2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY
American sci-fi, 1968, 141 min. - In Hungarian
director: Stanley Kubrick
screenplay by Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke
cinematography: Geoffrey Unsworth
editor: Ray Lovejoy
production design: Harry Lange, Ernest Archer, Anthony Masters
producer: Stanley Kubrick
music by György Ligeti, Richard Strauss, Johann Strauss

Featuring: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, Leonard Rossiter, William Sylvester, Margaret Tyzack, Sean Sullivan, Robert Beatty, Douglas Rain, Daniel Richter

"2001" is a story of evolution. Sometime in the distant past, someone or something nudged evolution by placing a monolith on Earth (presumably elsewhere throughout the universe as well). Evolution then enabled humankind to reach the moon's surface, where yet another monolith is found, one that signals the monolith placers that humankind has evolved that far. Now mankind, assisted by artificial intelligence (such as HAL), must dare to encounter the monolith placers. If successful, the next step in evolution will be achieved.

The screening will be introduced by film- and music critic László Kolozsi (in Hungarian).


Guest: Marcell Dargay, composer