Exhibition

 Baruch Spinoiza and the Golem of Amsterdam

Emil Fuer paintings can be seen in the Suez gallery

april 28 2010- June 13 2010 

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 Presentation in the Suez Gallery

18 April 2010 at 19:00       

Maria van Hongarije in memorial „Stephan Lang”

Film: Kameleon (optional) – Film about Maria van Hongarije is planned and in progress.

Location: Den Haag 2517 CB Suezkade 117

 Pal Breznay paintings can be viewed in the Gallery Suez

28 february -20 april 2010

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Hungarian Cultural and Natural Seminar and Film Club in 2009/2010
 

6 April 2010 at 19:00       

Film: Made In Hungaria

Hungarian with English subtitles

will be followed by

Presentation

Hungarian Music & Dance with Turk(ish) Elements

Location: DE DOELEN , Singel 421. Amsterdam (UvA)

 Room opens 15 minutes before the begin of the presentation
Contribution: EUR 7.50 (student: EUR 5)

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 Invitation

Hungarian Cultural and Natural Seminar and Film Club in 2009/2010
 
This study year we focus on
2009 - the 20th anniversary of the fall of the communism
2010 - EU cultural capitals: Pécs, Hungary & Istanbul , Turkey

    2 March  2010 at 19.00

Presentation:

Travel with Evliya Çelebi in Hungary

 By Mehmet Tütüncü 

Pécs in southern Hungary, is one of the city / with Istanbul and Essen / chosen to be in 2010 European capital of culture.The Hungarian city of Pécs is highlighting its rich multicultural heritage. This is a place where we can still discover traces of the Turkish rule and in this aspect the city is the most oriental city of Hungary .

In Pécs we can find several Mosques still in used. One of the famous one is the Betktasi dervisch Mosque. Has to be mentioned the unique tomb of the Turkish holly man Idris Baba.

mr Mehmet Tütüncü  introduces in his lecture some Turkish monuments of Pécs, which give this city a unique Hungarian-Turks character and travels through Hungary   starting his journey with the memories of the world traveler Evliya Celebi from  the 17 th century ….

Film : The Little Voyage /A kis utazás

Hungary (2000) 100 min., color, 35mm
Hungarian with English subtitles

Director: Mihály Buzás

About the Film
Eastern European films have always had a special place for the personal history, the people's-eye, ground level view of a now discredited past. In this breezy, sarcastic story, set in the 1970s, a group of Hungarian teenagers win the coveted prize of a trip "abroad"--a summer's labor at a GDR youth camp. The supposed national characteristics of the Germans and the Hungarians sometimes come into play, but the real comedy is provided by incomprehension of other kinds; the usual gap between teenagers and adults is everywhere altered by the hypocritical need to pay "lip service" to the building of socialist character. ….

Locations: DE  DOELEN , Singel 425. Amsterdam   (UvA)
Room opens 15 minutes before the begin of the presentation
Contribution: EUR 7.50 (student: EUR 5)

 

We hope to welcome you at our presentation

Here you can find our next presentations in the study year of 2009/2010. Please put it on in your diary and be welcome.

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En Hongaarse In Amstelveen 
     

 Hungarian Cultural and Natural Seminar and Film Club in 2009/2010
 
This study year we focus on
2009 - the 20th anniversary of the fall of the communism
2010 - EU cultural capitals: Pécs, Hungary & Istanbul, Turkey

2 February 2010 at 19.00

Film :

The Investigator (A Nyomozó)

Dir: Attila Gigor. Hungary / Sweden/Ireland 2007. 110 mins.

This quirky little thriller brings to mind Patricia Highsmith's Ripley series, where the perverted morality of the ending requires the reader to take sides with the villain. Here, a gruff pathologist (Anger) takes on the role of a contract killer only to discover he's the patsy - and now he must try to save his own skin.

 http://www.screendaily.com/the-investigator-a-nyomozo/4037534.article

Presentation:

Hungarian: Turkish Or Finnish? By dr. L.K. Marácz

The Hungarian language is classified in linguistic course books as a Finno-Ugric language. This suggests that Hungarian is genetically related to Finnish and has nothing to do with Turkish. Hungarian displays however clear affinities with Turkish. Although the Finno-Ugric hypothesis is still awaiting futher prove, this alleged relation between Finnish and Hungarian has dominated the research agenda in Hungary and has even led to the invention of a new 'national identity for Hungarians'. Dr. Marácz belongs to those resesearchers that are not convinced of the correctness of the Finno-Ugric hypothesis. He will demonstrate how due to circumstances external to linguistics like 'Europeanness' Hungarian became Finnish and not Turkish. 

Locations: DE  DOELEN , Singel 425. Amsterdam  (UvA)
Room opens 15 minutes before the begin of the presentation
Contribution: EUR 7.50 (student: EUR 5)
 

  1 & 3 December 2009

3 Nov 2009 at 20:00
Film: Bolshe Vita (film) will be followed by a discussion on the Pan-European Picnic in 1989
Location: De Doelenzaal, UvA, Amsterdam
The seminar and the film are in English or with English subtitle
 
Locations: DE  DOELEN , Singel 425. Amsterdam  (UvA)
Room opens 15 minutes before the begin of the presentation
Contribution: EUR 7.50 (student: EUR 5)
 
About the presentation:
Film Club (HFC) presents: Bolshe Vita
1989, an exciting summer. Hungary opened the borders to the West and the new waves of peoples had started. The heroes arrived from all over the world: two ditsy musicians and an engineer from Russia, two girls from England and USA and they all met in a rock café „Bolshe Vita”…
Actors among others Badár Sándor, Helen Baxendale , Igor Csernyevics , Caroline Loncq, Susan, Flores Eduardo Rózsa.  Source: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115726/

Het Magyarkávéház en het Leidse Seminar organiseren al drie jaar de kulturele evenementen in Nederland. Het eerste programma dit jaar is de film van Elemér Ragályi  “NO MERCY”

 Op 4 november in Leiden

Leiden Universiteit Plexus Studiecentrum

Kaizerstraat 25    2311 GN Leiden

Iedereen is van harte welkom vanaf 18.30

en 

Op 6 november donderdag in Den Haag

Duikers Derde Ambachtsschool

Zwaardstraat 16    2584 TX Den Haag

Iedereen is harte welkom vanaf 19.30

Entree 7.50 € studenten 5 €

De film "No mercy" is gebaseerd op waargebeurde gebeurtenissen. Elemér Ragályi`s film is een document over de zaak Pusoma, een moordonderzoek, wat niet al te lang heeft plaatsgevonden, met een tragisch einde. Zonder enig bewijs was de verdachte, de hoofdpersoon van de film,  jarenlang onschuldig opgesloten in de gevangenis. Soortgelijke situaties kunnen overal in elke maatschappij voorkomen. No Mercy is niet een fictineel drama, het is het echte leven.

Als gast hebben we de regisseur uitgenodigd vanuit Hongarije. Na de film is er de mogelijkheid om een gesprek met hem te hebben.

Wij  hopen  jullie daar graag te zien

Leiden Seminars on Hungarian Cultural and Natural Heritage in 2008-2009
 
2008 November 4 Tuesday
The Multicolours of the Hungarian Culture I. -  The Gypsies
Elemér Ragályi , film director's presentation

after the film
Nincs kegyelem (No Mercy) in the Hungarian Film Club
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2008 December 2 Tuesday
The Multicolours of the Hungarian Culture II -  Upper-Middle and Jew
The Brief History on Hungarian Fencing
in memorial György Gerevics
 after the film
Napfény ize (Sunshine) by István Szabó in the Hungarian Film Club
*****
 
2009 February 3 Tuesday
 The Multicolours of the Hungarian Culture III- Hungarian
The Hungarian Dances
 after the film
Fehér tenyér (White Palm) in the Hungarian Film Club
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 2009 March 3 Tuesday
 The Multicolours of the Hungarian Culture IV  - Upper Class, the Nobelmen
The Enlightenment in Hungary
 after the film
Lúdas Matyi  (Goose Matthias ) animation film in the Hungarian Film Club
 *****
 
2009 April 7 Tuesday
 The Multicolours of the Hungarian Culture V  - Palóc, Hungarian and Tót (Slovak)
Heritage, Architecture and Modern Art
 after the film
Csodálatos Júlia (Being Julia ) in the Hungarian Film Club
 
presentation starts at 20:30
Location: Leiden University, Plexus Studentcentrum
Address: Kaiserstraat 25, 2311 GN Leiden
Entrée: EUR 7.50 (student en 65+: EUR 5)
Leiden Seminars is together with the Hungarian Film Club.
If you attend on Leiden Seminars, the Hungarian Film Club is free and vica versa.
 
program description and more information on http://kulturhaz.blogspot.com/
 
Hungarian Film Club 
 
 Hungarian Film Club in Leiden  in 2008-2009
2008 November 4
Nincs kegyelem (No Mercy) by Elemér Ragályi

http://cineuropa.org/film.aspx?lang=ing&documentID=75691
The best director in 2008 Film Festival, nomination to Europa Award 2007
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 2008 December 2
 Napfény ize (Sunshine) by István Szabó 1999 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0145503/
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 2009 February 3
 Fehér tenyér (White Palm) by Szabolcs Hajdú 2006 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0464955/#comment
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 2009 March 3
Lúdas Matyi  (Goose Matthias ) animation film by Dargay Attila, 1997

 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0142632/
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 2009 April 7
Csodálatos Júlia (Being Julia ) by István Szabó, 2004

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0340012/
written by Ronald Harwood based on the novel of W. Somerset Maugham
 
 Film starts at 18:30
Movies are in or with subtitle in English or Dutch
 Location: Leiden University, Plexus Studentcentrum
Address: Kaiserstraat 25, 2311 GN Leiden
Entrée: EUR 7.50 (student and 65+: EUR 5)

Film : Puskás Hungary

“Puskás is apart, I think Pelé is pretty well the only one who is able to carry off his legendary status with the real grace. But Puskás was even greater than Pelé, precisely for the reason you have already alluded to: he was able to reach the peak twice over. Climb the Himalayas a second time. What for? To reach the summit twice over, that is almost incredible.”

/Tamás Almasi/