Silent films with live music - Film concerts on Hungarian Film Day
This spring, Uránia is inviting its audience to go on a film music adventure. Starting at the end of February and running until the end of April, Hungarian Film Day, the programme will include screenings, audience meetings and live music programmes, drawing attention to the invisible but very important sound-music dimension of films.
The highlight of the series, and the festive closing event, will be a screening of two silent film classics accompanied by live music on 30 April at 19:30, with Norbert Káel on piano and Ádám Szabó on accordion
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Details, tickets: https://urania.jegy.hu/.../filmzene-a-magyar-film-hoskora....
This year we will celebrate Hungarian Film Day at Urania with two real film rarities. The first screening will be the public screening of Munkászubbonyt - István Bródy's 110-year-old crime film starring Gyula Hegedűs, which was released in Amsterdam a few years ago and then fully restored in the Film Archive here in Hungary.
The centrepiece of the programme is the 1915 farce Dódi's Career, which is not only well connected to the former because it is also directed by István Bródy. They also share a common cinematographer, Béla Zsitkovszky, Uránia's first technician and cinematographer. He was the first Hungarian filmmaker, the technician and technician of the Urządz, who once recorded the first Hungarian film, A táncz, on the roof of the building, the premiere of which in 1901 marked the beginning of Hungarian film history. This is commemorated every year on 30 April, Hungarian Film Day.
This year, on this festive evening, which is also the final chord of our FILM/ZENE series, two excellent musicians will help us to "sound" the films. Norbert Káel, pianist, will accompany The Worker's Jacket with his own composition, and Ádám Szabó, accordionist, will underline the career of Dódi.
The screening is part of Uránia's FILM/ZENE series. The full programme is available here: https://urania-nf.hu/.../2492/2024/02/27/film-zene-sorozat
The National Film Institute - Film Archive is a partner of the screening.
The series is supported by the National Cultural Fund.
Uránia Nemzeti Filmszínház
The Uránia National Film Theatre is unique among Hungarian cinemas as it is the only national film and cultural centre operating as an institute It is the film profession’s counterpart of the National Theatre and the Opera House, of which most important task is to present and show the treasures of contemporary and classical film art as well as organising film clubs, national and international film festivals, and other events (first nights).