A hagyaték (The Legacy)

Film

Title of the film Original title: A hagyaték
English title: The Legacy
Hungarian title: A hagyaték
Original subtitle: Schmidt Éva portré
English subtitle: A Portrait of Eva Schmidt
Hungarian subtitle: Schmidt Éva portré

Production and shooting info Country of the production: Hungary - hu
Year of production: from 2002 to 2004
Year of shooting: from 2002 to 2004
Length of the film: 90 min
Colouring: colour
Standard format: DV
Recording format: DV
Original language: Khanty
Hungarian
Russian
Language of subtitle: English

Description of the content On the 4th of July 2002, Eva Schmidt, Hungarian ethnologist, died in the Western-Siberian town of Khanty-Mansijsk. Four months later, a three-member delegation set out to bring home and make an inventory of her legacy. The mission failed and the legacy only arrived back in Hungary some six months later. Lack of interest and sacrifice; scientific diplomacy and Khanty shaman women; political intrigue and the curse of a goddess; a fantastic folklore collection that is still closed and inaccessible and Eva who promised to return and guard her collection and the fate of the Khanty people in the form of a bear. This all makes up: The Legacy.

Credits Director: Zoltán Füredi
Film idea by: István Sántha
Producer: Zoltán Füredi
Dramaturg: Balázs Gát
Riporter: Zoltán Füredi
Cinematographer: István Sántha
Péter Dömötör
Editor: Zoltán Füredi
Sound: Vince Kapcsos
Assistant director: Orsolya Komlósi
Main character: Éva Schmidt
Casting: Márta Csepregi
Eszter Ruttkay-Miklián
István Sántha

Company / Institution Production: Palantír Film Visual Anthropological Foundation
Distributor: Palantír Film Visual Anthropological Foundation

Ethnicity and locality Etnic group: Khanty
Continent: Central Europe
North Asia
Country: Hungary - hu
Russia - ru
Location
(City, village, region, mountains, etc.): Beloyarsk
West-Siberia
Budapest

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

Related sciences Social science: cultural anthropology
ethnography
orientalism
psychology
religion studies

Keyword: identity
death
suicide
research
spirituality
scientific life

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