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Beszélgetés az idén Kossuth-díjra érdemesített Szomjas György filmrendezővel
- Issue: 2005/2
- Starting page: 16
- Author: K. Tóth László
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Conversation with Szomjas György– film director – 2005 recipient of Kossuth Award.
Szomjas has been making films about popular culture for 30 years. Some of his films have become cult films. Much of his work has dealt with Budapest city-folk life; from rock music to tavern folklore to the Budapest dance houses. He also made a series of documentaries on village musicians – the masters that the dance house musicians and singers have learned from. „...(In Hungary) something is either „popular” or „culture".....the practice is, if we consider culture to be of quality, then it doesn’t often coincide with the „popular".... What has interested me is how popular culture can be developed.....Hungarian traditional music is not a museum object but a usable culture which has certainly proved to be appropriate entertainment and inspired interest in life for the city youth....” Interview by K.Tóth László