Once They Were Neighbours

Screw Your Courage

Synagogue For Sale

Mr. Mom

Credits

Featuring
János Benkő
Anikó Béres
Sándor Béres
Lajosné Gamauf
Tamás Hauer
Péter Ivicsics
Endre György Jelinek
Károly Kiss
Gusztáv Krug
István Mátrai
Margit Tokaj

Photos
National Office of Cultural Heritage - Photo Archive
Lajosné Gamauf

Musicians
Zoltán Hegyaljai-Boros (viola)
János Mazura (tuba)
Zsombor Réthy (trombone)
Zoltán Szokolai (accordion)

Music recorded by
Vilmos Noszticzius
INITA Sound Studio

Post-production
4CUT Digital Workshop

Editor
László Hargittai

Script, interviews
Ilona Gaal
Bori Kriza

Producer - composer
Balázs Wizner

Director - cinematographer
Zsuzsanna Gellér-Varga

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


© 2007. Metafórum Film, Zsurló Film Kft.


ILONA GAAL (interviews, script) currently works as a journalist and editor at the Hungarian National Radio. After obtaining her degree in sociology and economy she published articles at Figyelő (economic weekly), at hvg.hu (online economic portal), and Magyar Narancs (political and current affairs weekly). She worked as the deputy editor in chief at "manager magazin" for 2 years. She wrote an investigative report about the story of the documentary "Synagogue for Sale" for "manager magazin".

BORI KRIZA (interviews, script) 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 (producer-composer) 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.

LÁSZLÓ HARGITTAI (editor) is the founder and co-owner of 4Cut Digital Workshop. Since 1990 he had worked at the Hungarian National Television, at TV3, at Duna Television as an editor. He edited numerous award-winning feature and documentary films (amongst them are the films of Tamás Almási, Réka Pigniczky, András Salamon, Csaba Szekeres).

 

 

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