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Hungarian Rhapsodies

THE FLY
A LÉGY

• Director: Ferenc Rofusz
• HUNGARY / 1980 / DCP / Colour / 3’ / No dialogue; s.t.

• Screenplay: Ferenc Rofusz
• Director of Photography: Zoltán Bacsó
• Editing: János Czipauer
• Producer: Ferenc Rofusz
• Production Co.: Mafilm, Pannónia Filmstúdió
• World Sales: National Film Institute Hungary

1981 Oscar (USA) Best Short Film, Animated
1981 Krakow Don Quixote Award

A film without words, seen from the perspective of a fly who flies around a garden and then finds itself in a house on an autumn day. The jarring, fast movements of the camera muddy palette, and the buzzing soundtrack elevate the film to a pioneering animation classic. It is said that the original ending had the fly kill the human, but government officials forced Rófusz to change it around. Clever, funny, and fast, The Fly won the Oscar in 1981 for best animated short, but the communist regime did not allow Rófusz to leave Hungary to collect his award, and someone else received it posing as him.

This film will be screened with the animation Son of the White Mare by Marcell Jankovics.

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.