"Cinematic Legacy of Eastern Europe" to showcase variety and development of regional cinema

The remarkable films to be shown include Czech director Jan Nemec's "The Party and the Guests" (1966), which was voted by the New York Times as one of the best films of the 1960s; Milos Forman's "The Firemen's Ball" (1967); major Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Zanussi&...

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Published inHong Kong Government News
Format Newsletter
LanguageEnglish
Published New Delhi Athena Information Solutions Pvt. Ltd 06.09.2013
Subjects
Awards & honors
Forman, Milos
Jancso, Miklos
Kusturica, Emir
Makk, Karoly
Motion picture directors & producers
Motion picture festivals
Mungiu, Cristian (1968- )
Social criticism & satire
Wajda, Andrzej
Hong Kong
Eastern Europe
Poland
Czechoslovakia
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Summary:The remarkable films to be shown include Czech director Jan Nemec's "The Party and the Guests" (1966), which was voted by the New York Times as one of the best films of the 1960s; Milos Forman's "The Firemen's Ball" (1967); major Polish filmmaker Krzysztof Zanussi's "Illumination" (1973); Andrzej Wajda's "Man of Iron" (1981), which was awarded the Palme d'Or and Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the Cannes Film Festival 1981; Hungarian director Miklos Jancso's "Red Psalm" (1972), which won Best Director at the Cannes Film Festival 1972; Karoly Makk's "Another Way" (1982), which took the Best Actress award at the Cannes Film Festival 1982; Yugoslavian director Dusan Makavejev's taboo fantasy work, "Love Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator" (1967); Emir Kusturica's "Underground" (1995), which was awarded the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival 1995; and Romanian director Corneliu Porumboiu's "12:08 East of Bucharest" (2006), which won the Camera d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival 2006; and Cristian Mungiu's "4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days" (2007), which won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival 2007.