I guess I am crazy about Hungarian movies

I have just come back from a longer trip to Hungary with two new Hungarian movies on DVD, Szöke Kóla and Szabadság Szerelem. And today I went through one of the shopping centres downtown Oslo and bought Taxidermia. For the frequent readers of my blog (Kontroll and Csak szex és más semmi – Eng: Just sex and nothing else) this might not come as a shock!

I have no information about the movie Szöke Kóla, and I don’t know any of the actors/actresses appearing. Even IMBD seems to lack information. I just found it on sale and wanted to give it a shot. It is obiviously a comedy, and if language gets to difficult, there is at least English subtitles available.

To be honest I am far more excited to see Andrew G. Vajna’s Szabadság Szerelem – Eng: Children of Glory. There are a few reasons for this, first of all, my father escaped Hungary in 1956 and this is a period of Hungarian and European history that I would like to learn more about. The second reason Csányi Sándor and Dobó Kata appear in the movie. They both played in Csak szex és más semmi. Csányi Sándor also played in Kontroll. I was actually on the edge of taking a trip down to Budapest last autumn to see this movie on a cinema there. The story takes place at the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne, the Hungarian water polo team faces off against the Russians in what will become known as one of the bloodiest matches in the sport’s history. The movie has a little bit of everything, as the genres can be said to be drama, war, romance and history.

György Pálfy’s Taxidermia did, as Kontroll, go for a long time on the cinemas here in Oslo. The newspaper Dagbladet gave it a brilliant review (6/6): “Genialt og grisete. Sterkt, provoserende og innovativt. Satirisk film på høyt nivå.“. Sadly, I didn’t manage to get to see it then. The movie has a grotesque tale of three generations of men, about a grandfather, an orderly during the 2nd World War, lives in his bizzare fantasies; he desires love. The huge father seaks success as a top athlete – a speedeater – in the postwar pro-Soviet era. The grandson is a taxidermist that yearns for something greater: Immortality. He wants to create the most perfect work of art of all time by suffing his own torso. In short, the movie features scenes of speed- eating, vomiting and human disembowelment, alongside the sex. Perhaps not my kind of movie, and I am not sure that I will like it. But I will see it!