Simon the Magician 

Simon mágus

Paris. A crime. No lead. No clues for the police. They are forced to turn to a visionary for help. He comes from the East and calls himself Simon. When he arrives, people gather around him. They all expect a miracle: paparazzi, a disciple and an old rival, another magus. Each scene hides some miracles and each shot is a surprise in this film that plays with the audience’s expectations, until it finally exceeds them.
Screening Schedule

No physical screenings scheduled.


Direction: Ildikó Enyedi
Script: Ildikó Enyedi
Cinematography: Tibor Máthé
Editing: Mária Rigó
Sound: István Sipos
Music: Béla Bartók, Brian Eno, Ludwig van Beethoven
Actors: Julie Delarme, Péter Halász, Hubert Kunde, Péter Andorai, Mari Nagy
Production: Athéna Films, Eurofilm Studio, Artcam International, Hungarian Television, Három Nyúl Studio, Budapest Film Studio
Producers: Ildikó Enyedi, Jolán Árvai, Joël Farges, Péter Miskolczi, Elise Jalladeau
Costumes: Claire Fraϊssé
Sets: Danka Semenowicz
Format: DCP
Color: Color
Production Country: Hungary, France
Production Year: 1999
Duration: 92΄
Awards/Distinctions: FICC Special Prize – Locarno International Film Festival 1999, Switzerland Tromsø International Film Festival , 2000:  Aurora Prize, Best Actor: Péter Andorai – Arcachon Women Directors FF 1999, Fran

Ildikó Enyedi

Ildikó Enyedi has started her career as a concept and media artist. She was a member of the art group Indigo and the Balázs Béla Studio, the only independent film studio in Eastern Europe before 1989. She later turned to feature film directing and script writing, wrote and directed five features and several shorts. With these works she’s won more than forty international prizes. Her film My 20th Century was chosen as one of the 12 Best Hungarian Films of All Time and selected among the 10 best films of the year by The New York Times. In addition to prizes awarded to her as a filmmaker, she has also received recognition as a script writer (as winner of the Grand Prize of the Hartley Merrill International Screenwriting Prize for best European Script). She lectures at European master classes (Switzerland, Poland) and teaches at the University of Film and Theatrical Arts in Budapest. She worked in Berlin in the frames of the Artist in Residence program of the DAAD. She was founding member of EUCROMA, the European Cross Media Academy. In 2011 she defended her DLA paper “Summa cum Laude” in the field of Transmedia (Created Worlds / The Relationship of Technique and Fantasy in Moving images). Member of the European Film Academy. She was awarded the Balázs Béla and the Merited Artist Prizes, and has received the Republic President’s Order of Merit Cross. A mother of two, she lives in Budapest and Nordrhein Westfalen, German.

Filmography

1981 Flort
1981 Rόzsalovag
1982 ’j konyvek
1985 A nezo
1986 Vakond
1989 Az en XX. szazadom | My Twentieth Century
1991 Teli hadjπrat
1994 Buvos vadπsz | Magic Hunter |
1997 Tamas et Juli | Tamas and Juli
1999 Simon Magus | Simon the Magician
2017 Teströl és lélekröl | On Body and Soul