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Size: A0 2 Sheet (cca. 84 x 119 cm). Poster for the film of one of the most acclaimed Hungarian directors Zolt n F bri The film starred Antal P ger a legendary actor The film was made in the golden age of Hungarian cinema and the reception was very diverse not in terms of art but in terms of politics The film is set in 1961 a year after Adolf Eichman the nazi war criminal was captured in Buenos Aires This news received huge international attention everyone was talking about it A small group of friends decided to play a trick on their friend K lm n Kerekes so they call him on the phone disguise the phonecall an official summon by the Police The seemingly innocent joke turns out to be serious as Kerekes has a guilty conscience In 1944 a nazi officer asked him if there were any Jews left in the town and he replied Well unless the Szil gyi family The next day the Szil gyi family was taken to the ghetto and then to concentration camp After the phone call Kerekes goes to the town where he committed his crime In the meantime his friends are looking for him spreading photos of him asking around if anyone met him When Kerekes sees these pictures of himself he starts getting paranoid At the end of the day his friends find him Kerekes figures out that they were just teasing him however in order to ease his guilt he confesses to his friend As a result they instantly transform into a jury to decide wether he is guilty or not His friends cannot decide so the next day he goes to the police and pleads guilty but no one cares Then he decides to commit suicide He lies down on the railway but the train manages to pass by without hurting him At the end he stays alone with his guilt that he cannot get rid of The film was nominated on the Venice film festival to the Golden Lion prize and won the San Giorgio Prize The film is a very important piece especially in the poitical context it was made in In Hungary during socialism it wasn t approved to talk about the Holocaust especially as the collective sinful past of the nation Also the cultural politics wasn t fond of the fact that there was no real communist character in the movie a heroic simple worker On the contrary F bri portrayed the drama of a single fallible man who decided to undertake the kept back guilt of a whole nation Another interesting choice of the director was that Antal P ger who played the main role was considered by many a war criminal as he was associated with extreme rightist propaganda prior to World War II He emigrated to Buenos Aires to avoid getting improsoned but then he agreed with the Hungarian government and returned to Hungary However in the eyes of many he remained guilty The poster was designed by Andr s M t who often did composition built up of stripes On this black and white poster of his he arranged the stripes diagonally The rhythm of the design is achieved by the densely placed burnt photographs mostly close ups of faces This gives a darker atmosphere that refers to the restless unburied past The title on the top is written in red what makes the piece even more serious Fine, fold marks, light creasing, small tears. N° de ref. del artículo 2956

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