"Hungarian Cinema and the Fall of Communism" Film Series

Friday, December 4, 2009
7:30 pm - 9:30 pm, UCLA Hammer Museum - Billy Wilder Theater

"After All"

See below for additional information.

Admission

Tickets: $10 in advance online. $9 general; $8 Cineclub members, students, seniors and UCLA Alumni Association members with ID.

Contact

UCLA Film & Television Archive
(310) 206-8013

Website

http://www.cinema.ucla.edu/calendar/calendardetails.asp...

Additional Information

After All will screen as part of the UCLA Film and Television Archive film series Beyond the Iron Curtain: Hungarian Cinema Observes the Fall of Communism.

After All
(1990) Directed by Zsolt Kézdi-Kovács

This emotional drama of personal and public morality concerns Kristóf Zeyk, a 50-year-old journalist whose life undergoes enormous changes after the fall of Hungary’s communist government. Personally opposed to the old regime but never to the point of endangering his career, he is now termed a “Stalinist,” which troubles him deeply. Turning inward, and seeking the support of his young daughter, he reassesses his convictions and seeks a way forward in this new world.

About the Series:

At mid-century, Hungary found itself politically and economically isolated, especially after the Communist government’s complicity with the brutal Soviet crackdown on the citizens’ uprising of 1956. This eye-opening event initiated a 30-year period of growing disenchantment with Soviet influence, marked by increased Hungarian engagement with Western nations and a greater liberalization of Hungarian domestic institutions—including the government-controlled film industry, which was gradually decentralized. Hungarian filmmakers dramatized, with immediacy and passion, the thrill and complexities of this unique moment in history. In the years following 1989, they produced a wealth of moving social documents as new and established filmmakers set about reconsidering the Communist past. All films in Hungarian with English subtitles.
  • November 20: Sweet Emma, Dear Böbe
  • November 21: Laszlo and Vilmos
  • November 23: Bolshe Vita
  • December 4: After All
  • December 5: Voila la Liberté
  • December 13: Borderline Case and The Life of an Agent: Secret Police Training Films from the Communist Era

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