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The Danube Exodus

The Hungarian filmmaker Péter Forgács is one of the most prominent so-called found footage filmmakers.rolex replika In particular home movies and amateur films serve as the basis of stories he reveals and compose by using recovered personal and historical events.

He is primarily interested in the way in which these films seem to depict only happy moments, but on closer consideration they also appear to tell a hidden history, which can be brought back to the surface by the recycling filmmaker.

In the travelogue The Danube Exodus, he documents the Jewish exodus from Slovakia just before the beginning of World War II. In two boats, a group of nine hundred Slovak, Austrian Jews tried to reach the Black Sea via the river Danube, in order to get to Palestine from there. Forgács based his film on the amateur films of Captain Nándor Andrásovits, the captain of one of the boats.

He filmed his passengers while they prayed, slept and even got married. At the end of this journey, it is clear that the boat will not return empty: a reverse exodus takes place, this time of repatriating Bessarabian Germans, fleeing to the Third Reich because of the Soviet invasion of Bessarabia.


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 Credits  Awards  Festivals  Bibliography

Credits


1998 - 60 minutes - Video

Director Péter Forgács
Music Tibor Szemző
Editor Kati Juhász
Sound Zsolt Hubay
Music performed by the Gordian Knot Company
Music recording István Horváth
Video graphics Zoltán Vida
Film restoration Márton Kurutz

Special thanks to
Miri Tikotsky, Jehuda Tamir, Nahum Katzberg, Jesohua Helevi, Lola Gubi, Edit Horavsky, Mordechay Adler, Ella Fano, Guido Fano, Helmuth Fink, Nomi Ben-Nathan Schory, Salo Deutch, Gabriel Bar Shaked, Perec Révész, Hansi Brand, Josef Goral, Dalia Ofer, Ingo Rüdiger Isert, Martin Smok, János Varga, dr. Erzsébet Molnár, István Rónai, András Forgách and Judit Scherter

Producer and distributor
Cesar Messemaker © Lumen Film 2005
cesarmessemaker@demon.lumenfilm.nl

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FOR-CREATION Bt. with the support of MTFA, MMKA, The Soros Foundation, Private Photo and Film Archive Budapest, MTV Rt. and BBS

Broadcast
VPRO Televisie, ZDF ARTE, MTV Rt. and DUNA TV

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Awards


1999 • Documentary Grand Prize • Hungarian Film Week • Budapest
1999 • The Silver Dragon Prize • Krakow International Documentary Film Festival
1999 • Fipresci Prize • Krakow International Documentary Film Festival
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Festivals


2000 One World International Film Festival Prague, Czech Republic
2000 Thessaloniki Documentary Festival Thessaloniki, Greece
2000 New York Jewish Film Festival New York, USA
1999 Prix Europa Berlin, Germany
1999 Viennale 99 Vienna, Austria
1999 Dokument Art Neubrandenburg, Germany
1999 Eureka Screenings Athens, Greece
1999 San Francisco Jewish Film Festival San Francisco, USA
1999 International Documentary and Short Film Festival Krakow, Poland
1999 Hungarian Film Festival Budapest, Hungary
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Bibliography


 LEAH OLLMAN: "As History and Memory Ebb and Flow"
 Scott MacDonald,Bill Nichols,Ernst van Alphen,Michael S. Roth,Michael Renov,Kaja Silverman,Malin Wah: Film alkimista - Cinema's Alchemist
 Zsofi Ban: Forgács's Film and Installation Dunai exodus (Danube Exodus)
 Kristian Feigelson: The Labyrinth: A Strategy of Sensitive Experimentation, A Filmmaker of the Anonymous
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