Screening Of An Hungarian Movie - Dreaming Youth

 Dreaming Youth is an appealing film about an adolescent boy growing up innocent 
  in a sleepy Hungarian town, and his eventual loss of innocence. The year is 
  1906. Professor Simon Bauer strolls along the promenade with his wife Jenny 
  and his son Herbert. Bauer is at the center of attention at the moment for he 
  will deliver a lecture to the nobility of the town. He is already receiving 
  greetings and congratulations, and young Herbert happily basks in his father's 
  glory.

  

  Herbert suddenly finds another boy Odon, who offers an "alliance" to Herbert, 
  and this is also the wish of his father. The two boys become friends, and their 
  games suddenly turn serious. They capture a girl who runs away from the reform 
  school, and hide her in the "room of friendship". Herbert releases the girl 
  and therefore Odon splits with him.

  

  In the meantime, the ambitiously organized French circle of Professor Bauer 
  also dissolves - at one of the meetings Petrol sarcastically recalls the story 
  of the "ghost island" and connects this with the experience of the 1905 revolution: 
  "The intellectuals have to choose between compromise and revolution." The shocked 
  burghers leave the Bauer house and the police warn him to pick his friends more 
  carefully in the future.

  

  Simon Bauer falls to bed in his isolation and is encouraged by his wife to go 
  the capital for a thorough examination and ask for help from his old friends. 
  During his last stroll at the promenade hardly anybody takes notice of him, 
  and he sees that the friendship of Herbert and Odon has also declined. At the 
  end of the celebration, the Hungarian students chase the Slovak children and 
  Odon breaks the window where the children ran for refuge.

  

  Simon Bauer has no more strength, although his quiet and shy wife tries to encourage 
  him. After the death of the father, mother and son remain alone. A mobile cinema 
  holds performances in the town. Herbert recognizes the audience on the screen 
  in great astonishment. Suddenly the world of the little town opens up and the 
  cinema shows the events of the world. Demonstrations in London and Paris and 
  pictures of the quelled Russian revolution.

  

  Hungary/1974/color/81min

  Direction: Janos Rozsa

  

  Please contact Prakash Reddy of the Hyderabad Film Club at 373-0841/373-0265 
  for further details.