LE DORMEUR (CH, 2003)
Dir/sc/ed: Richard Szotyori; prod: Robert Ralston; prod. co-ord: Imre Légman; ph: Tamàs Keményffy; mus: Enrico Camponovo (Improvisations on a Theme by Chopin); 1st asst. dir: Gàbor Forgàcs; 2nd asst. dir: Matthias Urban; des: Istvàn Balogh, Zoltàn Szabò; asst. ph: Jòzsef Takàcs; 2nd asst. ph: Bàlint Seres, Tamàs Bakos; make-up: Flora Sipos; wardrobe: Dora Hidasi; cast: Richard Szotyori, Camille Bouzaglo, Làszlò Jàszai, Jr., Lajos Mezei; 35 mm, 580 m, 18’ (25 fps), colore / color, widescreen (aspect ratio: 1:1.85), sonoro / sound (Dolby A), Cinémathèque Suisse. Finanziamenti di / Funded by The Fonds Regio, in coprod. con / in co-production with SFDRS /TSR Swiss TV. Realizzato con il sostegno di / Made with the support of The Federal Office of Culture (Berne, Switzerland), Fondation Vaudoise pour le Cinéma, The Culture Percent Migros.
No intertitles.
In the presence of Richard Szotyori.
Cinema Ruffo, Sacile, Le Giornate del Cinema Muto (GCM): Muti del XXI Secolo, 11 Oct 2004
Richard Szotyori (GCM): "Anna and Paul lead a very unremarkable life, composed by mechanical habits. One day Anna decides to leave, just putting a note on the table. When Paul comes home and finds her farewell note on the table, his narrow universe suddenly collapses. Next day, the agent of a washing powder company rings at his door, announcing that Paul is the winner of their quiz. His prize, a fantastic red Lamborghini, is waiting for him down in the courtyard. Paul’s nightmare has begun ....."
"Although exclusively financed by Swiss funds, for aesthetic reasons the film was entirely shot in Budapest. The city offers a distinctive kind of outdated feeling that can scarcely be found elsewhere. The whole architecture of the town carries the marks of a monumental and yet abandoned past, which, remaining functional, creates a very strange state of timelessness. This feeling of having been dropped out of time, the central theme of the film, was also intended to be expressed by the very nature of the film – silent, yet shot in color and widescreen." – Richard Szotyori (GCM)
Richard Szotyori was born on 1 January 1972 in Berne, of Hungarian parents. After studies in Switzerland, he enrolled at the Hungarian National Film School in Budapest, where he studied direction, editing, and acting. While working at the Cinémathèque Suisse in Lausanne he has been directing short films, and is now preparing his first full-length feature. He was an original collegian of the Collegium Sacilense of Le Giornate del Cinema Muto, and his passion for silent cinema was largely aroused “by the extraordinary films I had the chance to discover at this festival”.
Dir/sc/ed: Richard Szotyori; prod: Robert Ralston; prod. co-ord: Imre Légman; ph: Tamàs Keményffy; mus: Enrico Camponovo (Improvisations on a Theme by Chopin); 1st asst. dir: Gàbor Forgàcs; 2nd asst. dir: Matthias Urban; des: Istvàn Balogh, Zoltàn Szabò; asst. ph: Jòzsef Takàcs; 2nd asst. ph: Bàlint Seres, Tamàs Bakos; make-up: Flora Sipos; wardrobe: Dora Hidasi; cast: Richard Szotyori, Camille Bouzaglo, Làszlò Jàszai, Jr., Lajos Mezei; 35 mm, 580 m, 18’ (25 fps), colore / color, widescreen (aspect ratio: 1:1.85), sonoro / sound (Dolby A), Cinémathèque Suisse. Finanziamenti di / Funded by The Fonds Regio, in coprod. con / in co-production with SFDRS /TSR Swiss TV. Realizzato con il sostegno di / Made with the support of The Federal Office of Culture (Berne, Switzerland), Fondation Vaudoise pour le Cinéma, The Culture Percent Migros.
No intertitles.
In the presence of Richard Szotyori.
Cinema Ruffo, Sacile, Le Giornate del Cinema Muto (GCM): Muti del XXI Secolo, 11 Oct 2004
Richard Szotyori (GCM): "Anna and Paul lead a very unremarkable life, composed by mechanical habits. One day Anna decides to leave, just putting a note on the table. When Paul comes home and finds her farewell note on the table, his narrow universe suddenly collapses. Next day, the agent of a washing powder company rings at his door, announcing that Paul is the winner of their quiz. His prize, a fantastic red Lamborghini, is waiting for him down in the courtyard. Paul’s nightmare has begun ....."
"Although exclusively financed by Swiss funds, for aesthetic reasons the film was entirely shot in Budapest. The city offers a distinctive kind of outdated feeling that can scarcely be found elsewhere. The whole architecture of the town carries the marks of a monumental and yet abandoned past, which, remaining functional, creates a very strange state of timelessness. This feeling of having been dropped out of time, the central theme of the film, was also intended to be expressed by the very nature of the film – silent, yet shot in color and widescreen." – Richard Szotyori (GCM)
Richard Szotyori was born on 1 January 1972 in Berne, of Hungarian parents. After studies in Switzerland, he enrolled at the Hungarian National Film School in Budapest, where he studied direction, editing, and acting. While working at the Cinémathèque Suisse in Lausanne he has been directing short films, and is now preparing his first full-length feature. He was an original collegian of the Collegium Sacilense of Le Giornate del Cinema Muto, and his passion for silent cinema was largely aroused “by the extraordinary films I had the chance to discover at this festival”.
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