Second Run DVD - The Hungarian Masters Collection

Hungary, 1964 / 1971 / 1982
Length / Main features: 248 minutes
Length / Special feature: 98 minutes
Sound: Original mono (restored)
Black & White
Original aspect ratio: 16x9 / 1.78:1
Language: Hungarian
Subtitles: English On/Off
PAL DVD5 x 1/ DVD9 x 2
Region 0
RRP: £24.99

Release Date: 21st June 2010
Second Run DVD 048

Second Run DVD proudly presents this specially-priced collection of remarkable films from three of Hungary’s most renowned filmmakers: Miklós Jancsó, Károly Makk and Márta Mészáros. A perfect introduction and opportunity to experience the variety, veracity and genius of classic Hungarian cinema.

Box Set contains:
My Way Home (Így jöttem) (Miklós Jancsó, 1964)
Love (Szerelem) (Károly Makk, 1971)
Diary for My Children (Napló gyermekeimnek) (Márta Mészáros, 1982)

This Limited Edition Box Set contains director-approved presentations of all the films, and includes filmed interviews with directors Károly Makk and Márta Mészáros; booklets featuring essay by author Catherine Portuges on Márta Mészáros and a reprint of Penelope Houston’s seminal 1969 Sight & Sound article on Miklós Jancsó. Also and includes Máramaros the second film in Miklós Jancsó’s renowned but rarely-seen documentary series Message of Stones (A kövek üzenete).

• Director-approved presentations of all the films.

• Anamorphic 16.9 enhanced transfers with restored picture
and sound.

• Filmed interviews with directors Károly Makk and Márta Mészáros.

• The inclusion of Máramaros, the second film in Miklós Jancsó's renowned but rarely-seen documentary series Message of Stones (A kövek üzenete).

• Improved English subtitle translation.

• Booklets featuring essay by author Catherine Portuges on Márta Mészáros and a reprint of Penelope Houston's seminal 1969 Sight & Sound article on Miklós Jancsó.

Miklós Jancsó’s acclaimed films The Red and the White and The Round-Up and Károly Makk’s Another Way and A Long Weekend in Pest and Buda are also available from Second Run DVD.

LOVE:
“Combining lyricism, philosophy and politics is not an easy feat but one can't really ask for a more perfectly rounded effort than Love...”
DVD Times

MY WAY HOME
“One of the most moving and clear-sighted analyses of male sensibilities and friendship in all cinema”
Tony Rayns, Time Out

“A rare, moving film for everyone” Total Film

DIARY FOR MY CHILDREN
“An instant classic of Hungarian cinema ...Mészáros stunning romanticist memoir” Little White Lies