Mémoires d'un fleuve

Original title: Tutajosok

1989
2h 27m

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Mail author for translation. A film Solymosi Eszter titkok ovezte vizbefulasa es a tiszaeszlari per nyomdokaba ered. Egy zsido hegyi pasztor, Scharf Jozsef a kozak pogrom elol menekul a Mona... Read allMail author for translation. A film Solymosi Eszter titkok ovezte vizbefulasa es a tiszaeszlari per nyomdokaba ered. Egy zsido hegyi pasztor, Scharf Jozsef a kozak pogrom elol menekul a Monarchia teruletere. Ruszin es zsido favagok veszik gondozasba. Hersko David fogadja be a csa... Read allMail author for translation. A film Solymosi Eszter titkok ovezte vizbefulasa es a tiszaeszlari per nyomdokaba ered. Egy zsido hegyi pasztor, Scharf Jozsef a kozak pogrom elol menekul a Monarchia teruletere. Ruszin es zsido favagok veszik gondozasba. Hersko David fogadja be a csaladjaba, egyutt ulik a husvetot. Mikor a fausztatok szokasos evi utjukra keszulodnek a Tis... Read all

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6.6/10

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6susansweb

Long but fairly effective story

This type of story has been done before. Hungarian Jews are being persecuted during earlier times. The fact that it is a Hungarian production kept me watching because I was unsure what was going to happen, unlike most conventional studio product. An unintentional byproduct of the film was that I was amazed by how many rituals some religions have and it makes one wonder why people put up with it. One thing is for certain that the film doesn't make me long for the old days. Absorbing film but for one viewing only.

7skinnybert

Anti-Semitism in Middle Europe at the turn of the last century

Difficult to find these days, but an award-winner in its time. I first saw MEMORIES OF A RIVER from mid-film on TV & found its court drama absorbing enough to want to see the whole film from the beginning. When I did, I found the first half rather in need of more editing, but it didn't diminish my enjoyment of the second half.

It's not surprising that the one reviewer here from Hungary itself would find the film wanting for balance; I have yet to see a Jewish-life-in-middle-Europe film that pleased the non-Jewish peoples of those areas -- just ask Poles about WW2 & Auschwitz. If the details are biased (or even wrong) the film still convincingly creates a feeling of being tried as an outsider in a small village.

1jkrqoj

The director is a sadist!

For the purposes of the film 14 sheep were spread with flammable substance, and then to the order by Judit Elek were burned alive!

I don't care if it is a good film, or it is not and whether she has talent. She should spend the rest of her life in jail, and all her films should be banned. It is not all right to make money while harming innocent creatures and still to call it art. I don't understand how anybody agreed to work with that psychopath. Some time ago, 69 scientists from the Jagiellonian University demanded from authorities of forbidding Judit Elek entry to Poland. Scientists wrote among others: "No director knowing her own worth would debase herself for using so primitive and cruel methods". But of course it failed, she arrived and she got an award for her other film.

10dbenrechab

Excellent, hauntingly beautiful movie

I was fortunate to have seen the English version, with subtitles,"Memoirs of a River." The plot of this beautiful, haunting work is based upon an actual incident in 1880 and takes place within the Austro-Hungarian Empire near the Carpatho-Russian region. The story is interesting but the art of the movie expresses, through film as well as melodies the simple, but profound spirituality of a people and time that are no more. This rare piece of cinema is an example of the fragility and the rare peaks of European cinema unknown to most people; this profound movie evokes spiritual sensibilities reminiscent of Werner Herzog's latest and greatest masterpiece,"Invincible" or the 1972 Russian classic,"Solaris."

10lynnsaul

Compelling story and setting

This film shows a powerful story of Jews in the part of Hungary my ancestors are from--the subcarpathian Tisza River area. The scenery is beautiful and the story told is true. It defeats stereotypes of what life was like for European Jews and shows a variety of reactions to the difficulties they faced with compelling characters whose acting is so good you forget you are watching a film. Another comment shows annoyance with ritual; I found the portrayal of traditional Jewish rituals as part of the characters' everyday lives extremely meaningful in the dramatic development of the story--and authentic. This film does not seem to be available any longer for purchase--a shame.

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For the purposes of the film 14 sheep were spread with flammable substance, and then to the order by Judit Elek were burned alive. 69 scientists from the Jagiellonian University demanded from authorities of forbidding Judit Elek entry to Poland. Scientists wrote among others: "No director knowing his own worth would debase himself for using so primitive and cruel methods".