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L’ Amor Fati – Acte 1

Sophie Kotanyi
1996 Belgium; Germany 78 minutes German; Hungarian

My mother says that I was born because Stalin had died. After his death, life could become only better. I was three and a half years old when we left Hungary. I don’t have any memories of that time. My memories start in Brussels. My parents were members of a circle of intellectuals and moderns artists, who were grouped around three Hungarians philosophers: during the era of Stalinism, they could carry on their religious and philosophical investigations only in a close private circle, using debates about mathematics as a code medium. Forty years after our flight, we visit Hungary with my mother, father, sister and brother, seeking the traces of our life before and during the revolution.’ (Sophie Kotanyi)

Production :
WDR; Floh film; CBA / Centre de l'Audiovisuel à Bruxelles
Editing :
Sophie Kotanyi; Eva Houdova
Sound :
Maria Bodmeri
Photography :
Julia Kundert; Tibor Somogy; Tibor Kopfler

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