SONG OF THE CORNFIELDS
(Ének a búzamezőkről)
Hungarian drama film, 1947, 82 min. - In Hungarian
director, script writer: István Szőts
writer: Ferenc Móra
cinematographer: Árpád Makay, Barnabás Hegyi
editor: Mihály Morell
music by Tibor Polgár

Featuring:
János Görbe, Alice Szellay, József Bihari, Marcsa Simon, László Bánhidi

The First World War is raging. Men are at the Russian front, women and the elderly are working the land of the Great Plain village. POW Ferenc (János Görbe) escapes from captivity and finds his son living with the neighbour. After his wife died, the family of his comrade in arms took the child into their care. The man brings bad news: Rókus died in Siberia. After a while, Ferenc becomes close with the widow (Alice Szellay). They marry but the shadow of the past threatens their happiness...

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


Guest: Marcell Dargay, composer