''Season of Monsters'' ( hu, Szörnyek évadja) is a 1987 Hungarian
drama film
In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super-g ...
written by
Gyula Hernádi
Gyula Hernádi (23 August 1926 – 20 July 2005) was a Hungarian writer and screenwriter. He wrote for 36 films between 1965 and 2005, mostly for director Miklós Jancsó. He also wrote many novels, mostly surrealistic science fiction or h ...
and directed by
Miklós Jancsó
Miklós Jancsó (; 27 September 192131 January 2014) was a Hungarian film director and screenwriter.
Jancsó achieved international prominence starting in the mid-1960s with works including '' The Round-Up'' (''Szegénylegények'', 1965), ''T ...
.
The film was entered into the main competition at the
44th edition of the
Venice Film Festival
The Venice Film Festival or Venice International Film Festival ( it, Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica della Biennale di Venezia, "International Exhibition of Cinematographic Art of the Venice Biennale") is an annual film festival he ...
, and it got a Jury Honorable Mention "for the coherence with which he carries on and renews his expressive research in a period of rapid evolution of film language".
[F. Maurice Speed, James Cameron-Wilson. ''Film Review''. Columbus Books, 1988.]
Plot
At a country house, a retiring teacher celebrates his birthday, where professors and students discuss Existentialism and philosophy. Then an unsettling play opens up a mystery.
Cast
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József Madaras
József Madaras (16 August 1937 – 24 April 2007) was a Hungarian film actor. He appeared in more than 80 films between 1958 and 2006.
Selected filmography
* ''Tales of a Long Journey'' (1963)
* '' The Round-Up'' (1965)
* '' The Red and ...
as Kamondi
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György Cserhalmi
György Cserhalmi (born 17 February 1948, in Budapest) is a Hungarian actor. He graduated from the Actors Academy in 1971. He is also the founder of the Labdater Theatre in the Globe cultural centre.
Employment
*1971: Debrecen Csokonai Theat ...
as Dr. Bardócz
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Ferenc Kállai
Ferenc Kállai (4 October 1925 – 11 July 2010) was a Hungarian film actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1952 to 2007.
Selected filmography
References
External links
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1925 births
2 ...
as Sándor Kovács
* Júlia Nyakó as Kati
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Katarzyna Figura
Katarzyna Małgorzata Figura (Polish pronunciation: ; born 22 March 1962) is a Polish film, theatre and television actress. She is sometimes billed as "Kasia Figura", as in ''Prêt-à-Porter'', Robert Altman's 1994 film.
Career
Figura was bor ...
as Annabella
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András Bálint
András Bálint (born 26 April 1943) is a Hungarian actor. He has appeared in more than 75 films and television shows since 1958.
Selected filmography
* ''Father'' (1966)
* '' The Confrontation'' (1969)
* '' Szerelmesfilm'' (1970)
* '' Trotta' ...
as Zoltán Zoltai
* Miklós B. Székely as The Deaf-mute
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András Kozák
András Kozák (23 February 1943 – 24 February 2005) was a Hungarian film actor. He appeared in more than seventy films from 1962 to 2005.
Selected filmography
References
External links
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Kozak, Andras
1943 births
200 ...
as Colonel Antal
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Lajos Balázsovits
Lajos Balázsovits (born 4 December 1946) is a Hungarian film actor. He appeared in 60 films from 1968 to 2006.
Selected filmography
* ''The Upthrown Stone'' (1969)
* '' The Confrontation'' (1969)
* ''Milarepa'' (1974)
* ''Electra, My Love'' ( ...
as Zimmermann
References
External links
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1987 drama films
1987 films
Films directed by Miklós Jancsó
Hungarian drama films
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