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Gyöngyökkel gyökereztél (Pearls are your Roots)

Film
Title of the film Original title: Gyöngyökkel gyökereztél
English title: Pearls are your Roots
Hungarian title: Gyöngyökkel gyökereztél

Production and shooting info Country of the production: Hungary - hu
Year of production: from 1997 to 1998
Year of shooting: 0000
Length of the film: 56 min
Colouring: colour
Standard format: Beta SP
Recording format: DV
Original language: Hungarian

Description of the content The film’s director – with the help of the ethnographer Vilmos Tánczos - visits almost twenty Hungarian-speaking men and women who are still able to remember prayers originating from the 13th century, and preserved exclusively through word of mouth. Due to changes in lifestyle, this knowledge will be lost.

Credits Director: Sándor Mohi
Expert: Vilmos Tánczos
Producer: Sándor Buglya
Cinematographer: Sándor Mohi
Editor: Judit Kollányi
Sound: János Gonda
Main character: Vilmos Tánczos

Company / Institution Production: Dunatáj Alapítvány
Distributor: Dunatáj Alapítvány

Ethnicity and locality Etnic group: Hungarian
Continent: East Europe
Country: Romania - ro
Location
 (City, village, region, mountains, etc.): Moldva

Tipology Type: non-fiction film
Form: documentary film

Related sciences Arts: irodalom
Social science: linguistic
 religion studies


Keyword: tradition
 research
 spirituality

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