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Zoltán Bartos was a fierce amateur film maker as well as a composer of popular dance music in Hungary. All takes are in some way involved with Bartos' family life. The period covered by these films runs from the end of the twenties to the middle of the fifties. Uninhibited performances take place in front of the camera whereby people perform their 'petite histoire' knowing that they will be their own future audience. Countless genre pieces like ‘The seduction of a woman’ and as variations on this ‘The seduction of a woman and making the subsequent painful acquaintance of her husband’, ‘The observant mothers-in-law’ and so on. But there is a magician too who makes things appear out of thin air and thereby inadvertently calls to mind the great French film pioneer George Méliès. In between there are glimpses of the social life in Hungary as it was then. Precisely because there is no attempt here to achieve a 'style', only to record every day life, this 'document humain' has a special appeal to the imagination.
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Henny Kamphuizen
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Camera: Zoltán Bartos, Editing: Márta Révész, Music: Tibor Szemzö, Musicians: Takazmány Bázis Redaktion, Advice: Gábor Ferenczi, János Tóth, Production: Mafilm, BBS-MTV, FMS Studio Budapest
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