Innermost Asia
Hungarians and Mongolia (2024, 81 min)
a documentary by Zoltán Füredi
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.
TRAILER
Cultural anthropologist Zoltán Füredi’s film is both a physical and a spiritual journey. A journey into the shared past of Asia and Europe, a journey into Mongolia’s archaic, but at the same time light speed changing everyday life, and a journey to a river that is not simply a river, but the heart of Mongolia, the cradle of ancient cultures, the abode of spirits, and influencer of the director’s personal fate.
HOW FAR WOULD YOU GO TO FIND YOUR WAY TO YOURSELF?
ZOLTÁN FÜREDI 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.”
FILM STILLS
CREW
cinematographer: Gergő Somogyvári
editor: Zoltán Füredi and Károly Szalai
sound: Márton Ecsedy and József Iszlai
music: B. Bat-Orshikh – DOMOG
producer: Zoltán Füredi és Orsolya Komlósi
director: Zoltán Füredi
SUPPORTERS
Magyar Művészeti Akadémia
Nemzeti Film Intézet
Nemzeti Filmszakmai Adókedvezmény
Nemzeti Kulturális Alap
GYÁRTÓ
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