Encounter
A man, a woman, an afternoon, a city and an unspoken hope of finding love.
23'
Hungary
IFFR 2023
In a society that measures a human being’s value by productivity, few questions could be more subversive than those concerning the value of people who aren’t working. Elek explores this through a labourer forced into retirement and his young replacement, a peasant in an industrial school.
– Olaf Möller
IFFR 2023
- 60'
- Hungary
- 1968
- Director
- Judit Elek
- Country of production
- Hungary
- Year
- 1968
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2023
- Length
- 60'
- Medium
- DCP
- Original title
- Meddig él az ember? I-II
- Language
- Hungarian
- Production Company
- Béla Balázs Studio
- Sales
- National Film Institute Hungary
- Cinematography
- Elemér Ragályi
- Editor
- Éva Kármentõ
- Music
- András Szöllösy
- Cast
- Istvan Valovics, Pista Palztor
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
- 1968
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2023
- Length
- 60'
- Medium
- DCP
- Original title
- Meddig él az ember? I-II
- Language
- Hungarian
- Production Company
- Béla Balázs Studio
- Sales
- National Film Institute Hungary
- Cinematography
- Elemér Ragályi
- Editor
- Éva Kármentõ
- Music
- András Szöllösy
- Cast
- Istvan Valovics, Pista Palztor
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