Screening Time: 19:00, 18th Feb, 2019
Venue: D-hall of MUST
FREE ENTRANCE!
Name：Aurora Borealis
104 min| Drama |2017|Hungary| Hungarian
Director: Márta Mészáros
Writers: Márta Mészáros, Jancsó Zoltán, Pataki Éva
Editetor: Annamária Szántó
Stars: Mari Törőcsik, Franciska Törőcsik, Ildikó Tóth, József Wunderlich, Eva Prosek, Leslaw Zurek, Jákob Ladányi, Hary Prinz, Ewa Telega, Antonio de la Torre
Storyline
Aurora Borealis is a family story with plentiful of twists taking place on two separate timelines. It analyses the relationship between a mother and a daughter in great depths. Mária (Mari Törőcsik), the elderly mother of Olga (Ildikó Tóth), the successful attorney living in Vienna, unexpectedly falls into a coma. While Mária is hovering between life and death, Olga comes across a deliberately withheld secret. The increasingly passionate investigation takes her back to the war-torn Europe of the 50s; where, at the end of her journey she discovers herself: a woman she never knew before. The film discusses the dramatic situations originating from identity crises with feminine sensitivity in unusual situations, the never-healing wounds caused by the wars of the shattered Europe, passing, and the liberating powers coming from unveiling lies and suppressions.
Information of the film director --MÁRTA MÉSZÁROS
(Born in 1931 in Budapest)
Main festivals & awards
1975 – Adoption – Berlinale Competition – GOLDEN BEAR
1977 – Nine Months - Cannes / Quinzaine des réalisateurs – FIPRESCI PRIZE
1980 – The Heiresses - Cannes Official Selection Competition
1984 – Diary for my Children – Cannes Official Selection Competition – SPECIAL “GRAND PRIX” OF THE JURY
Balázs Béla Award (1977), Merited Artist of Hungary Award (1985), National Trade Union Council's Award (1989, Kossuth Prize (1990), Imre Nagy Memorial Plaque (1995), Order of Merit of the Hungarian Republic: Officer's Cross (1996), Master of the Hungarian Motion Picture (2003)
“Márta Mészáros, who not only made the first Hungarian feature directed by a woman (1968’s The Girl), and continued to defy doubters and a climate of heavy censorship to become a defining voice of her nation’s cinema.”
Awards:
AUDIENCE AWARD for BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM 53rd CHICAGO IFF
Supported by：
Consulate General of Hungary in Hong Kong
