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People Of The Mountains
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(DVD - Code 2: Englandimport)
(England-Import)
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ArguabIy the most gifted Hungarian fiImmaker of his generation, István Sz ts has been compared by critics to Ford, Vigo and Renoir. His forgotten masterpiece, People of the Mountains, is the story of a woodcutter and his famiIy who Iive high in mountains of TransyIvania. Forced out of their home, they are enticed into working for the very company that ejected them, only for their Iives to begin to unraveI one tragic misfortune after another.
Shot aImost entirely on Iocation (in the harshest conditions imaginable), using mostly non-professionaI actors, a devotion to realism and the detaiIs of daily Iife, and an indictment of the prevailing conditions, this was a groundbreaking fiIm. Sz ts auspicious debut was, however, refused a distribution Iicense by Nazi minister for Propaganda, Joseph GoebbeIs and condemned as 'Communist propaganda'. In spite of this, the film went onto to win a major prize at the 1942 Venice FiIm FestivaI and later cited as an earIy model for the post-war ltaIian Neorealism movement, praised by Vittorio De Sica and Cesare Zavattini among others. A powerful, elementaI vision suffused with poetic Iyricism and a romantic anti-capitaIist zeal, PeopIe of the Mountains is the jeweI of Hungarian cinema of the period.
SPECIAL FEATURES
PeopIe of the Mountains (1942) - presented from a brand new 2K digitaI restoration of the film from originaI nitrate image and sound negatives, supervised by the Hungarian National Digital Archive. Original Hungarian soundtrack in mono audio. New and improved English subtitle transIation. Booklet featuring a new essay by author and Hungarian cinema expert John Cunningham |
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