Film Archive

Jahr

Retrospective 2023
Filmstill Deadlock
Deadlock
Ferenc Rófusz
“It’s all over.” The worst possible fate for opponents of the regime, underlaid by a reference to “The Unkown Soldier” by The Doors. Radically simple and maximally impressive.
Filmstill Deadlock

Deadlock

Holtpont
Ferenc Rófusz
Retrospective 2023
Animated Film
Hungary
1982
4 minutes
without dialogue
Subtitles: 
None

An execution illustrated from the point of view of the condemned man, with a musical reference to the song “The Unknown Soldier” by The Doors. Ferenc Rófusz’s film may not have been a direct statement about the roughly 200 death sentences issued against all manner of opponents of the regime in Hungary after the uprising, but its poignancy speaks for itself.

Katharina Franck, Andreas Kötzing

Credits DOK Leipzig Logo

Director
Ferenc Rófusz
Cinematographer
Zoltán Bacsó, József Gujdár
Editor
Kaim Katalin
Producer
Olga Auguszt
Sound
Zsebényi Béla
Retrospective 2023
Filmstill Mind the Steps!
Mind the Steps!
István Orosz
Loneliness and threat, translated into surreal images in which the oppressive Hungarian reality of life under communism in the 1980s allegorically meets the 1956 uprising.
Filmstill Mind the Steps!

Mind the Steps!

Vigyázat, lépcső!
István Orosz
Retrospective 2023
Animated Film
Hungary
1989
6 minutes
without dialogue
Subtitles: 
None

A feeling of fear spreads: In an apartment building, the stairs follow no logic, men get lost with a wardrobe, everyone is lonely. The surreal threat suddenly becomes real when security agents ring the doorbell: “Csengőfrász”, the symbol for the arbitrary arrest of citizens allegedly hostile to the state from the time of the Hungarian Uprising.

Katharina Franck, Andreas Kötzing

Credits DOK Leipzig Logo

Director
István Orosz
Cinematographer
Zoltán Bacsó
Editor
Magda Hap