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Hungarian Rhapsodies

SON OF THE WHITE MARE
FEHÉRLÓFIA

• Director: Marcell Jankovics
• HUNGARY / 1981 / DCP / Colour / 86’ / Hungarian; Turkish, English s.t.

• Screenplay: Marcell Jankovics, László György
• Director of Photography: Zoltán Bacsó
• Editing: Magda Hap, Mária Kern, Valéria Pauka, Judit Szarvas
• Music: István Vajda
• Cast: György Cserhalmi, Vera Pap, Mari Szemes, Gyula Szabó, Ferenc Szalma, Szabolcs Tóth, Ottó Ulmann
• Producer: Román Kunz
• Production Co.: Pannónia Filmstúdió
• World Sales: National Film Institute Hungary

Based on the legends of nomadic Steppe people such as the Huns, Avars, Magyars, Son of the White Mare is one of the world’s most famous animation films, which – at the 1984 Olympiad of Animation in Los Angeles – was voted one of the six best full-length animations and in the top 50 animations of all time. It is the first full-length production in Hungarian animation history. Its dreamlike visuals comprising geometric forms and mandala-like, circular compositions, almost hypnotic colour shifts, accompanied with an ambient-like score have helped the cult status of this psychedelic masterpiece, astonishing fantasy epic. Over his career that spanned six decades, Marcell Jankovics worked on more than 100 films as director, figure designer, culture historian, and animator. A white horse gives birth to Son of the White Mare, a boy with superhuman powers, who, as he grows up, embarks on a journey to defeat the dragons that have taken over the cosmos.

This film will be screened with the short animation The Fly by Ferenc Rofusz.

This film is screened as part of the Turkish-Hungarian Cultural Year with the kind contribution of of the Liszt Institute Hungarian Culture Center and the Hungarian National Film Institute.

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.