From November 4, Hungarian cinemas will screen the film Magyar Passion, distributed by Film-Art Stúdió and directed by Károly Eperjes. The work, whose media sponsor is the Magyar Kurír, recalls the dissolution of Hungarian monastic orders by the communist authorities.
More than seventy years ago, from June 8 to 9, 1950, in a single night, many thousands of people were forcibly taken from monasteries and convents. There were those who were taken to prison, others to internment places, to the construction sites in Stalin City. Not long after, with a single stroke of a pen - except for four - all Hungarian monastic orders were banned, liquidated and stripped of all their value.
In the film based on real events, set in 1950, Father Leopold fights with his fellow monks in order to revive the Franciscan order in a country reviving after the war. In the beginning, the communist power does not hinder them in their activities. The peaceful state does not last long. Father Leopold is arrested on trumped-up charges and brutally tortured to break him. His former student, First Lieutenant Keller, a young officer who has turned his back on religion and believes in the socialist system, is entrusted with extracting a confession. Father Leopold withstands adversity with the strength of a rock until the end...
The story is about consistent standing, faith and comparison.
"We wanted to make a film that would appeal to a wide audience, based on which today's people can get an authentic picture of what happened in Hungary to the monastic orders, the defenders of the faith, in the 1950s. (…) The fates and events flashed in Magyar Passion are all based on reality, and several of them are connected to my own relatives, who were dragged, imprisoned, and beaten during those times. However, no matter how brutal the era the film evokes, together with my co-creators, we strove to show what the power of love was capable of against a communist system based on fear and hatred," emphasized Károly Eperjes, who plays one of the main roles in the film, and whose Hungarian Passion is also his first feature film. arrangement as well.
The screenplay was written by András Petrik, Áron Horváth and Károly Eperjes, based on the writing of titular provost Péter Várnai. It was directed by Károly Eperjes, and Róbert Pájer performed the technical director duties. The cinematographer Sándor Csukás, who won the Made In Hungária and Béla Balázs award, was responsible for the film's unique visual world. The visual designer is Mónika Fekete, and the musical world of the film was created by Magor Bucz, awarded the Neszlényi Prize of the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music.
Magyar Passion is produced by Jenő Hábermann, winner of the Béla Balázs Award, who also scored the films A Hídember, Mansfeld, The Door and Old Fashioned Story.
Our readers can now see an exclusive excerpt from the film; the beautiful detail when the monks gather to celebrate Christmas together, with prayer and peace.
The film will be shown in domestic cinemas from November 4, distributed by Film-Art Stúdió.
The preview of Hungarian Passion HERE .
You can read the previous interview of the Magyar Kurír with the main character and director of the film, Károly Eperjes, HERE
Source, photo and video: Magyar Kurír / Film-Art Studio
