The ELTE–NFI University Film Club continues the series of screenings and discussions. We welcome university citizens from all faculties of ELTE.

Today, we remember Ignác Semmelweis as a legend, a man of courage and steadfastness, a man of both knowledge and justice. He is not known as the saviour of mothers for nothing. But in his own time he was seen in a very different light. The other Hungarian doctors he worked with in the obstetrics clinic in Vienna thought he was mad: he was not interested in the pleasures of the imperial city, he was just doing his job. The Austrian doctors thought him unbearably violent: he had only one goal in mind, the health of the mothers entrusted to him; and for the sake of this sacred cause he broke every rule and every barrier.

And for his boss, the head of the clinic, he was the living, unpleasant conscience: for if Doctor Semmelweis's theory was true, and the obstetricians were spreading the disease that had killed so many women, they were all murderers.

He had a midwife working alongside him, who saw in him what no one else did: a man who wanted love and reassurance. The film focuses on the year 1847, when a mysterious epidemic decimates the women giving birth in a clinic in Vienna. Doctor Ignác Semmelweis, defying all conventional theories, tries to conquer puerperal fever.

Date: 9 April 2025, 18.00

Venue: University Square campus (1053 Budapest, Egyetem tér 1-3. fszt., corridor next to the cloakroom)

Preview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dlgcc2bhj2o

Starring Miklós H. Vecsei, Katica Nagy, László Gálffi.

Guests of the post-screening discussion will be Lajos Koltai, Hungarian cinematographer and director, winner of the Kossuth and Béla Balázs awards, Balázs Maruszki, screenwriter of the film, Benedek Varga, director of the Semmelweis Medical History Museum, Library and Repository of the MNM. The institution also provided the location for several scenes of the film. Also Prof. Dr. Nándor Ács, obstetrician-gynecologist, director of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology II at Semmelweis University.

Due to the limited number of seats, pre-registration is possible at the following link:

https://ajk.elte.hu/content/semmelweis-koltai-lajos-filmje-2023.e.1849

Correspondence about the film club is welcome via eltenfi.filmklub@elte.hu.

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The ELTE–NFI University Film Club continues the series of screenings and discussions. We welcome university citizens from all faculties of ELTE to the University Library and Archives.

Szilárd Bernáth's powerful directorial debut is a socially sensitive film that appeals to young people, with a shockingly authentic performance by Benett Vilmányi and Szabolcs Thuróczy.

21-year-old Ádám is a loner, a boy from Borsod, working as a shepherd, who is ashamed of his stutter. He lives in a tense, yet intimate coldness with his once violent, now tamed father, who has found refuge in religion. Adam is unable to find his place until he realises that he can express himself without stuttering through rap music, under the stage name Larry, and face his frustrations of helplessness. His rage-fuelled lyrics get the attention of local youths, and he gains an unexpected level of popularity online. A national talent show could be her breakthrough, but when she comes face to face with people, her speech falters again. He cannot perform live until he overcomes his inner limitations and takes control of his own life.

Cast: Szabolcs Thuróczy, Benett Vilmányi, Anna Szandtner, Levente Orbán, László Onofer, Álmos Előd, Gellért Csiki, Alexandra Borbély, Éva Bandor.

Date: 2 April 2025, 18.00

Venue: ELTE University Library and Archives (1053 Budapest, Ferenciek tere 6, community space from the lobby, ground floor)

In the post-screening discussion, our guests are: screenwriter and director Szilárd Bernáth, producer Veronika Gaszner. Róza Emilia Barna and Ágnes Patakfalvi-Czirják, lecturers at the Department of Sociology and Communication, Budapest University of Technology and Economics.

Due to the limited number of seats, pre-registration is possible at the following link:

https://www.ajk.elte.hu/content/larry-bernath-szilard-filmje-2022.e.1847

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Oxford University Press has offered trial access to the following databases, which will be available until the end of May 2025, either directly on campus or remotely via a VPN service.

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The databases opened as part of the trial access are:

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The ELTE–NFI University Film Club continues the series of screenings and discussions. We welcome university citizens from all faculties of ELTE to the University Library and Archives.

The editor of the film, based on a screenplay by Attila Hartung and Yvonne Kerékgyártó, received the Hungarian Film Prize 2020.

FOMO brings us into the world of young people with a verve we have never seen before from a Hungarian film. The only A-category international film festival in Northern Europe in Tallinn, the prestigious Cottbus Film Festival in Germany and the V4 Film Days in Kiev have invited it to their programmes in 2019.

„The film team also captures what one can easily feel today, empowered by modern technology, the internet and smartphones to do practically anything. In FOMO, I also felt it was important to show how parents and children can get along these days. I would be delighted if, in addition to the primary teenage audience, parents with teenage children could watch the film and start a dialogue at home.” – said director Attila Hartung about the film.

Date: 26 March 2025, 18.00

Venue: ELTE University Library and Archives (1053 Budapest, Ferenciek tere 6, community space from the lobby, ground floor)

Starring Yorgos Goletsas, Panna László, Gergely Bouquet, Ábel Pokorni, András Sipőcz, András Stohl, Adrienn Herczeg.

In the post-screening discussion, our guest will be Panna László and Bouquet Gergey, the actors of the film, and Gergő Villányi, a psychological counsellor who also deals with the difficulties caused by the digital world.

Due to the limited number of seats, pre-registration is possible at the following link:

https://www.ajk.elte.hu/content/fomo-megosztod-es-uralkodsz-hartung-attila-filmje-2019.e.1843

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The Hungarian Academy of Sciences will celebrate its 200th anniversary in 2025. Among its members are many distinguished students and teachers who have left their mark not only on the Academy but also on the history of our institution. Tivadar Pauler (1816-1886) lawyer, university professor, minister was a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences from 1858.

Tivadar Pauler completed his university studies at the Faculty of Law of the University of Pest in 1836. He began his teaching career at the Law Academies of Zagreb and Győr, and from August 1848 he taught at the University of Pest, where he was appointed full professor of the law of reason and criminal law in 1852. He served two terms as Dean of the Faculty of Law, and in 1861/62 he was Rector of the University. After the death of József Eötvös, he was Minister of Religion and Public Education from 10 Februrary 1871 to 4 September 1872. During his tenure, he approved, among other things, the foundation of the Teacher Training Institute, the predecessor of the present-day ELTE Trefort Ágoston Practical High School. He began his academic career in 1841, publishing nearly a hundred papers on public law, legal philosophy, constitutional history and criminal law. In 1880, on the centenary of the university’s move to Buda, he started to write the history of the university, but in the end he could only complete the first volume. He died in 1886, and his rich collection of documents is now in the manuscript archives of the ELTE University Library and Archives.

The ELTE–NFI University Film Club continues the series of screenings and discussions. We welcome university citizens from all faculties of ELTE.

The Devil Beats His Wife is a social satire criticizing the soft dictatorship of the Kádár era, which also holds up a mirror to the familiar situations of everyday family life. The story vividly portrays the world of "gulyáskommunismus" (goulash communism), which offered relative prosperity, while at the same time lifting the veil on the structural problems that lurk deep below. Jolán Kajtár invites her boss and his family to spend August 20 with her relatives in the countryside. Géza Vetró, a strict and work-obsessed party functionary, arrives with his wife and daughter in the Balaton highlands, hoping to relax for a few hours in the fresh air. The Kajtárs do their best to ensure that their influential guests are not lacking in anything, but at the same time they try to make the meeting an advantage for themselves.

The film was a great success at home and abroad. Among other prizes, the film was awarded the top prize at the 1978 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival and the Hyères Humour Prize. In style and subject matter, it forms a transition between two characteristic trends in Hungarian film history, the generational public sentiment films of the 1970s and the grotesque satires of the 1980s. While the documentary tradition is strongly influenced by the small-scale realism of the depiction of situations, there are also elements of the grotesque, which point out seemingly insoluble contradictions with the double-edged weapon of humour.

Date: 19 March 2025, 18.00

Venue: University Square campus (1053 Budapest, Egyetem tér 1-3. fszt., corridor next to the cloakroom)

Preview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hX2KfXdNpw

Starring Ildikó Pécsi, Erzsi Pásztor, Lajos Szabó, Anatol Constantin.

In the post-screening discussion, our guest will be Erzsi Pásztor, Kossuth, Jászai Mari and Béla Balázs Award-winning Hungarian actress, a merited artist, one of the main characters of the film.

Due to the limited number of seats, pre-registration is possible at the following link:

https://www.ajk.elte.hu/content/veri-az-ordog-a-feleseget-andras-ferenc-filmje-1977.e.1839

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