Innermost Asia – Hungarians and Mongolia

Innermost Asia – Hungarians and Mongolia

A legbelsőbb Ázsia - Magyarok nyomában Mongolországban / 2024 / Hungary / 81 min

How far would you go to find your way to yourself?

Zoltán Füredi's personal road movie to Mongolia to shed light on the origins of the strange sense of kinship between Hungarians and Mongolians and to change his own destiny. During his journey, he meets, among others, Huns, Red soldiers, Angelika the ham cook, a chicken paprikash on the Danube bank in Ulaanbaatar, a baby calf and the spirit of the Orkhon River.

Director:
Zoltán Füredi is a cultural anthropologist, filmmaker and orientalist. His films deal with questions of rituals, identity and ethos. He has been researching in Mongolia since 1992.

Director’s statement:
"It is said that you cannot choose your relatives. Well, I chose them. The Mongols are perhaps the last of the true horse nomads. Warriors, sons of the steppe. But they're also thoroughly romantic and hospitable. They are associated with ideals that are very important to me: friendship and loyalty, a spirit of adventure, freedom and a love of nature. At least that is what I see in them. So I am a bit Mongolian at heart. I see the world through both Hungarian and Mongolian eyes."

Director:
FÜREDI Zoltán

Biography:
The director was born in 1968 in Budapest, Hungary.

Producer:
FÜREDI Zoltán, KOMLÓSI Orsolya

Cinematographer:
SOMOGYVÁRI Gergő

Film editor:
FÜREDI Zoltán, SZALAI Károly

      Kapcsolódó program:
      Cineversity 2024 (Outdoor screening)