General information

Call No.:

320-1-4:16/1

Part of series

HU OSA 320-1-4 Photographs and Home Movie Collection of Privát Fotó és Film Alapivány: Films: Péter Forgács Art Documentaries

Located at

DVD-ROM #16 / No. 1

Digital ver. identifier

HU OSA 320-1-4_016

Original Title

Bibó breviárium (Privát Magyarország 13)

Date of production

2001

Date

2001

Level

Item

Primary Type

Moving image

Language

Hungarian, English

Duration

1 hour 9 min.

Content

Form/Genre

Documentary film

Contents Summary

In his work Péter Forgács presents a poetic overview of the Hungarian terrain in the twentieth century, with the use of magically composed, scratched found footage. As before, he collaborates with composer Tibor Szemzõ, whose mesmerizing music glides us through Hungarian and Middle European history and landscape. A Bibó Reader brings us closer to the eternal and crystal-clear conclusions of the greatest Hungarian political thinker of the 20th century. István Bibó, philosopher, and minister during the 1956 Hungarian revolution, was sentenced to life imprisonment, but later released under an amnesty. He never gave up his faith in freedom. The sensitive rendering of Bibó's social and historical analysis, the meditative texts pace this unique film vision from one chapter to the next. The fascinating images and sounds offer the viewer the unexpectedly special and profound experience.

Context

Associated Names

Forgács, Péter (Director)

Magyar Televízió (MTV) (Producer)

Fiatal Művészek Stúdiója (FMS) (Producer)

Balász Béla Stúdió (BBS) (Producer)