Bolshe vita
Ibolya Fekete
During the troubled summer of 1989, the border between Austria and Hungary was opened causing refugees to flock to Western Europe. All of them passed through Hungary: adventurers, traffickers, mafiosi and a few young people in search of a better life. The heroes of our story are two musician dreamers and a mechanic from Russia and two women, one English and one American, who came to Budapest because as they put it: "this is where the excitment is". They meet in a bar called Bolshe Vita. Lbolya Fekete wanted to give an account of the euphoric summer of 1989 and of the disenchantment that occurred immediately after. With this aim in mind, she used for inspiration the work she had done for her documentary film Children of the Apocalypse, and inserted in this feature film a series of video shots she had made then.
With : Youri Fomichev, Igor Chernievich, Alexei Serebriakov, Agnès Mahr, Helen Baxendale, Caroline Loncq
Screenplay : Ibolya Fekete
Image : Andras Szalai
Sound : István Sipos
Music : Youri Fomichev, Ferenc Muk
Screenplay : Ibolya Fekete
Image : Andras Szalai
Sound : István Sipos
Music : Youri Fomichev, Ferenc Muk
Production : Hungarofilm
Bathoryu 10, 1054 Budapest, Hongrie
Tél : 36 ' 111 4614, Fax : 36 ' 153 1850
Bathoryu 10, 1054 Budapest, Hongrie
Tél : 36 ' 111 4614, Fax : 36 ' 153 1850
After studying Hungarian and Russian, Lbolya Fekete worked as a free-lance editor and as a co-scriptwriter on György Szomjas' films: "Wall-Driller" 1985, "Mr. Universe" 1986 and "Fast and Loose" 1992. She has directed several documentaries since 1989: "Berlin and back" 1989 and "Children of the Apocalypse" 1991. Her first feature film, "Bolshe vita", has already won the Gene Moscowitx Award and the prize for Best Feature-length Film at Budapest's Week of Hungarian Film.