An Imperial Message 1975

An Imperial Message is a 1975 Hungarian experimental film directed by László Najmányi. The 'story' was based on Franz Kafka's short story Eine kaiserliche Botschaft.

Vilém Flusser: We Shall Survive in the Memory of Others 2010

Flusser presents here theories that focus on the believability of the electronic image, the role of religion and memory, as well as the new language systems and apparatus of the digital avant-garde era. — Television Image and Political Space in the Light of the Romanian Revolution (Lecture, Budapest, the 7th of April, 1990) — On technical images, chance, consciousness and the individual (Interview by Miklós Peternák in München, the 17th of October 1991) — On religion, memory and synthetic image (Interview by László Beke and Miklós Peternák in Budapest, the 7th of April 1990) — On writing, complexity and the technical revolutions (Interview by Miklós Peternák in Osnabrück, European Media Art Festival, September 1988)

3:1 For Love 1939

Ghost Train 1933 ( 5)

This earliest surviving Romanian horror-thriller is distinctly un-Romanian in several ways: an adaptation of Arnold Ridley’s play of the same name (best known through its 1941 film version starring Arthur Askey), TRENUL FANTOMĂ was shot in Hungary as an alternate-language version of KÍSÉRTETEK VONATA (1933), with both films using footage taken from the 1931 British movie adaptation.

A Train of Ghosts 1933 ( 6)

Remake of the English movie Ghost Train (1931, Walter Forde). Seven people are stranded for a stormy night at a remote, unmanned railroad station past which, every midnight, steams the "ghost" of a train which wrecked there 20 years ago.

Prisoners of Land 1917

The daughter of the farmer András Balogh, Juli, is confused by the sight of a circus, she leaves her native village secretly and enters into an engagement with the dance master at a night club in the capital. Her seducer tortures her with dancing drills even during the night, what is more, he beats her. She escapes from her tormentor one night and enters into engagement in Russia. Juli becomes Juliette, and soon we can see her again on the Tashkent property of a prince, where she lives in luxury. In the meantime, war breaks out. Prisoners are brought into the castle. Juli discovers her own father among them, but he does not forgive her for bringing shame on him. One day, as the exchanged prisoners set off for their homeland in the morning fog, Juliette dresses up in the old clothes of Juli, braids her hair and leaves everything, riches and love behind, to return to the land, which her soul became a prisoner of in the very moment she was born .