Hungarian New Wave Shows in Wroclaw

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The films on the programme, entitled Hungarian New Wave - Melancholy and Silence, include Current (1963), Twenty Hours (1965), Ten Thousand Suns (1965), Father (1966), Cold Days (1966), The Thrown Up Stone (1968), The Witness (1969), Do you Know Sunday-Monday? (1969), Love (1970), Sindbad (1971), The Whistling Cobble Stone (1971), Photography (1972), Football of the Good Old Days (1973), Holiday in Britain (1974) and Adoption (1975).

 
Also on the programme will be a mini-retrospective of the films of Miklós Jancsó and a collection of shorts from the Balázs Béla Studio.
 
The selection of films was put together by the film critics György Báron, Klára Muhi and Lóránt Stőhr.
 
The Hungarian directors Gyula Gazdag, Lívia Gyarmathy, András Kovács, Pál Sándor and Sándor Sára will be in Wroclaw to present their films to audiences.
 
A book about Hungarian cinema in the 1960s and 70s, including essays by Polish, Czech and Hungarian critics, will be published to coincide with the festival.
 
The Panorama programme of the 11-day festival also includes new Hungarian films, such as director György Pálfi's I Am Not your Friend and his Europa award-winning film Hukkle, as well as Kornél Mundruczó's latest film Delta.