by OLGS, guest blogger.
Last night, the Magyar Film Klub screened a 1956 movie, "Körhinta" ("Merry-Go-Round"). The Internet Movie Database has a short summary.
The film is set in the fall and winter of 1953-54, somewhere in the Hortobagy countryside near Debrecen. The opening scene took place in the fall, harvest carnival time in Debrecen, although I could not recognize the locale.
The Hungarians are very proud that "Körhinta" took second place at Cannes in 1956, although I must say that the film has not worn nearly as well as last week's "Somewhere in Europe." Our student group laughed aloud at the klunky Romeo-and-Juliet storyline. Also, rather than swoon at the leading man, Imre Soós, our crowd hooted when, lovelorn, he knit his forehead and his eyebrows overlapped! One interesting detail: the Juliet character, played by the actress Mari Töröcsik, has a family surname in the film of "Pataki." I never made the connection between that surname and the former governor of New York.
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