Inheritance - A message to my descendants about the nation, the country, shot by Zsolt Balázs Pozsgai, a playwright, theater and film director, screenwriter and worthy artist.
"I read the book by László Nemzetszóros Mészáros, and I told him that it was a text that could be made into a film, one that I had wanted for a long time," said Zsolt Pozsgai in relation to the work, emphasizing that he wanted his film to alternate between genres, poetry , music, contemporary dance, ballet, folk dance and much more.
"In this spirit, I selected poems from Ady to Albert Wass for the author's text. And we managed to show a few beauties that can still be found in the Carpathian Basin. In pictures, in person. And since this is a grandfather's spiritual legacy to his grandchildren, I also left the personal line. This spiritual heritage is Hungarianness, the Hungarian language, the love and primacy of family, faith - all that is worth accepting by the grandchildren and then their children. In addition, it is also a Korlen print, since, unlike a book, it preserves the values visually. Before they disappear or transform," he added.
A perfect example of this is that when the plan for the film was created, the church tower was still standing out of the flooded Hungarian village in Transylvania. By the time they got there to shoot it, it fell over. This can be a warning example that values must be documented, because we don't know what kind of world is coming, Pozsgai said.
Both the cinematographer, Ákos Kuri, and the duo of composers: Dávid Király and Miklós Suhaj are already members of one of the next generations, so the question is legitimate: what follows from the fact that they, the actors, the dancers were on the same page with the writer and the film director ?
"Ákos Kuri is a cinematographer who graduated from Cluj, we work together at the Pápai Film Festival every year, and now it was clear that I would ask him. He is young, understands new techniques, and knows one of the film's main locations, Transylvania, well. He is the kind of collaborator of the director who continues to think about what the director wants. He doesn't invent anything else, he thinks along with me. The composers are also papal, they also already know how to compose music for a film, what is the way to do it. And precious and beautiful music was born in his mood and way of thinking. And the actors are my old friends, Ádám Lux, Dóra Kakasy, Armand Kautzky, we all went towards our dreams together for decades. I know them, they know me, so everything can fall into place," Pozsgai listed the staff and its strengths.
Bringing this subject to film in the early 1990s would have been existential suicide. When asked how much courage it took, the director replied that the need was natural, it did not require courage.
"Even at the presentation, it seemed that the viewers were happy to take it, because it was completely different from the usual image films. In addition to the beautiful landscapes, for example, the horrors of the German resettlement were danced by contemporary dancers in the German landscape house in Nagymaros. There was no one to talk into the film, so it is good and worthwhile to create," said Zsolt Pozsgai.
Cover photo: Zsolt Pozsgai and László Mészáros at the film premiere
Source: Facebook/Zsolt Pozsgai
