
Theatre
Musical drama by Benedek Darvas and Béla Pintér
Béla Pintér & Company / Ungarian National Theatre Budapest
German premiere

Roncsolt Kópia (Scratched Celluloid) © Ottó Kaiser
A highly stylized “soldiers’ opera” that evokes the atmosphere of a pre-war black-and-white film (the title is “Scratched Celluloid”) and which uses several individual fates and their personal tragedies to examine a dark chapter in Hungary’s history: its pact with Nazi Germany against a backdrop of home-grown nationalism and anti-Semitism, and its part in the Russian campaign of 1942 that ended with the death of hundreds of thousands of Hungarian soldiers in the Russian winter.
Directed by Béla Pintér
Music Benedek Darvas
Set Design Péter Horgas
Costume Design Mari Benedek
With
Éva Csatári, Éva Enyedi, Sarolta Nagy-Abonyi, Tünde Szalontay, Sándor Bencze, Tamás Deák, Béla Pintér, László Quitt, József Szarvas, Szabolcs Thuróczy, József Tóth
Musicians
Antal Kéménczy, Bertalan Veér, Gábor Pelva, László Nyíri, István Kerti, Géza Román, Mátyás Veér, György Póta
Conductor Pál Bencsik
With the support of the Ministery for Cultural Heritage, Budapest, NKA – National Cultural Fund, the city of Budapest and the Budapest Autumn Festival
This production is nominated for the Werkpreis spielzeiteuropa 04/05.