In article >, Gabor Toth
> wrote:

> At a recent film festival held here in Wellington, New Zealand, I was 
> lucky enough to have the chance to see Bela Tarr's epic 7 hour long film 
> "Satantango" (Satan's Tango). What I saw will probably remain in my mind 
> for the rest of my life - one of the most astounding pieces of cinema I 
> have ever witnessed. I know that it was released in 1994 and that it was 
> a Hungarian/German/Austrian co-production, but can anyone tell me how 
> long the film took to make and who wrote it? Was it based on a novel, and 
> if so, when was this published? Thanks - 

I would also like to know where I could by or rent the film, if it was
available.

Steve

In article >, 
 says...

>     
>          
>     ps: like your poetry, though.....<seriously>......how about some more 
>     samples?.....
>    -cristian 

Welcome to the club Cristian. I liked your Romanians voyage impressions which 
shows that deep inside you have unwritten books. On SCR we are less of a 
rarity than it may seem. Every time a poem sppears here, you should read the 
litterary criticism of some fartics.

(Farting critics=fartics, a Keelerian image, taken unconsciously from 
Appolinaire and Tristian Tzara)

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Szerbus!I am hoping you can help me.I was born in New 
Zealand(Aotearoa).My father,CSOKAS,Marton was born in 
1926,sector1,Budapest,Hungary.His parents were;CSOKAS,Gyorg and 
Holzinger,Karolina born respectively,Budapest and Esztergom.                   
 
I would appreciate any information you are able to give me concerning 
these matters.Please excuse my lack of Magyar.I`m still learning.I 
would prefer information in Angol,however if need be I can have 
Hungarian translated.                                                 
                                                                               
 
Thank You for your time and assistance in this matter.I look forward 
to hearing from you.    Kesonom Szepek,Csokas Marton

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In article > , 
writes:
>Was that proposed quietly dropped ?

Perhaps, because Göncz has nothing to do with minorities,
he does not have the licences to get involved. As far as I
know we have ombudsman for handling minority issues.

Tamas

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In article > Liviu Iordache,
 writes:
>In my opinion the ethnicity was not an isssue in those times.

So we are agree on it.

>It is my understanding that you think it was and, therefore, this
>is why Cilli stressed (i.e., lied according to your opinion)
>Hunyadi's non-Hungarian origin. It wouldn't make any sense to
>accuse him of being a foreigner if that was no big deal for most
>of the other nobles, right?

>This is simply not enough. If Cilli was lying, it means that
>his intention was to discredit Hunyadi with the other nobles.
>Obviously, if nobody cared about the ethnic issue it means that
>Cilli was firing blanks.

I don't think so.  I think he tried to discredit Hunyady primarily
as not beeing a proper noble family. H. was not rich his family
was not ancient or a known one. C. also emphasized that this guy
came from nowhere,  he is an *outsider*. This was frequently
used by the Hungarian nobility when the king favoured foreigners
at their costs. The same tactics was applied against the  first
Anjou king for example.

>>After all, he was who started to spread the juicy story of
>>the Sigismund legend as well.

>Really? My guess was that Hunyadi and his sons had only to
>benefit from this legend. Was Cilli trying to hurt them or to
>help? Bonifi and Chalcocondylas also recorded this legend
>and both these authors wrote admiringly about Hunyadi.

As far as i know Thuroczy who discussed the history of Hun-
garian until 1487 did not mentioned the Sigismund legend.
His book is a thorough work which suggests that the legend
had not existed yet. Bonfini in his book "Libellus de Corvinia-
nae Domus origine" (1486) originated the family from the
Roman Valerius family, he mentioned the legend as a gossip
later and on other place.
This gossip must have risen between 1488-90 in the court
of Matthias when the inheritance of throne was in question
and Matthias wanted his son, Janos Corvin, to see as his
successor.
I don't know who created the legend (Matthias is not from
the old and noble Valerius family but a bastard of Sigis-
mund) but Cilley played an active role in spreading it.
It might have been a trick from the court that they accep-
ted later this story as origin of Matthias to fool the Cilley
clan.

Tamas

In article >  (CLIFFORD BURT
ON LEE (1962.02.10-1986.09.26)) writes:
>Who watched the Hungarian TV2 yesterday at 18.13???
>I saw one man called "Gyalu bacsi". His correct name Gelu Pateanu.
>He died in April 1995 in Budapest.
[...]
>If any of you know more about Gelu P. and your english is better than mine,
>please write sg. about this man. Thanx! 

Here is what Prisznyák Miklós > wrote about him when
he died, he translated it from the newspaper Magyar Nemzet (= Hu. Nation).
-- Olivier

| Romanian poet and translator of literature died at the age of 70 in
| Budapest. He has been burried today. 
|
| He was born in Kolozsva'r (Cluj). Kolozsva'r, Ete'd, E'nlaka, Bucharest and 
| Budapest were the places he was committed to, personally and in 
| his literary works.  
|
| He emigrated to Hungary in 1990.  He held lectures on literature at Eotvos 
| University (ELTE) in Budapest  and the University of Miskolc. 
| Besides his literary work he has done some fifty Hungarian poems and novels
| into Romanian.  
|
| A true Transylvanian gentleman, a living bridge between the Hungarian and 
| Romanian nations was he.

Laura:

Lucy and Tibor Fueresz might be able to give you information on Hungarian 
language classes in the Seattle area.  Their phone number is (206) 232-6575.

Also check with the Language Lab at the U.W.  One of its former 
directors was a Hungarian, so they probably have some tapes you can 
borrow or copy.

Victor Marx

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