Sinbad ( Szindbád ) ( Szindbad )

Sinbad (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Szindbád
Alternate Title: Szindbad
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
Hungarian ( Mono )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
90 min + 12 min extras

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Anamorphic Widescreen
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Booklet
Remastered

Movie filmed in 1971 and produced in:
Hungary ( Russia, Eastern Europe )

Directed By:
Zoltán Huszárik

Written By:
Zoltán Huszárik
Gyula Krúdy

Actors:
Zoltán Latinovits ..... Szindbád
Éva Ruttkai ..... Lenke
Eva Leelossy ..... A fiatal Lenke
Margit Dajka ..... Majmunka
Anna Nagy ..... Fruzsina
Györgyi Andai ..... Setétke
Erika Szegedi ..... Florentina
Anna Muszte ..... Virágárus lány
Sándor Horváth ..... Valentin
Éva Pap ..... Szépszemü lány
Anna Czako ..... Valentin felesége
Zoltán Zelk ..... Nusdorf bácsi
Ildikó Bánsági ..... Mária
Mária Medgyesi ..... Paula
Ernõ Szénási ..... Vendelin

Synopsis:

This lavish Hungarian film chronicles the exploits of a Magyar Casanova in the early years of the 20th century. Sensual Szindbad (Zoltan Latinovitz) leaves behind broken hearts and fond memories when he moves from one woman to another. Some of them, overwhelmed by their tragic attachment, seek to have him join them in a suicide pact, others carelessly toss their lives away. He remains fundamentally untouched, but he finally gets his comeuppance at a grand dinner in a fine restaurant. The headwaiter confides in him at great length about troubles he is having with his wife, who was one of Szindbad's conquests.

Regarded as one of the great 'lost' masterpieces of international cinema, Zoltán Huszárik's 1971 film is finally availabe for the first time on DVD. A surreal and highly stylized adaptation of the early 20th century writings of author Gyula Krúdy, the film depicts the life, loves and memories of traveller and womanizer Szindbád (played by the great Hungarian actor Zoltán Latinovits), as he contemplates his life of hedonism and impropriety and who tries to recover his great lost love before he dies. Evoking time and memory to extraordinary effect, Szindbád is a filmic elegy that is both lyrical and surreal - an experience unlike anything in modern cinema.

An old man is recollecting all the women he met in his youth. An old woman wants them to commit suicide together but changes her mind. The little town has a doctor whose wife can not forget the old man, and the waiter who serves him his dinner doesn't know that Sinbad will soon court her.

This product was added to our catalog on Saturday 13 August, 2011.

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