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„Még oda nem ér az idő…” ("Until the Time Comes…")

Title of the film

Original title: „Még oda nem ér az idő…”
English title: "Until the Time Comes…"
Hungarian title: „Még oda nem ér az idő…”

Production and shooting info

Country of the production: Hungary - hu
Year of production: from 2007 to 2008
Year of shooting: 2007
Length of the film: 25 min
Colouring: colour
Standard format: DVD
Recording format: DV
Original language: Hungarian
Language of subtitle: English

Description of the content

The film features an old woman named Ilonka, who lives in a small village in the outskirts of Magyarkanizsa. The locals call this place ‘Mosquito Village’. The travellers of the passing railbus can see only two rows of houses and most of them stare in surprise and cannot believe that there are people who live here, far from the din of the town. It is a small world where time seems to have stopped, and I think it has stopped indeed. The village’s only connection with the outside world is the railbus that passes two times a day. Ilonka has been living here for decades- keeping animals and working on her fields in order to supplement her little pension,- in this isolated community where time goes by at a snail’s pace as every day is the same. Meanwhile the world goes on. An everyday story, the film does not concentrate on the plot itself. As days form a continuum, one day after another, time becomes absolute. This continuum is like a chain and we collect the links of the days and years. It is not the story that is important to me. It is the everyday life of the old woman, who is far beyond seventy, what makes me wonder. I would like to know about her little insignificant rituals and find the person behind them. I would like to know what life is like in this secluded world in the back of beyond. The film is also trying to find out if this tiny, stooped woman feels good in the middle of nowhere, if she accepts her fate. When time continuum is disrupted our relationship with the world changes and our point of view gets the main role. My aim is to reveal and show this delicate point of view. Everyday rituals, strange as it may sound, are the only events in this world, and these events mark the flow of time. Collecting eggs, feeding chicken, corn shelling, cooking and baking are the activities that make the days go by. I know little about the old woman, but I know that she lives in reduced circumstances, that her pension is a trifling sum of money, and therefore her neighbours buy corn and eggs from her. Sometimes she even sells at the town’s market so that she can buy what she needs. However, I do not want to emphasize her story, the film is not really about her. What I want to show for a brief moment is the fate with its cruelty and mercy, ungratefulness and gratitude- the fate that many people share. I follow her to the town in order to show what it is like when she leaves her own world, and how she perceives the town, where she often goes to do her duties. My aim is to contrast her world with the town life, and enable the encounter of points of view. The rail bus rattling along every day adds to this contrast but also shows something else. It brings regularity into the village people’s life - the railbus and the days pass together, while the stooped old woman stays at the same place, doing everything in the same way, as she always did. The point of view and the relations are the essence of everything. I hope that others will share my curiosity and we can catch a glimpse of the very moments of time in this everyday story, noticing the strange, the special, and the surprising moments of life…Relations, circumstances and fate that is above all- and all this through a unique personality. ‘Until the time comes…’

Credits

Made by: Zoltán Csubriló
Expert: Sándor Buglya
Producer: Sándor Buglya

Company / Institution

Production: Duna Televízió

Ethnicity and locality

Etnic group: Hungarian
Continent: East Europe
Country: Serbia - sr.yu
Location
 (City, village, region, mountains, etc.): Vajdaság

Tipology

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

Related sciences

Keyword: rural life
 way of living
 időskor