Current

Sodrásban

Hungary

1963

81 Min

Black and White

1.37:1

Hungarian

Currently 3.0/5 Stars.
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CAST Andrea Drahota, Marianna Moór, Istvánné Zsipi, Sándor Csikós, János Harkányi

MUSIC Girolamo Frescobaldi, András Szöllösy

Synopsis

Director Istvan Gaal’s feature film debut was well received in the international community as well as his native country, Hungary. Sodrasban/Current is about a group of young people who have vacation around a small town. They spend their time playing around, taking life lightly. One day while they are diving at a nearby swimming area, they discover that one of their friends is missing. After an extensive search for the boy, his drowned body is eventually found and identified. This tragic incident changes the children’s perspectives of their lives as they now consider their own mortality, marking the end of their youthful innocence. —allmovie

Director

István Gaál

István Gaál (born in 1933) was one of the founders of the legendary Studio Béla Balázs. He made Current / Sodrásban, his first full length feature film in 1963. It became one of the symbols of the “Hungarian nouvelle vague” and won the main prize at the Karlovy Vary IFF in 1964. He directed a great number of feature, documentary, short and television films.

His documentary Chronicle / Krónika won the Jury’s Special Prize in Venice in 1968. Two years later his feature film The Falcons / Magasiskola was awarded the Jury’s Prize in Cannes, then it received the Silver Hugo at the Chicago film festival. His most well known feature films are Green Years / Zöldár, Baptism / Keresztelő, Dead Landscape / Holt vidék and Legato.

He made his last feature film Orpheus and Eurydice / Orpheusz és Eurydiké in 1985 based on Gluck’s opera. His attachment to classical music was well known. Roots / Gyökerek , his three part portrait of Béla Bartók commemorated the world famous Hungarian composer… read more