PROCESSION

2022 – …

film and TV mini-series

script / producer: Péter Kalmár

Arthur Schnitzler wrote his most famous play "La Ronde", It was considered “pornographic” by the critics of the time. The Berlin premiere was initially blocked by the censors - and it was a resounding success. Since then, the play has been adapted several times, including musicals and film and television adaptations.

This time, a new screenplay, PROCESSION (KÖRMENET ) written by Peter Kalmar, uses current social and societal conditions in Hungary. Replacing the biblical “Ten Commandments”, there are ten "Tinder" scenes: virtual relationships, bleak pleasures, hasty marriages, spiritual deviancy, hypocrisy, perverse homophobia, lustful revenge - and in the background, preparations for a dictatorial government takeover in right-wing populist Hungary in 2025.

A video report by the 24-hu portal, published in 2022, summarises the aims of the film and its creators, and discusses the topicality of the subject. (In recent years, due to the failure of funding, most of the film's creators have changed.)