Capriccio

Synopsis

Ostensibly a non-narrative study of various aspects of a rural winter, this short film by one of modern Hungarian cinema’s greatest visual poets has all the spellbinding qualities of his better-known feature debut Sindbad (Szindbád, 1971), but here allied to a winning sense of humour that’s never quite allowed to detract from the haunting beauty of many of the images. The end of autumn is heralded by a few red leaves still clinging to a statue’s sculpted robes, while whip pans across the increasingly wintry landscape and close-ups of rippling water are given character by seemingly random freeze-frames and Zoltán Jeney’s electronic chirrups on the soundtrack. There are recurring shots of birds, migrating en masse, huddled by the icy water or lying individually dead, frozen stiff in the snow. So far Capriccio has been a reasonably generic mood piece, but then the snowmen arrive…

Main Cast

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Sound	Music	Zoltán Jeney
	Sound Director	György Pintér
Editing	Editor	János Tóth
Directing	Director	Zoltán Huszárik
Camera	Director of Photography	János Tóth
Writing	Writer	János Tóth Zoltán Huszárik
Department	Role	Name

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