An all-night documentary was made in regards to the Kaláka conference, which was based 55 years in the past this 12 months. The premiere of Kaláka: From the Carpathians to the Caribbean Sea will happen on June 14 on the Hungarian Movement Image Competition in Veszprem.
After the premiere of the movie, directed by Réka Pigniczky, produced by 56films and supported by the Nationwide Movie Workplace, there might be an out of doors live performance in Kaláka on June 14, the organizers advised MTI.
The work is concurrently a music documentary, a highway movie and a photograph movie about former and present members of Kalaka. Along with Gábor Becze, Dániel Gryllus, Vilmos Gryllus and Balázs Radványi, who’ve appeared in the identical line since 1996, Péter Huzella, Gábor Main and István Mikó, who performed an vital position within the historical past of Kaláka, may also communicate. within the movie.
The director-producer was born and raised in the USA as a toddler of ’56 refugees, and first heard Kaláka’s music within the Hungarian neighborhood in California. This offers the movie a novel look: Réka Pigniczky’s work is interwoven with the Hungarian theme as a complete.
The band members go on a visit to a metropolis they have been singing about for many years, however they’ve by no means been there earlier than. In Cartagena, Colombia, Sándor Kányádi’s romantic poem written for town and set to music might be carried out for the primary time.
The movie reveals that Kaláka means the identical factor to Hungarians all over the place, wherever they stay on this planet: a linguistic and cultural neighborhood, collectively via poems and songs. The movie is an emotional, uplifting musical expertise.
“It was not our concept that Réka would make a movie about us, and we didn’t need to affect him. After 4 years of labor, he sat us down in entrance of the film display screen and stunned us, laughing, touching, and completely satisfied.
As he defined, it was an enormous problem to indicate one thing that they may not even learn about themselves. Screenwriter and dramatist Zsuzsanna Gellér-Varga, editor László Hargittai, and co-producer Barnabás Gerő performed an vital position within the manufacturing of the movie.
The film about Kalaka was made in actual Kalaka
– stated Réka Pigniczky.
