The film "Continue Tomorrow" based on the story of the band Kormorán can be seen for the first time by Duna viewers on December 30. With reports, details of concerts and theater performances, as well as exclusive recordings, the two-hour compilation recalls the five decades of existence of the Danube Prize-winning orchestra, as well as the 70 years of composer and lyricist Gergely Koltay, winner of the Kossuth Prize and awarded the Knight's Cross of the Hungarian Order of Merit.
The founder of Kormorán, Gergely Koltay, saw his latest direction a year and a half ago, a documentary covering the 47-year history of the genre-creating band from the beginning to the present day. Continue Tomorrow not only selects the band's most memorable moments, viewers can also glimpse into the childhood, family memories and experiences of Gergely Koltay, winner of the Kossuth Prize. Among the others, you can see the parachute jump he received for his 70th birthday - the director shared in the M5 Libretto program. Renowned artists - Papadimitriu Athina, Károly Horváth Charlie, Miklós Varga and Péter Benkő - tell in short reports what the flagship of the folk-rock, ethno-rock and national rock genres gave them. Concert and studio recordings, song excerpts, the biggest hits, and theater scenes complete the biopic.
Gergely Koltay has more than a hundred albums, more than eight hundred songs and about a thousand lyrics to his name, and his repertoire includes rock operas, oratorios, musical historical plays, and films. In the early 1970s, he played in the Sebő ensemble: on the flute, bagpipes, turkish pipe and various flutes. He was a pioneer of the dance hall, which became a national movement. In 1976, he founded Kormoránt, which combines elements of folk music with stylistic features of rock music, with Papadimitriu Grigoris. Their songs cross borders, connect generations, form a bridge between past and present. The band's diversity and creative power are proven by numerous stage plays, operas and film scores - Conquest, Sacra Corona, Trianon, The Poet Returns, Elektra Forever, Zúgjatok harangok, A Megfeszitté, A Girl Dressed in the Sun.
The film was made with the support of the National Film Institute, co-produced by MTVA and Vox-Trade Zrt. The director and screenwriter is Gergely Koltay. An independent program was made from the omitted scenes, titled Continue Tomorrow - Preface, and will be presented by Duna on December 29.
Continue tomorrow - preface - December 29 at 12:55 on the Danube.
Continue tomorrow - Gergely Koltay's film - December 30 at 1:25 p.m. on the Danube.
Source: hirado.hu
Featured image: The Kormorán folk-rock, ethno-rock, national rock band's concert on M2 Petõfi TV's Akusztik broadcast, on the stage of the A38 concert ship.
In front (bj) Gergely Koltay, a Kossuth-prized musician, composer, lyricist, founding member of the band, as well as singers Imre Vadkerti and Nóra Fehér, in the back saxophonist Sólyom Koltay and bassist Tamás Zsoldos. MTVA Photo: Zsolt Zih
