Once They Were Neighbours

Screw Your Courage

Synagogue For Sale

Mr. Mom

Credits

Featuring
Gusztáv Harkai
Ferenc Horváth
Ede Jenkei
Ágoston Kosztich
Mária Németh

András Harkai
József Harkai
László Kiss
Imre Lóránt
László Tomai
Ferenc Tóthárpád
József Tóth
Gusztáv Schwahoffer
Endre Szerdahelyi
Antal Vágvölgyi

Photos, archive materials
Dániel Berzsenyi Library, Szombathely
József Giczy Sr.
Ede Jenkei
Hungarian National Museum, Photo Archive
Széchenyi National Library Könyvtár
Wienerberger Brick Factory Corp.

Music recorded by
Vilmos Noszticzius
INITA Sound Studio

Instrumentation
Egon Balázs

Narrator
Attila Király

Research
Bernadett Frivaldszky
Zsuzsanna Vidra

Post-production
4CUT Digital Workshop

Editor
László Hargittai

Producer and original music
Balázs Wizner

Script and interviews
Bori Kriza

Director and cinematographer
Zsuzsanna Varga


Supported by
Motion Picture Public Foundation of Hungary
Ministry of Cultural Heritage


© 2005. Metafórum Film, Zsuzsanna Varga


Photo: Gábor Klein

BORI KRIZA obtained her MA in Sociology and Sociology of Minorities at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) in Budapest, Hungary and also studied at the Nationalism Studies Program of the Central European University, Budapest. Currently as a beneficiary of the French Government Scholarship she is a Ph.D. candidate at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris as well as at the Institute of Sociology, ELTE. She participated in numerous research projects; her main research interests include far right political parties and ideologies in Europe, national myths and identity, migration, minorities, xenophobia, anti-Semitism and collective memory. She has published extensively in Hungarian and English, her reports and articles appear regularly in the Hungarian press. Since 1999, as expert, researcher, interviewer, she has contributed to several award winning documentaries treating social issues (Being Decorated, The End of the Road, From Home to Home by Tamás Almási).

BALÁZS WIZNER is the director of METAFORUM Media and Research Center. He graduated as a sociologist, got his Master’s degree in Nationalism Studies at CEU (Central European University, Budapest) and has been a Ph.D. student at the Institute of Sociology, Eötvös Loránd University Budapest since 1998. Apart from participating in several research projects and academic activities Balazs Wizner had been the script-writer and co-producer for a short film (Three walks, 2003) and the publisher of two books (A palacsinta hangja – The Sound of Pancake. Collected Writings of Gypsy Children from a Ghetto-Village, 1999. A pilóta – The pilot. Novel, 2000). His second novel will be published in fall 2005. He was the composer of a theater play and a short film, he plays the trumpet and writes music for his own jazz band. He is currently producing three documentary films.

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