In May, the audience can already see the musical film Béla Radics – The Cursed Guitarist at a week-long rock film festival called Magyarock Filmen, which will be held between April 27 and May 3 in cinemas in seven cities across the country. Gábor Klacsán, the director of the film Radics, promised that they would take Béla Radics' guitar to the screenings wherever they were invited.
In the week-long rock cinema program, cult films such as Márta Mészáros, Beautiful girls, don't cry! made in 1970, with which he not only commemorates the Hungarian beat era, but also expresses his deep love for the era and its significant figures. We can also see the recently deceased György Szomjas' film Bald Dog (1981) with Hobo, Gyula Bill Deák, and Lóránt Schuster.
The Illés ensemble, the Fonograph ensemble and Zsuzsa Koncz are the main characters in Gábor Koltay's film The Concert (1981).
In Gábor Bódy's work entitled Dog's Night Song (1983), the new rebel generation, the underground, already appears, with such famous artists and performers as Attila Grandpierre, the Bítsógás ensemble, Marietta Méhes. Miklós Jancsó's film Omega, Omega, Omega was made in 1984.
Heavy Medal (1983) is Gábor Koltay's banned film about rock music, young people who can't find their place, and Hungary, which is invisible to many.
Tamás Almási's documentary I Was a Kid (1985), which was shown by MTV at the time but was never distributed, is also included in the program of the one-week festival. In Péter Timár's 1987 Moziklip, in addition to nationally known performers such as Ferenc Demjén, the V'Moto-Rock band, Sándor Révész or Klári Katona, there are also underground performers who were fans of their own scene but tolerated by the cultural policy of the time. they could stand in front of a recording machine, such as the band Siámi, Péter Kőnigh or Kentaur.
The full article of Magyar Hírlap can be read here.
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