Official Selection - Competition 2001 / Chico / Hungary, Germany, Croatia, Chile 2001
Director Ibolya Fekete on her film: “Chico is an adventure film. You could even call it an ideological adventure film, but with real adventures – travel, revolutions and wars, across countries and continents. The stakes are high: what about world revolution? What should a person do who was born in Latin America, is part Hungarian, part Catholic, part Jewish, and was raised as a staunch communist? As a child he was driven to wander half the world, leaving the proximity of Che Guevara and Salvador Allende, in order to find ‘actual socialism’ – in Hungary. The result: a revolutionary sans frontiŹres. What happens to him when, from one day to the next, the world rids itself not only of the idea of communism – perhaps justifiably, in self-defence – but refuses to hear about ideology any longer. Is there an idea left he can hold onto? Once again our hero charges halfway across the world and this time ends up in war-torn Croatia. The film is a blend of actual and fictional events and people. And so neither the story nor the characters are identical to anyone or anything – only to what I invented.”
108 min / Black & white, 35 mm
Director Ibolya Fekete
/ Screenplay Ibolya Fekete
/ Dir. of Photography Nyika Jancsó, Mátyás Erdély, Antonio Farias
/ Editor Anna Kornis
/ Producer Sándor Simó(Hunnia Studio-Hungary), Hans Kutnewsky(ZDF-ARTE-Germany), Damir Terešak(Maxima Film-HTV-Croatia),J.J.Harting(Roos Film-Chile)
/ Production Hunnia Studio-Hungary, ZDF-ARTE-Germany, Maxima Film-HTV-Croatia, Roos Film-Chile
/ Cast Eduardo Rózsa Flores,Sergio Hernandez, Richie Varga, Gyula Bodrogi
Ibolya Fekete (b. 1951), screenwriter and director, has worked with Hunnio Studios where among other things, she co-wrote the scripts for György Szomjas. Filmography: From Berlin to Berlin (1990, Berlinből Berlinbe, documentary), Children of the Apocalypse I-II (1992, Az Apokalipszis gyermekei I-II, documentary), Bolse Vita (1996).
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