Transparent Sound 2026 | Film Club 1. - Memories of a River
12 January 2026. 6:00 pm
Budapest Music Center - Library
1093 Budapest, Mátyás utca 8.
This event of the Transparent Sound Film Club commemorates the recently deceased filmmaker Judit Elek with her 1989 film Memories of a River (Tutajosok). The film is based on the events of the infamous Tiszaeszlár Trial of 1892-93, similar to Miklós Erdély's film Verzió (Version) from a decade earlier. The film's music was composed by Péter Eötvös, using motifs by György Kurtág: in this way, the screening of this rarely seen film is linked to the Eötvös Evening at the House of Music Hungary and to the series of events celebrating György Kurtág, who will turn 100 in 2026.
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Memories of a River
(Tutajosok)
Hungarian film, 1989, 147 min.
director: Judit Elek
screenwriter: Judit Elek, Péter Nádas
cinematographer: Gábor Halász
editor: Katalin Kabdebo
composer: Péter Eötvös, György Kurtág
dramaturg: Zsuzsa Bíró
costume design: Erzsébet Mihalkovszky
set design: Tamás Banovich
sound engineer: György Kovács
production manager: András Ozorai
Cast:
Pál Hetényi, András Stohl, Sándor Gáspár, Franciszek Pieczka, Tamás Fodor, Róbert Koltai, Andor Lukáts, Zoltán Mucsi, János Ács, Tamás Erőss, Györgyi Tarján, Miklós Székely B., István Mészáros
The film will be introduced by Marcell Dargay, composer and curator of the Transparent Sound New Music Festival.
Entry to the program is free, but due to the limited number of seats (80) a primary registration via e-mail (papp.krisztina@bmc.hu) is requested by 12:00 noon, 9th of January 2026, the latest. Thanks for your understanding!
