Summer on the Hill (1967)

The concert film will be screened in Hungarian.

In November 1967, the film introduction of the 42-year-old Péter Bacsó's third movie also primarily focuses on the youth: its teacher and artist protagonists purchase a deserted building of a disbanded internment camp for a very low price. As they live their lives, they are forced to face everything that happened at this place — the past thus inevitably intrudes into their present lives. As Bacsó put it in a contemporary interview: “The personality cult was also the work of people, who must take responsibility for it, even if certain historical circumstances and processes seemingly made its distortions necessary. But we cannot blame everything on history. From today's perspective, the decisive point is how we face ourselves back then. Even if the young girl in my movie barely understands how a communist could have felt — in a communist prison.” The film's two important songs were composed by the then twenty-four-year-old Tamás Cseh.

The film(s) were provided by the National Film Institute Nonprofit Zrt.