Vendégmunkások (1971)

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Hintergrundinformationen zum Film

Aus András Bálint Kovács' The cinema of Béla Tarr. The circle closes:

"[A] group of gypsy workers [...] wrote a letter to János Kádár, first secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers Party, asking him to grant them permission to leave the country to work in Austria, because they could not find enough work at home. [...] [T]his story inspired the sixteen-year-old Tarr to ask these workers to talk about their situation and motivation for the camera. With two friends they formed a filmmaking group they named after Dziga Vertov (referring to Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin's 'Dziga Vertov Group'). Tarr's Dziga Vertov Group made a documentary about these men, and sent this film, Guest Workers (lost since then), to an amateur film festival, where it won the first prize. [...] The workers took this well, but the Communist Party did not. One day [...] Tarr was ordered to screen the film to the party officials. They watched the film but didn't say anything. They let him go, and no direct retaliation was undertaken. But a year later, when [...] he wanted to study at university, he was told not even to think about it. He was denied admission to every higher educational institution in the country." (Wallflower 2013; S. 8).