The Danube Exodus

Péter Forgács. Hidden Histories

From 1st to 27th October | online on MyMovies

It’s 1938 and Hitler expands his influence on Austria and Czechoslovakia: the Czechoslovakian puppet government wuickly turns anti-Semitic and Aron Grünhut, president of the Jew Orthodox community in Bratislava, arranges for the escape of about 900 Jews on two ships: one of this is the Queen Elizabeth. The entire trip, with its cargo of displaced people from Bratislava to the Black Sea along the Danube, is recorded by captain Nándor Andrásovits who keeps his “ship log” with an amateur camera.

On another ship, the Noemi Julia, the travellers will get to their final destination: Palestine. Meanwhile, Hitler signs the treaty for the alliance with Stalin; the agreement between the two countries establishes the transfer of a part of Romania (the Bessarabia) to the Soviet Union. The German people living there must be repatriated to Germany, and the Nazi headquarters rents the Queen Elizabeth to bring back in the homeland the German citizens. On the deck of that vey ship, two people’s destinies cross: the drama of people forced to live their land to make room for History’s reasons.

The archive images recovered and edited by Forgács outline a journey halfway from the biblical exodus and the lightheartedness of an unexpected adventure. The faces, in front of Andrásovitz’s camera, open up with a smile, curious. The films fix the moments of carefreeness: a wedding, dances on the deck, someone sunbathing, the beauty of girls. It’s the landscape images, instead, that outline a universe made of water and sky, space of the mythological tale in which to renew the walk toward the promised land. And it is Tibor Szemzö to dig into the images and to resurface the feeling of nostalgia and the pain for a lost homeland. In The Danube Exodus, the exodus becomes the key concept to understand the story of World War II and to read the identity of the Jewish people.

regia

Péter Forgács

running time

60'

film format

video | B&W and colour

year

1998

Country

The Netherlands

Composer

Tibor Szemzö

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11th October, 21.00  | Auditorium DAMSLab - Piazzetta P. P. Pasolini 5b, Bologna 
Meeting and screening with Péter Forgács
 

[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="50px"][vc_column_text]Considered to be a master of found footage film and a pioneer in the archiving and re-working of amateur films, Péter Forgács is going to be in Bologna on October 11th to introduce the first Italian preview of the last two films in the Private Hungary series: Kemény György and Venom – A Diva in Exile.

 

Kemény György | 68', 2017, Hungary

The passionate portrait of Hungarian pop artist György Kemény, very much known in his country for posters, album covers, graphics and the “social” advertisement. Kemény is also a sculptor and author of modern installations, and performances. As with other protagonists in his films, Forgács draws a voyage through the XX Century and its “hidden stories”, with the life of the eighty-year-old Kemény, in this case told personally by him. The narrative has its counterpoint in the private films and in the abundant iconographic material, contextualised à la Forgács.

Chapter XIX of the “Private Hungary” series, the huge work-in-progress that Forgács started in 1988. 

 

Venom – A Diva in Exile | 29’, 2018, Hungary

Venom – A Diva in Exile (2018) is based on the tale of the same name by writer Zsófia Bán, about the troubled story of singer and Hungarian film star Katalin Karády. Diva in the Horthy era, she was accused of espionage during the war, imprisoned, tortured and banished from the radio and the theatres of her own country. After being released, she strived for saving numerous Jewish families, while the disappearance of the man she was connected to, arrested by the Nazis, first, and then by the Soviets, brought her to despair. Heartbroken, castaway and banished by the new Communsit regime, she went into exile in 1951, spending 15 years in San Paolo, Brazil, never playing in films or on stage anymore. She then lived in New York until her death (1990).

 

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[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="50px"][vc_column_text]The 8mm film diary of a couple, shot between 1936 and 1966. 

Budapest is a ghost-like city, where phantasmal shadows shift in a snowy view, in the clutch of cold and wind. Jenö is a bank clerk living in the elegant districts of the city, with his wife Dusi and their purebred dog. Since 1936 Jenö keeps a film diary in which he records, preferably, the moments spent with his wife and the in-laws, but also visions of his city and its worldly life: the entrance of a hotel, the crowd in front of a theatre, the elegant vehicles in the streets. 

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Everything we see could also be otherwise.

Everything we can describe at all could also be otherwise.

Pèter Forgács
 

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György Petö, middle-class and excellent mingling Jew, takes control of the family bank when his father dies in 1936. Passionate about music and boats, Petö buys an 8mm camera at the end of the ‘30s, and quickly become a prolific home movies producer, on which he fixes his love for his girlfriend Eva Lengyel, boat trips, holidays, anniversaries, friendships (among his friends, the great maestro Ferenc Fricsay), his marriage in 1941.

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11th October, 21.00  | Auditorium DAMSLab - Piazzetta P. P. Pasolini 5b, Bologna 
Meeting and screening with Péter Forgács
 

[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height="50px"][vc_column_text]Considered to be a master of found footage film and a pioneer in the archiving and re-working of amateur films, Péter Forgács is going to be in Bologna on October 11th to introduce the first Italian preview of the last two films in the Private Hungary series: Kemény György and Venom – A Diva in Exile.

 

Kemény György | 68', 2017, Hungary

The passionate portrait of Hungarian pop artist György Kemény, very much known in his country for posters, album covers, graphics and the “social” advertisement. Kemény is also a sculptor and author of modern installations, and performances. As with other protagonists in his films, Forgács draws a voyage through the XX Century and its “hidden stories”, with the life of the eighty-year-old Kemény, in this case told personally by him. The narrative has its counterpoint in the private films and in the abundant iconographic material, contextualised à la Forgács.

Chapter XIX of the “Private Hungary” series, the huge work-in-progress that Forgács started in 1988. 

 

Venom – A Diva in Exile | 29’, 2018, Hungary

Venom – A Diva in Exile (2018) is based on the tale of the same name by writer Zsófia Bán, about the troubled story of singer and Hungarian film star Katalin Karády. Diva in the Horthy era, she was accused of espionage during the war, imprisoned, tortured and banished from the radio and the theatres of her own country. After being released, she strived for saving numerous Jewish families, while the disappearance of the man she was connected to, arrested by the Nazis, first, and then by the Soviets, brought her to despair. Heartbroken, castaway and banished by the new Communsit regime, she went into exile in 1951, spending 15 years in San Paolo, Brazil, never playing in films or on stage anymore. She then lived in New York until her death (1990).

 

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Hidden Histories. Live Screening
with Péter Forgács

Incontro e proiezione con Péter Forgács - A Bologna l'11 ottobre la presentazione in anteprima assoluta italiana degli ultimi due film della serie Private Hungary: Kemény György e Venom – A Diva in Exile.

In Péter Forgács. Hidden Histories 11.10 / 11.10.2021