Posts Tagged ‘István Gaál’
Current
Sodrásban Hungary, 1963, black and white, 90 mins Also known as In the Current, this was the debut feature by the 30-year-old István Gaál, and has subsequently been recognised as one of the earliest films of an authentic Hungarian 'new wave'. Gaál had spent two years (1959-61) studying film at the Centro Sperimentale in Rome, and Current [...]
Gypsies
Cigányok Hungary, 1962, black and white, 17 mins If the IMDB is to be believed, this short documentary made for the renowned Béla Balázs Studio is the directorial debut of Sándor Sára, who went on to forge a distinguished career as both director of his own films and cinematographer of other people's, notably Ten Thousand Suns (Tízezer nap, [...]
István Gaál RIP
I was very sorry to hear about the death of Hungarian director István Gaál (1933-2007), because I'd only just discovered his work via Roots (Gyökerek), a marvellous three-part television documentary about the composer Béla Bartók, made in 2002 - which has just jumped to the top of my "to review" list. The Falcons (Magasiskola, 1970) is [...]