Movies: Miklós Erdély

Narcisus and Psyche is based on a novel by Sandor Weores which was adapted by Vilmos Csaplar and director Gabor Body for a feature-length film. Borrowing the character of Psyche from mythology and placing her in Europe in the 19th century, the author...

According to Peter Brook, all that is needed for an act of theatre to be engaged is for a man to walk across an empty space whilst someone else is watching him. Thus, an empty space becomes a bare stage. However, this raises countless questions about...

A Hungarian Jew is forced to give a false testimony on his relatives in WW2 Hungary....

He starts going, carrying a dinner-can. His eyes are suddenly arrested by the breasts of the girl on the bicycle, riding towards him. Prompted by the strange movements of the girl as well as by seeing another girl in a wheel-chair, his imagination st...

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A young man receives a telegram to attend his own execution at dawn. There may have been a mistake, but the office is closed and the truth cannot be found out. The mistake is masterfully mysterious and the sense of civic duty is so high that the cand...