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13 novembre > SALA 2 ore 19.15

Hungary – 1964 – colore – 94’

Direction: István Szabó

Screenplay: István Szabó

Cinematography: Tamás Vámos

Editing: Sandor Zakonyi 

Set design: Tilda Gáti 

Music: Péter Eötvös

Costumes: Makeup: Lajosné Asztalos

Cast: András Bálint, Ilona Béres, Judit Halász, Kati Sólyom, Cecília Esztergályos, Béla Asztalos, Tamás Er?ss, László Murányi, Miklós Gábor

Produzione Production: Mafilm, Studio 3 

SYNOPSIS

Budapest, mid-1960s. A group of young engineers who have just graduated spend their holidays at Lake Balaton, between the lightness of youth and the anticipation of adult life. One of them, Jancsi, finds a job as a sound engineer. As he strives to develop new technologies, he soon comes up against older colleagues and clerks, who are entrenched in their own habits and mediocrity. His fellow students, with whom he spent so much time, are now far away, and the death of one of them also disrupts their sense of friendship. Someone else, though, has entered Jancsi’s life: Éva, a young lawyer passionate about human rights whom he saw on TV one day.

CRITICAL NOTE

“The Age of Daydreaming is above all valuable as an epitome of an era. Szabó brings to the screen, with his actors and actresses, the lifestyle he and his friends lived. That of a generation ready for new technological challenges, for the liberation of customs, for aspirations that were out of step with their relatively precarious situation. What is amazing about Szabó’s style is a certain breadth, the skilful way he handles group scenes (there are many parties, street processions and sunbathing sessions). The Age of Daydreaming tries to put in everything, concerns, aspirations, contradictions and idiosyncrasies that make up the way of life of a generation.” (Jean-Gavril Sluka, DVDclassik, May 22, 2015)

AWARDS

1965 Locarno FF: Silver Sail (ex-aequo con ex-aequo with I pugni in tasca di by Marco Bellocchio)