The “national cinemas” of the former Eastern Bloc countries are hardly unknown to film lovers the world over. Despite cultural divisions and conflicts during the Cold War, many filmmakers from Poland, Hungary, the former Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia received international acclaim from the 1950s to the 1980s. Less well known and rarely seen at home and abroad are the products of filmmaking outside the major state studios in post-war Eastern Europe.
The exhibition presents the diversity of filmmaking and early video practice in this country in the post-war period, and the work of artists and amateurs as well as professionals who, despite restrictions, produced independent and experimental works both independently and with the support of smaller, state-funded amateur film clubs, festivals and studios.
Filmmakers: Gábor Bódy, Judit Elek, Ildikó Enyedi, Miklós Erdély, Benedek Fliegauf, Péter Forgács, Gyula Gazdag, Ferenc Grunwalsky, Tibor Hajas, Zoltán Huszárik, Igor Buharov and Ivan Buharov, Marcell Iványi, Miklós Jancsó, András Jeles, Sándor Kardos, György Kovásznai, Dezső Magyar, Dóra Maurer, Gyula Nemes, László Nemes Jeles, István Szabó, Tibor Szemző, Tamás Szentjóby, Béla Tarr, Péter Tímár, János Tóth