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A Rózsa énekei DVD 2003 Rose's Songs
Directed by Szilágyi Andor / Grantfilm kiadás
Producer: Nagy Endre
UPC 5999541752156
Starring / Főszereplők: Franco Castellano, Bánsági Ildikó, Maia Morgenstern, Börcsök Enikő, Djoko Rosic, Kállai Ferenc, Mucsi Zoltán
Rendező: Szilágyi Andor
Hangok: magyar 2.0; angol 2.0 / AUDIO Options: English, Hungarian
Feliratok: magyar, angol / Subtitles: English, Hungarian
Playtime / Hossza: 98 perc
A rózsa énekei is a 2003 film about Holocaust victims in Hungary during World War II.
Autumn 1944. Yellow star, ghettos, Arrow Cross terror. The inhabitants of Hungary's capital, Budapest, await the tragic fulfilment of their fate with helpless resignation. However, above one of the city's villas, once a week in the evening the stars of hope sparkle, if only for a few minutes. This short time gives fresh heart to those hiding here and kindles hope in their tortured souls to live for another day. This mysterious power is none other than a beautiful song that can be heard at such times from the villa's tower room. Géza Halász, the villa's always jovial caretaker, believes no Jew has reason to fear while the owner of the voice, Imre Rose, the world-famous opera singer and a Jew himself, remains in Budapest and does not flee from the country in spite of his American, British, Swiss, Swedish and Vatican connections. Halász visits the singer every Friday to dine with him. After a while the marvellous, hope-inspiring concert starts, which is listened to by the hiding inhabitants of the house with enraptured faces through the villa's open dumb waiter. Already in the "palmy years of peacetime" Rose had competed with Csortos, the famous actor, for the title of "Budapest's Greatest Misanthrope". Thus it does not surprise anybody that the eccentric singer never, not even once, tries to make contact with his fellow Jews who took refuge in his house. And when Halász recounts that the singer swore within an hour of the Arrow Cross's seizing power that he would not utter a single word nor cross the threshold of his tower room until "Andrássy Avenue has been purged of this Arrow Cross scum", even the slightest suspicion about Rose's "invisibility" vanishes. Only a fourteen-year-old boy, Tommy, the caretaker's son, listens to the weekly song with curiosity combined with suspicion, and tries to find out about the secret of the tower room. As a result of the adolescent's persistent and undaunted inquiries, the opera singer's mystery is unveiled. Meanwhile, however, almost unnoticed, the events of the calamitous days, filled with excitement and cheerfulness, turn the boy into a truly adult man. The story of THE SONGS OF RÓZSA is based on true events.
| Directed by | Andor Szilágyi |
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| Written by | Andor Szilágyi |
| Starring | Franco Castellano David Zum Ildikó Bánsági Djoko Rosic |
| Distributed by | Grantfilm Ltd. |
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98 minutes |
| Country | Hungary |
| Language | Hungarian |
1944 ősze. Sárgacsillag, gettósítás, nyilasterror.
Budapest utcáin senki sincs biztonságban, a zsidó származásúak örökös félelemben
élnek. A várost elárasztó terror rettenetében mégis van egy hely, ahol a bujkáló
zsidók biztonságra lelnek, és ahol erőt merítenek a szörnyűségekkel szemben
egy napról napra felcsendülő csodálatos énekből.
A zsidó származású, világhírű operaénekes, Rózsa Imre villájában több
zsidó család rejtőzik, köztük Halász Géza a feleségével és három gyermekével.
Halász szerint addig egyetlen zsidónak sincs oka a félelemre, amíg a
villa világhírű tulajdonosa nem hagyja el toronyszobáját.
Egy apa családjáért folytatott heroikus küzdelmén, és egy kisfiú idő előtti
felnőtté válásán keresztül, megrendítő képet kapunk a történelem egyik legtragikusabb
fejezetéről.
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Hossz: 98 perc
Magyar mozibemutató: 2003. március 20.
