The Tragedy of Man
For the magazine's twentieth anniversary this year, a series of screenings has been planned on the double bill principle, with the main focus on a selection of rarely-seen films. Other movies in the program are also important milestones in the development of the critics' dialogue within one of Quebec's most dynamic film magazines.
Written by Imre Madách, The Tragedy Of A Man is a key play in Hungarian culture. Marcell Jankovics spent almost three decades working on the project. He began the script in 1983, and the film came out in 2011. It follows Adam and Eve who, after being expelled from paradise, come to an agreement with Lucifer to explore in their sleep the future of mankind and its great civilizations: Antiquity, Middle Ages, Reformation, French Revolution, 19th Century...
Marcell Jankovics
Marcell Jankovics is a Hungarian animator, film director, graphic artist, and author. He is best known for his animated films Johnny Corncob (1973), the first animated feature of his native country, based on the narrative poem John the Valiant by Sándor Petőfi, and Son of the White Mare (1981), cited as one of the best animated films ever made. He received an Academy Award nomination in 1974 for his animated short film Sisyphus before winning a Palme d'Or with The Struggle at the Cannes Film Festival in 1977. Jankovics' other notable films include Song of the Miraculous Hind (2002) and The Tragedy of Man (2011). In 2021, he received the posthumous Lifetime Achievement Award from the CineFest Miskolc International Film Festival.
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