The twelve movies were selected from the period of 1948-1966 in a secret ballot by leading Hungarian film experts in 1968.
The oldest film on the programme is director Frigyes Ban's "The Soil Under Your Feet" from 1948 about the hardships of rural life in interwar Hungary.
The other films to be shown from the 1950s include Zoltan Fabry's two films "Merry-Go-Round" about a tragic love and "Professor Hannibal" about a school teacher, as well as Imre Feher's "A Sunday Romance", Karoly Makk's "The House Under the Rock" and Felix Mariassy's "Spring in Budapest".
From the 1960s period films to be shown include among others Oscar-winning director Istvan Szabo's family drama "The Father", Miklos Jancso's "The Round-Up" and Marton Keleti's war-time comedy "The Corporal and the Others".
Source: Hungarian News Agency (MTI)
