Significant number of the generation born in the 50s and 60s left the country illegaly in the 70s and 80s escaping from the soldiery and/or occlusion or simply they were curious and longed for a better life. They were the dissidents as they called them at that time. The film shows three dissident lives in different phases. István Szíman is a new dissident living under strong control in a lager in Munchen. The other is getting to assimilate into the German society and Kálmán Knausz visits them as an Australian dissident and talking with them about their lives, troubles, the problems of adaptation, their disappointments and their feelings of being outcasted.
This film was made by copying experts from one VHS tape to the other. This was a temporary period for the amateur artists who had become independent film makers in the meantime. The Super 8 mm film technique was difficult to be provided by raw material and the popular video technique was a temptation because it was cheap and easy to process. However only the very simple VHS technique was available for the independent film makers. That is why the films did not have such good technical quality and could not be edited properly. New and seductive possibility with serious technical deficiencies. That was the time when the Super 8 film technique started to deteriorate.
organizer, independent movie maker
(Born in: Győr, 13/03/1956)
He is concerned with shooting films since the end of the 1970’s
/detailed professional resume available here /
Since 1986 member of the Amateur Film Studio Győr
Since 1989 founder of the Visual Cenrte Győr
Since 1991 director of the MEDIAWAVE festival
Since 1999 head of art in Rómer Ház
Initative, researcher, editor and communicater of the Film Archives of Győr
Category: Who made it? / Hungarian / About which minority? / ethnic minority / minority abroad / Hungarians in the world / Hungarian (in Germany) / Point of view / social / construction of production / film with copyright
Genre: Documentary
Nationalities: Hungary
Year: 1989
Age group: Grand Competition
Director: HARTYÁNDI Jenő
35 min. 1989 VHS, Colour, szöveges, Hungarian
Operatőr: HARTYÁNDI Jenő
Vágó: HARTYÁNDI Jenő