"Homeless essay" , short portrait documentary of Lászlo Végel

In 2009, Eszter Hajdú completed a short film portrait of László Végel, a prize-winning ethnic Hungarian writer from the multi-ethnic town of Novi Sad (Újvidék), Serbia, just over the border from Hungary. Eszter spends the day taking a walk through the writer's hometown. They visit his favorite places, such as the farmer's market; they take a look at where he used to work, the bombed-out building of the Novi Sad television station. Together, they travel to Temerin, a village where Vegel was in hiding, branded as an "enemy” by the Milosevic regime. Vegel was variously labeled "American spy”, "Hungarian ultra-nationalist”, "homeless bastard” by those who could not understand, or could not accept, this individual's commitment to personal liberty and to his European identity.

director:

Eszter Hajdú

camera:

István Szőnyi

editor:

Gergely Roszik

music:

MS3 (Sandor Mester)

producer:

University of Drama, Film and Television, Budapest