az életnek (I’m a Slave of Life) – portré Maneszes Márton
magyarszováti prímásról
1995 Pista bácsi, dudáljon kend (Play the Bagpipe Uncle Pista) – portré Pál István
nógrádi dudásról
1996 Amerikába jöttem (Back to the USA)– amerikai népzenék
1997 Magyarország szélin (At the Edge of Hungary) - portré Jánó Anna moldvai énekesről
1997 Hej, Kisandrás (Oh Little András) – portré Gergely András kalotaszegi énekesről
2000 Neti Sanyi – portré Fodor Sámuel kalotaszegi prímásról
2001 Járd ki, Zsiga (Dance, Zsiga, Dance) – portré Karsai Zsigmondról
2001 Megyek az uton lefelé (I’m Going Down the Road) – portré Szántó Ferenc
magyarbecei muzsikusról
2001 A szászcsávási banda (the Szászcsávás Band) – a világjáró cigányzenekar
2009 Mulatság 2
2010 Keleti szél: A film (Eastern Wind: the Film) – zenés dokumentumfilm Michel
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Budapest, April, 2010

2010. márc. 29.

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