Budapest Classic Film Marathon to pay tribute to Hungary’s Jancsó, Törőcsik, Jankovics

The Budapest Classic Film Marathon, the capital city’s largest international film event, will pay tribute to renowned director Miklós Jancsó, and legendary actress Mari Törőcsik and eminent animation director Marcell Jankovics, both of whom died this year, the organiser said on Tuesday.

The event running between September 21 and 26 will feature several classic films restored recently by Hungary’s National Film Institute (NFI) and foreign films with a Hungarian connection in a free open-air cinema set up at the square in front of Saint Stephen’s Basilica and other venues, NFI told MTI in a statement.

Commemorating the birth anniversary of multi-award winning Jancsó, the film festival will show his digitally restored iconic titles The Round-Up (1966), Cantata (1963), Winter Wind (1969), Electra, My Love (1974) and God Walks Backword (1991) at the square and in the Urania and Toldi cinemas and in the French Institute.