More than seventy Hungarian cinemas will screen the all-night Toldi from October 20
On the eve of Jankovics Marcell's birthday, on October 20, Toldi, the last work of the master of Hungarian animation, will be released in cinemas. A hundred creators of Kecskemétfilm Kft. worked on the film adaptation of János Arany's narrative poem for more than three years. The M5 cultural channel produced a feature film about the extraordinary creative process, which will also be shown by Duna TV on October 21.
Last fall, the public media presented the Toldi animation series related to the Golden Memorial Year with great success. From October 20 this year, the full-length film version of Toldi
In connection with the cinema premiere, on October 21st from 10:10 p.m., Duna will broadcast the M5 cultural channel's feature film The Heavy Stone is Flying - this is how the Toldi animation series was made
Marcell Jankovics
Photo: MH/Róbert Hegedűs
The film diary gives an insight into how Marcell Jankovics translated his knowledge of cultural history into the language of animation, and into the process of reinterpreting the formal language of the original work, so that the Toldi story is presented in an understandable and experiential way even for the youngest generation.
Source: magyarhirlap.hu
In our opening image, you can see a frame from the film in which the director and his co-creators lent the faces of the knights who escort Miklós Toldi to the king
Photo: Kecskemétfilm
