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A 11. élet (Life Number Eleven)

Title of the film

Original title: A 11. élet
English title: Life Number Eleven
Hungarian title: A 11. élet

Production and shooting info

Country of the production: Hungary - hu
Year of production: 2007
Year of shooting: 2007
Length of the film: 50 min
Colouring: colour
Standard format: DVCAM
Recording format: DVCAM
Original language: Hungarian
Language of subtitle: English

Description of the content

Those days our friend, Gyula as an image of a pretty lady, contemplated the world, from a little cloud floating above his village. He regarded his future father and mother drifted in the corn filed to create him, and waited for dawning, to subsist his eleventh life. ‘Here and now’ a novel of Gyula Illés starts like this. I got tot know Gyula twenty years ago. The story was that the Film Studio Hunnia announced a script writer competition for EVERYONE. At that time, Gyula just was on tapering-off cure in Nagyfa, and wrote a short story about ‘what have on the brain of a baker man at night, while he cooking our daily bread with a perspiration job. Namely, Gyula is a baker. He loves his job, because it has a touchable end product, that is to say he does a reasonable work in every minute, and it is a really kind thing, and that’s why worthy living. But when he left his reasonable work at dawn (moving huge sacks of flour, kneading continuously in swelter – I detail it, just because we never thinking about it, when we slush our bread with an especially mellow butter) Gyula become thirsty, and start to satisfy his needs. And than, he go ‘home’ to the actual lodging, go to sleep, and sleep all the day, than get up, eat something, and leave to the shift for cooking our next daily bread. So, from this point of view, the question is ‘is it worth it? To drink in the morning and eat in the evening, and so on.’ Gyula always come a cropper. Therefore, after Nagyfa, he is a regular visitor of similar institutions, because He never gives up, He wants to get out…

Credits

Director: Edit Kőszegi
Producer: János Vészi
Dramaturg: Mária Rigó
 z. Surányi
Cinematographer: Róbert Bordás
 Róbert Kluzsán
 Gyula Kőszegi
Editor: Oresztész Nemes
Sound: Zoltán Karaszeg
Production manager: Norbert Solymosi

Company / Institution

Production: Fórum Film Alapítvány

Ethnicity and locality

Etnic group: Hungarian
Continent: East Europe
Country: Hungary - hu

Tipology

Type: non-fiction film
Form: documentary film
Beszédmód: portrait

Related sciences

Keyword: alcoholism
 craft, trade