PHYSICAL PROGRAMME
At 2.30 pm Workshop
Conducted by Prof. Balazs Varga, Associate Professor of Film Studies at ELTE, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary
At 6.30 pm Father (Apa/Hungary)
(88 min; 1966; dvd; Hungarian with English subtitles)
Director: István Szabó
Recipient of the Special Prize of the Jury, Locarno International Film Festival 1967; Grand Prix, Moscow International Film Festival 1967; Golden Moon Award for Best Screenplay, Faro Island Film Festival 1966; and CEC Award, Valladolid International Film Festival 1968
After his father is killed in World War II, a young Hungarian boy named Tako concocts a fantasy image of the parent he never really knew.
Essentially a coming of age story told in two parts, the first half of this film is set in 1949 and deals with young Tako (Daniel Erdely) as a schoolboy whose father (Miklos Gabor), a doctor, died at the end of WW2. Being too young to really remember his father, the boy invents and imagines stories about him, so he becomes a kind of mythological figure in his mind. The second half of the film takes place in 1956 just before the Hungarian uprising, Tako (Andras Balint) is now a university student and a man who still struggles with the memories of his father and sets out to discover the man he really was.
A well-made story, quite moving but never over-sentimental that excels particularly in the various imagined heroic flashback scenes of the father, with Miklos Gabor doing a fine job in that role. Hungarian film legend Andras Balint plays the older Tako brilliantly as a young man searching for the truth about his past.
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