Overture (1965 film)

1965 film

Overture

Written by| János Vadász
Cinematography| János Vadász

Release date

* 1965 (1965)

Country| Hungary
Languages| Hungarian (title cards only; no dialogue)

Overture (Hungarian: Nyitány) is a 1965 Hungarian short documentary film written by János Vadász. It won the Short Film Palme d'Or at the 1965 Cannes Film Festival[1] and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.[2][3]

## Synopsis

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After the opening title card, a white blur in the center of a black screen resolves to the shape of a chicken egg. We penetrate the shell, and watch, in time-lapse, the 21-day development of a chicken embryo, from a germ spot on the yolk to the emergence of the baby chick, compressed into under eight minutes, set to Beethoven's Egmont Overture.

## Cultural influences

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Film uses complete Beethoven's Ouverture to Egmont as soundtrack for image series featuring hatching bird, referencing rebellious nature of Egmont fighting for freedom despite all barriers. Beethoven's Egmont is a set of incidental music pieces for the 1787 play of the same name by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The film, nominated for Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject) is described as "among the most ingenious pairings of music and image in the history of the festival."[4]

## References

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1. ^ "Festival de Cannes: Overture". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 7 March 2009.
2. ^ "NY Times: Overture". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times. 2009. Archived from the original on 2 November 2009. Retrieved 29 November 2008.
3. ^ "The 38th Academy Awards (1966) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. Archived from the original on 11 January 2015. Retrieved 19 May 2019.
4. ^ "News - Entertainment, Music, Movies, Celebrity". MTV News. Archived from the original on 2 July 2019. Retrieved 2 July 2019.

## External links

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* Overture at IMDb

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Short Film Palme d'Or winners

1950s|

* White Mane – Albert Lamorisse (1953)
* Blinkity Blank – Norman McLaren (1955)
* The Red Balloon – Albert Lamorisse (1956)
* Courte Histoire – Ion Popescu-Gopo (1957)
* N.Y., N.Y. – Francis Thompson (1959)
* Zmiana warty – Halina Bielinska & Włodzimierz Haupe (1959)

1960s|

* La Petite cuillère – Carlos Vilardebo (1961)
* La Rivière du hibou – Robert Enrico (1961)
* À fleur d'eau – Alexander J. Seiler & Rob Gnant (1963)
* Le Haricot – Edmond Séchan (1963)
* La douceur du village – François Reichenbach (1964)
* The Price of Victory – Nobuko Shibuya (1964)
* Nyitany – János Vadász (1965)
* Skaterdater – Noel Black (1966)
* Sky Over Holland – John Fernhout (1967)
* Cîntecele Renasterii – Mirel Iliesiu (1969)

1970s|

* The Magic Machines – Bob Curtis (1970)
* Le Fusil à lunette – Jean Chapot (1972)
* Balablok – Bretislav Pojar (1973)
* Ostrov – Fyodor Khitruk, Eduard Nazarov & Vladimir Zuykov (1974)
* Lautrec – Geoff Dunbar (1975)
* Metamorphosis – Barry Greenwald (1976)
* The Struggle – Marcell Jankovics (1977)
* Rowing Across the Atlantic – Jean-François Laguionie (1978)
* Harpya – Raoul Servais (1979)

1980s|

* Seaside Woman – Oscar Grillo (1980)
* Moto perpetuo – Béla Vajda (1981)
* Merlin ou le cours de l'or – Arthur Joffé (1982)
* Je sais que j'ai tort mais demandez à mes copains ils disent la même chose – Pierre Levy (1983)
* Le Cheval de fer – Gérald Frydman & Pierre Levie (1984)
* Chiri – David Takaichvili (1984)
* Jenitba – Slav Bakalov & Rumen Petkov (1985)
* An Exercise in Discipline - Peel – Jane Campion (1986)
* Palisade – Laurie McInnes (1987)
* Vykrutasy – Garry Bardin (1988)
* 50 ans – Gilles Carle (1989)

1990s|

* The Lunch Date – Adam Davidson (1990)
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* Omnibus – Sam Karmann (1992)
* Coffee and Cigarettes: Somewhere in California – Jim Jarmusch (1993)
* El héroe– Carlos Carrera (1994)
* Gagarin – Alexij Kharitidi (1995)
* Szél – Marcell Iványi (1996)
* ...Is It the Design on the Wrapper? – Tessa Sheridan (1997)
* L'Interview – Xavier Giannoli (1998)
* When the Day Breaks – Wendy Tilby & Amanda Forbis (1999)

2000s|

* Anino – Raymond Red (2000)
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* Esö után – Péter Mészáros (2002)
* Cracker Bag – Glendyn Ivin (2003)
* Trafic – Cătălin Mitulescu (2004)
* Podorozhni – Igor Strembitsky (2005)
* Sniffer – Bobbie Peers (2006)
* Ver Llover – Elisa Miller (2007)
* Megatron – Marian Crisan (2008)
* Arena – João Salaviza (2009)

2010s|

* Barking Island – Serge Avédikian (2010)
* Cross – Maryna Vroda (2011)
* Sessiz-Be Deng – Rezan Yeşilbaş (2012)
* Safe – Byoung-gon Moon (2013)
* Leidi – Simón Mesa Soto (2014)
* Waves '98 – Ely Dagher (2015)
* Timecode – Juanjo Giménez (2016)
* A Gentle Night \- Qiu Yang (2017)
* All These Creatures – Charles Williams (2018)
* The Distance Between Us and the Sky – Vasilis Kekatos (2019)

2020s|

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* 27 – Flóra Anna Buda (2023)
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