MERRY-GO-ROUND
Specials
The unusual, unbound camerawork and the performance by the very young female lead Mari Törőcsik made this film, which has since become a classic, one of the most highly touted productions at the 9th Cannes International Film Festival in 1956. Mari Pataki, the daughter of an affluent farmer, falls in love with the young co-operative member Máté Biró. However, her father has other plans for her: following the principle “land marries land”, he has chosen the owner of a large farm to be his future son-in-law. At a village festival, the young lovers delight in the intoxicating charms of the eponymous swing carousel – alas for Mari there is still no way out of marrying the rich farmer. At the wedding, Máté causes a scandal when he dances a seemingly endless czardas with the bride. In the end, both love and the Stalinist ideals of the era manage to win out.
KARUSSELL
HUN 1955 / 90 min
Director: Zoltán Fábri
Screenings
- Caligari Sun, 28.04. / 11:00 Uhr
- Screenplay: László Nádasy, Zoltán Fábri
- Cinematographer: Barnabás Hegyi
- Editor: Ferencné Szécsényi
- Music: György Ránki
- Sound: György Pintér
- Cast: Mari Törőcsik, Imre Soós, Ádám Szirtes, Béla Barsi, Manyi Kiss, Gyula Bakos, Antal Farkas, Jószef Juhász, Flóra Kádár, Ervin Kibédi, Mária Kovács, László Kozák, János Makláry, László Misoga, Piri Peéry, Sándor Peti, Gellért Raksányi, Sándor Siménfalvy, Sándor Suka, Gyula id. Szabó, Viktória Ujváry, Irma Vass, Andrea Borbíró, László Halász, Margit Lubinszky, Zoltán Makláry, Lajos Tándor
- Print Owner: National Film Institute – Film Archive (info@filmarchiv.hu) (Hungary)
The unusual, unbound camerawork and the performance by the very young female lead Mari Törőcsik made this film, which has since become a classic, one of the most highly touted productions at the 9th Cannes International Film Festival in 1956. Mari Pataki, the daughter of an affluent farmer, falls in love with the young co-operative member Máté Biró. However, her father has other plans for her: following the principle “land marries land”, he has chosen the owner of a large farm to be his future son-in-law. At a village festival, the young lovers delight in the intoxicating charms of the eponymous swing carousel – alas for Mari there is still no way out of marrying the rich farmer. At the wedding, Máté causes a scandal when he dances a seemingly endless czardas with the bride. In the end, both love and the Stalinist ideals of the era manage to win out.
- Screenplay: László Nádasy, Zoltán Fábri
- Cinematographer: Barnabás Hegyi
- Editor: Ferencné Szécsényi
- Music: György Ránki
- Sound: György Pintér
- Cast: Mari Törőcsik, Imre Soós, Ádám Szirtes, Béla Barsi, Manyi Kiss, Gyula Bakos, Antal Farkas, Jószef Juhász, Flóra Kádár, Ervin Kibédi, Mária Kovács, László Kozák, János Makláry, László Misoga, Piri Peéry, Sándor Peti, Gellért Raksányi, Sándor Siménfalvy, Sándor Suka, Gyula id. Szabó, Viktória Ujváry, Irma Vass, Andrea Borbíró, László Halász, Margit Lubinszky, Zoltán Makláry, Lajos Tándor
- Print Owner: National Film Institute – Film Archive (info@filmarchiv.hu) (Hungary)