Cinema
My Brother Is Coming
Jön az öcsém
Michael Curtiz · 1919
Synopsis
A working-class family awaits the return of the younger brother, a soldier of the Great War who was wounded and then taken prisoner. In his cell, the revolutionary slogan reaches him; he escapes and comes home a convinced militant. Silhouettes against the light, unfurled flags, marching crowds: the film puts into images, shot after shot, a propaganda poem written a few days earlier.
Context
The film was released on 3 April 1919, under the Republic of Councils, after a poem by Antal Farkas published in the Népszava on 26 March; Oszkár Beregi plays the brother, and Lucy Doraine, then the director's wife, the woman. It is the last Hungarian film by its author, and the only one of them to have reached us complete: banned after the fall of the regime, it survived in closed reserves, its prints having been seized by the police. The national film archives restored it in 1999.
Who it is for
A silent short film of about ten minutes, whose interest lies mainly in the moment when it was made; no French release has been located.
Prizes and reception
A propaganda film of the revolutionary government of 1919, signed by the future director of Casablanca, Michael Curtiz.
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