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THE MAIDEN DANCED TO DEATH
DEVIŠKI PLES SMRTI GENRE/format: FEATURE FILM / celovečerni igrani film
DURATION/dolžina: 100 MIN YEAR/leto: 2011 |
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SCREENWRITER/scenarist: ENDRE HULES
DIRECTOR/režiser: ENDRE HULES CAST/vloge: ENDRE HULES, ZSOLT LÁSZLÓ, BEÁTA MELKVI, DEBORAH KARA UNGER, STEPHEN MCHATTIE, EMÖKE ZSIGMOND, BORIS CAVAZZA, GIL BELLOWS DOP/direktor fotografije: VILMOS ZSIGMOND PRODUCTION DESIGNERS/scenograf: DUŠKO MILAVEC, ZSUZSA EINHORN COSTUME DESIGNER/kostumografinja: BRECKL JÁNOS KEY MAKE-UP ARTIST/kreatorka maske: MÁRTA MAGDOLNA CHOREOGRAPHER/koreograf: ZSURÁFSZKY ZOLTÁN |
MUSIC/avtor glasbe: FERENC KISS
EDITOR/montažer: MARK ADAM FEATURING/v sodelovanju: THE HONVED DANCE COMPANY PRODUCER/producent: CINEMAFILM (Hungary) COPRODUCERS/koproducenti: QUIET REVOLUTION PICTURES (Canada), Casablanca Film Production (Slovenia) WITH PARTICIPATION/s sodelovanjem HUNGARIAN FILM FUNDS, EURIMAGES, SLOVENIAN FILM FUND, THE ONTARIO MEDIA DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION AND MEDIA PROGRAMME |
ABOUT/vsebina:
„LIFE IS A DANCE, BROTHER, BUT YOU DON’T CHOOSE THE MUSIC.“
WHEN STEVE, A DANCER-TURNED-IMPRESARIO, RETURNS TO HIS NATIVE HUNGARY AFTER A 20-YEAR ABSENCE, HE FINDS MANY THINGS DIFFERENT. THE COMMUNIST REGIME THAT EXPELLED HIM IS GONE, LIFE HAS CHANGED FOR THE BETTER AND HIS FORMER APPARATCHIK FATHER HAD RETIRED IN DISGRACE. BUT HIS BROTHER, GYULA, WHOM HE USED TO IDOLIZE, HASN'T CHANGED ONE BIT. HE STILL WORKS IN THE SAME RUN-DOWN STUDIO WITH THE SAME CASH-STRAPPED DANCE COMPANY THEY BOTH STARTED OUT IN - AND HE IS MARRIED TO STEVE'S FORMER SWEETHEART, MARI. „DANCING TO DEATH“ BECOMES THE SYMBOL OF THE EVERYDAY COMPROMISES WE WILLINGLY MAKE, AND TESTS THE LIMIT, WHERE THE “NECESSARY EVIL,” TURNS INTO A “DANCE WITH THE DEVIL,” THE BETRAYAL OF OUR PRINCIPLES, OUR LOVED ONES, AND OUR VERY ESSENCE. “THE MAIDEN DANCED TO DEATH” IS A RECKONING WITH OLD SHADOWS, AND AN EXAMINATION OF THE INDIVIDUAL‘S SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY IN OLD AND NEW EUROPE.
„Življenje je ples, brat, a glasbe si ne izbiraš sam.“
Ko se STEVE, bivši plesalec in zdaj impresarij, odloči zapustiti Montréal, da bi se vrnil k svojim koreninam po 20-letni odsotnosti, spozna, da se je v njegovi Madžarski marsikaj spremenilo. Komunističnega režima, zaradi katerega je moral oditi, ni več. Življenje je boljše. Njegov oče, komunistični aparatčik, je upokojen. Le njegov starejši brat GYULA, ki je bil včasih njegov idol, se ni prav nič spremenil. Še vedno dela v starem plesnem studiu z obubožano plesno skupino, kjer sta brata pravzaprav začela plesati. Poročen je z MARI, v katero je bil tudi STEVE nekoč zaljubljen. Zaradi pomanjkanja subvencij GYULA ne more postaviti nove predstave. Stara zgodba "Deviški ples smrti" postane ozadje in alegorija za vsakodnevne kompromise in opravičila, ki se jih zavedamo. "Neizogibno zlo" , "ples s hudičem na robu britvice" pa postane "Ples smrti", izdajstvo naših principov, nadarjenosti, naših bližnjih in našega bistva. S prikazom bogastva plesa, glasbe in umetnosti je Deviški ples smrti tudi praznovanje novega "plesa" življenja v Vzhodni Evropi.
„LIFE IS A DANCE, BROTHER, BUT YOU DON’T CHOOSE THE MUSIC.“
WHEN STEVE, A DANCER-TURNED-IMPRESARIO, RETURNS TO HIS NATIVE HUNGARY AFTER A 20-YEAR ABSENCE, HE FINDS MANY THINGS DIFFERENT. THE COMMUNIST REGIME THAT EXPELLED HIM IS GONE, LIFE HAS CHANGED FOR THE BETTER AND HIS FORMER APPARATCHIK FATHER HAD RETIRED IN DISGRACE. BUT HIS BROTHER, GYULA, WHOM HE USED TO IDOLIZE, HASN'T CHANGED ONE BIT. HE STILL WORKS IN THE SAME RUN-DOWN STUDIO WITH THE SAME CASH-STRAPPED DANCE COMPANY THEY BOTH STARTED OUT IN - AND HE IS MARRIED TO STEVE'S FORMER SWEETHEART, MARI. „DANCING TO DEATH“ BECOMES THE SYMBOL OF THE EVERYDAY COMPROMISES WE WILLINGLY MAKE, AND TESTS THE LIMIT, WHERE THE “NECESSARY EVIL,” TURNS INTO A “DANCE WITH THE DEVIL,” THE BETRAYAL OF OUR PRINCIPLES, OUR LOVED ONES, AND OUR VERY ESSENCE. “THE MAIDEN DANCED TO DEATH” IS A RECKONING WITH OLD SHADOWS, AND AN EXAMINATION OF THE INDIVIDUAL‘S SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY IN OLD AND NEW EUROPE.
„Življenje je ples, brat, a glasbe si ne izbiraš sam.“
Ko se STEVE, bivši plesalec in zdaj impresarij, odloči zapustiti Montréal, da bi se vrnil k svojim koreninam po 20-letni odsotnosti, spozna, da se je v njegovi Madžarski marsikaj spremenilo. Komunističnega režima, zaradi katerega je moral oditi, ni več. Življenje je boljše. Njegov oče, komunistični aparatčik, je upokojen. Le njegov starejši brat GYULA, ki je bil včasih njegov idol, se ni prav nič spremenil. Še vedno dela v starem plesnem studiu z obubožano plesno skupino, kjer sta brata pravzaprav začela plesati. Poročen je z MARI, v katero je bil tudi STEVE nekoč zaljubljen. Zaradi pomanjkanja subvencij GYULA ne more postaviti nove predstave. Stara zgodba "Deviški ples smrti" postane ozadje in alegorija za vsakodnevne kompromise in opravičila, ki se jih zavedamo. "Neizogibno zlo" , "ples s hudičem na robu britvice" pa postane "Ples smrti", izdajstvo naših principov, nadarjenosti, naših bližnjih in našega bistva. S prikazom bogastva plesa, glasbe in umetnosti je Deviški ples smrti tudi praznovanje novega "plesa" življenja v Vzhodni Evropi.