Out of Competition


BALLROOM DANCING



Country of production: Hungary
Year: 2003
Language: Hungarian
Mins: 42

Director: Livia Gyarmathy
Script: Livia Gyarmathy
Cinematography: Endre Bognar,
Klara Peter
Editing: Beata Eszlari
Producer: Zsuzsa Boszormenyi
Production company: BGB Film, Ltd.
Source: Eva Vezer
Magyar Filmunio
Varosligeti fasor 38
Budapest 1068
HUNGARY
Phone: +36 1 351 7760
Fax: +36 1 352 6734
kati.vajda@filmunio.hu
www.filmunio.hu

This one's for all the dance lovers.

Once a week, an elderly dance teacher drives to a rural village to teach dance classes. These classes are major social events - they are expressions of fantasy, where teachers, postmen, and pig farmers don patent leather shoes and dance off into another world.

Keeping commentary and dialogue to a minimum, BALLROOM DANCING focuses on this glorious milieu and the both clumsy and magnificent moves of the people gliding through it.

Livia Gyarmathy (born 1932) studied chemical engineering, worked in a textile factory, and then graduated from Budapest's Academy of Dramatic, Film, and Television Arts.

filmography as director
(selected)
BALLROOM DANCING (2003)
OUR STORK (2000)
YOU THE HUNGARIAN GULAG (1987)
EVERY WEDNESDAY (1979)
YOU KNOW 'SUNDAY-MONDAY'? (1969)

Tuesday 06-Apr-2004 7:00 PM Gallery Theatre
Screening with THE MOSCOW SIEGE

Tuesday 20-Apr-2004 7:00 PM Gallery Theatre screening with COMPETITION