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Hungarian Éva Fahidi was 18 when she and her family were deported to Auschwitz in 1944. She was separated from her family and learned after the war that all of her 49 blood relatives had been murdered, including her parents and sister. Director and dancer Réka Szabó became fascinated by Fahidi’s life story, documented in her book The Soul of Things. She reached out to the elderly Fahidi to ask if she would like to dance in a piece about her life, together with acclaimed young dancer Emese Cuhorka. Szabó filmed the whole process, from the first meeting between the two main characters, through the development of the piece during exhausting rehearsals, to the first performance of Sea Lavender or The Euphoria of Being. The documentary also follows the blossoming of an intimate friendship between the three women. Slowly, Fahidi’s memories come alive. After a long life, she has accepted that she will always carry her trauma with her.
Réka Szabó is born in 1969 in Budapest. She graduated in mathematics and informatics, but fell in love with contemporary dance. Szabó is artistic director of The Symptoms, one of the most significant contemporary dance theatre companies in Hungary. She directed two award-winning experimental short films (Mourning, Shadow Movie) before her feature debut The Euphoria of Being (2019).
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A létezés eufóriája
Hungary
2019, 87'
Directed by:
Réka Szabó
Screenplay by:
Réka Szabó
Cinematography:
Claudia Kovács
Edited by:
Sylvie Gadmer, Péter Sass
Music:
Balázs Barna
Producers:
Sara László, Marcell Gero, Réka Szabó
Produced by:
Campfilm, The Symptoms, 4CUT Digital Workshop Ltd., Pom’Zed
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