WED JUNE 24 at 5:30pm, FREE
László Jakab Orsós, Director of the Hungarian Cultural Center
DURATION 1 hour 45 minutes
LOCATION Yale Center for British Art, 1080 Chapel Street
The most recent documentary by acclaimed Budapest-based director Péter Forgács will be shown on the opening night of the Katona József Theatre Company’s Hungarian version of
Ivanov. The movie explores the fate of hundreds of thousands of Hungarian men and women who arrived in the United States between 1890 and 1921. To tell their sagas, Forgács weaved this grand epic from the early American cinema, found footage, photographs and interviews. The film reveals the difficult moments of arrival, integration and assimilation, which eventually fed the happiness of the later generations and their fulfillment of the American dream.
Hunky Blues was created specially for
Extremely Hungary, a yearlong festival showcasing contemporary Hungarian visual, performing, and literary arts in New York and Washington, DC, throughout 2009.
László Jakab Orsós, Director of the Hungarian Cultural Center, will be introducing the film.
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