How Long Does Man Live?
What is a human being worth in a society that measures value by productivity?
60'
Hungary
IFFR 2023
A man, a woman, an afternoon, a city, and an unspoken, hopeful desire to find love by way of the personal ads. A milestone of Hungarian cinema, Elek uses documentary techniques in a fiction context to make the frailty of everyday life as palpable as possible.
– Olaf Möller
IFFR 2023
- 23'
- Hungary
- 1963
- Director
- Judit Elek
- Country of production
- Hungary
- Year
- 1963
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2023
- Length
- 23'
- Medium
- DCP
- Original title
- Találkozás
- Language
- Hungarian
- Production Company
- Béla Balázs Studio
- Sales
- National Film Institute Hungary
- Screenplay
- Judit Elek
- Cinematography
- István Zöldi
- Editor
- Miklós Jancsó
- Music
- András Szöllösy
- Cast
- Iván Mándy
Also in this combined programme
Inhabitants of Castles in Hungary in 1966
A look at the present use of several Hungarian castles and some of their former owners.
27'
Hungary
IFFR 2023
- Director
- Judit Elek
- Country of production
- Hungary
- Year
- 1963
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2023
- Length
- 23'
- Medium
- DCP
- Original title
- Találkozás
- Language
- Hungarian
- Production Company
- Béla Balázs Studio
- Sales
- National Film Institute Hungary
- Screenplay
- Judit Elek
- Cinematography
- István Zöldi
- Editor
- Miklós Jancsó
- Music
- András Szöllösy
- Cast
- Iván Mándy
Programme IFFR 2023
Focus: Judit Elek
Judit Elek (1937) is among world cinema’s most uncompromising figures. Beloved by IFFR founder Huub Bals, yet to this day little known in wider circles, Elek made both fiction and documentary films that are almost brutally personal, reflecting as much the history of her native Hungary as her own trauma-riddled life. International Film Festival Rotterdam is honoured to present the most complete retrospective so far of an auteur whose works and wisdom are needed today as urgently as ever.
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Concert documentary about a performance of Chasidic songs by composer Max/Miksa/Mihai Eisikovits.
72'
Hungary
IFFR 2023
Awakening
Film à clef of Judit Elek's teenage years in 1950s Budapest, between Stalinist rule and first longings.
110'
Hungary
IFFR 2023
A Commonplace Story
Part two of Judit Elek’s Istenmezején documentary, where relationships with locals get both tighter and more ambivalent.
104'
Hungary
IFFR 2023