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This exceptionally fine Hungarian film about death and renewal is made with a sort of serene melancholy, a rich understanding of the tone and textures of mortality. It is a quiet movie, of short focus but great perspective in its untroubled contemplation of the measure of loss...
That sort of fancy is based on the knowledge that Solti is a native of Hungary, the land of Magyars. He comes from a family of bakers who had lived in the small Hungarian village of Balatönfokájar since the 16th century. His father Mores left the village in search of opportunities in the grain business and then real estate ("both with very little success," his son recalls); he set himself up in Budapest, where Gyuri (the diminutive of the Hungarian version of George) Solti was born...
Solti did not go. In fact, it quickly became clear that he was not quite the ogre his Germanic brusqueness suggested. The musicians soon realized his remarkable talents and total dedication. They fondly began collecting "Solti-isms" that result from his frenzied blend of Hungarian, German and English. Examples: "Dis is it as ve vould never did it." To signify that the chorus was a bit muddy: "Here we have ze svimming." Running up to compliment a stand-in singer on his performance, he cried: "Congratulations, I thought it would be twice...
Across the border in South Viet Nam, government troops continued to battle North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces in actions scattered across the country. Canadian and Indonesian truce officials, thwarted by both sides as well as by their Hungarian and Polish colleagues, were hinting at quitting the ineffective International Commission of Control and Supervision-a move that would all but destroy the unit. For Cambodia, Laos and South Viet Nam, peace seemed no nearer at hand than it did a year...
...Paris accord insists that all official ICCS reports be unanimous, but the Polish and Hungarian observers on the commission are not always in the mood for unanimity. When a boat steaming along the delta was hit by a Viet Cong rocket, the Polish delegate reported that "it is possible that during a low tide the boat had seated itself on the explosive device lying on the bottom of a canal, thus causing the boat to sink...