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Source: hungarianconservative.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

On the anniversary of the 1956 revolution and freedom fight of Hungary, the world premiere of the film telling the life of Ign\u00e1c Semmelweis, a 19th century Hungarian physician and scientist, an early pioneer of antiseptic procedures was held on Monday, 23 October in New York. At the event, organized by the National Film Institute (NFI) and the Liszt Institute in New York, Minister of Culture and Innovation J\u00e1nos Cs\u00e1k, Csaba K\u00e1el, the government commissioner responsible for the development of the Hungarian film industry and President of the NFI,\u00a0director Lajos Koltai<\/a>, producer Tam\u00e1s Lajos, leading actor Mikl\u00f3s H. Vecsei, and Director of the Liszt Institute Csenge Palotai were all present.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Tam\u00e1s Lajos, Csenge Palotai, Lajos Koltai, Csaba K\u00e1el and Mikl\u00f3s H. Vecsei at the screening in New York on 24 October 2023 (L-R). PHOTO: NFI\/MTI<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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The premiere was attended by ambassadors of more than twenty countries. Special guests of the evening were Courtenay Rattray, Chief of Staff of UN Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres and Stewart Simonson, Deputy Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO).<\/p>\n

The romantic period biopic created with the support of the NFI and produced by Szupermodern Filmst\u00fadi\u00f3 explores the life and work of Ign\u00e1c Semmelweis, a devoted Hungarian physician and scientist, who, defying traditional theories, strove to overcome one of the most devastating diseases of the 19th century, puerperal fever. The film shows him in 1847 and evokes the atmosphere of mid-19th-century Vienna, the life-or-death tragedies of the hospital at the time, the irreconcilable, entrenched conflicts between Austrian and Hungarian doctors, and the agonizing desire for love between a doctor and a nurse, a relationship socially unacceptable in those times.<\/p>\n

Before the screening, J\u00e1nos Cs\u00e1k explained that Hungarians currently celebrate several heroes: not only the 56ers, but also the famous poet S\u00e1ndor Pet\u0151fi who was born 200 years ago, as well as the the well-known writer Imre Mad\u00e1ch, whose main drama,\u00a0The Tragedy of Man<\/em>\u00a0was selected by\u00a0The Economist<\/em>\u00a0as the best ever written parabole on human progress, matching Goethe’s\u00a0Faust,<\/em>\u00a0Milton’s\u00a0Paradise Lost<\/em>\u00a0and Dante’s\u00a0Divina Commedia<\/em>. John von Neuman, the Hungarian father of the computer, was also born 120 years ago. \u2018Culture in my understanding is not only pictures and music, but our way of life, our way of thinking, therefore it includes art, science and also sports. Talking about science, this year we celebrated two Hungarian Nobel Prize winners, too: one in medicine and one physics,\u2019 the minister stated, who emphasized that Ign\u00e1c Semmelweis’s journey is an example to follow, since\u2014despite the malice and attacks from his Austrian superiors and colleagues\u2014he carried out his vision and became the \u2018saviour of mothers\u2019.<\/p>\n

He saved the lives of millions of people, just as Nobel laureate Katalin Karik\u00f3 did, J\u00e1nos Cs\u00e1k stressed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The minister then reminded: \u2018100 years later, in Szeged, a city in the south of Hungary, there lived a gentlemen called Albert Szentgy\u00f6rgyi, who got the Noble prize in 1937 for discovering Vitamin C. I see a direct connection from Semmelweis through Szentgy\u00f6rgyi to Karik\u00f3, who researched in the very same institution where Szentgy\u00f6rgyi used to work\u2019. Hungary is a small country and nation, we are about ten million within the country\u2019s borders and 15 million around the globe, but we punch above our weight; and what is common in all great Hungarians is that they always work to preserve culture and safe lives. Hungarians are proud of that and this is the reason why the government invests a lot in the education system, Mr Cs\u00e1k concluded his speech.<\/p>\n

Csaba K\u00e1el first referred to the fact that the Motion Picture Museum, which hosts the premiere, is located next to the legendary Kaufmann Studios, built by Adolf Zukor, founder of Paramount Pictures, who was born and raised in Hungary. He would be very proud if he saw that there is a Hungarian film screening in New York, the commissioner said. \u2018Films, music and arts are very much rooted in the Hungarian DNA, as they are in that of the Americans.’ Mr K\u00e1el recalled that many famous Hungarians became household names in the US, through hard work and artistic talent. The talent, the secret ingredient has an origin in a creative, inventive nation: Hungary.\u2019 In K\u00e1\u00e9l’s opinion Budapest, often referred to as a regional cultural metropolis, and New York, \u2018its twin city, an undoubtedly true metropolis, share more in common than we may think: both cities are vibrant, dynamic, and are hubs for creativity. In the heart of Europe,<\/p>\n

Budapest is shaped by a blend of influences, especially in its architecture which filmmakers from around the globe find irresistible\u2019.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Csaba K\u00e1el delivering his remarks at the world premiere of Semmelweis in New York on 24 October 2023. PHOTO: NFI\/MTI<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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He also emphasized that in recent years, Hungary has hosted landmark productions that have established Budapest as the second biggest film hub in Europe after London. The list of international blockbusters and critically acclaimed films shot in Hungary continues to grow and Hungary has shown itself as a versatile, captivating background for cinematic storytelling, K\u00e1el stated. Reflecting on the strategic vision of the NFI, he explained that it is dedicated not only to supporting creative talent of Hungarian films and preserving film heritage, but also to properly investing into a promising future. \u2018We are committed in supporting and nurturing local talent and fostering impact for international collaborations. A nation’s rich heritage provides filmmakers with a wealth of storytelling and possibilities ready to be turned into screenplays.\u2019<\/p>\n

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A werk photo of Semmelweis, with Lajos Koltai (center) instructing the cast and the crew. PHOTO: Attila Szvacsek\/NFI<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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He emphasized that\u00a0Semmelweis<\/a><\/em>\u00a0is but one example of these talent stories, an excellent opportunity to present a Hungarian talent worldwide and tell his story; and there is a great deal of international interest in the film, which is further enhanced by the fact that in recent weeks Hungary could celebrate two Hungarian Nobel Prizes. \u2018If you think about it,<\/p>\n

Semmelweis’s discovery was of such importance at his own time that it would have been worth of a Nobel Prize if this recognition had already existed then,\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Csaba K\u00e1el concluded his speech.<\/p>\n

As Csenge Palotai mentioned, the film was shown on 23 October, a Hungarian national holiday, as it commemorates Ign\u00e1c Semmelweis’s unbroken faith and life of struggle, who was a hero like the Hungarian freedom fighters in 1956. His story is of great importance not only in Hungary, but throughout the world and it is a great opportunity that it can be shown overseas, Lajos Tam\u00e1s stated. The representative of WHO called the film an important opportunity to bring the figure closer to a wider audience and to explain how fundamental his work was in holistic medicine. As Mikl\u00f3s H. Vecsei previously emphasized, in the case of historical films, it is important that not only the positive character traits of the heroes be illustrated. Semmelweis was not a saint but a fallible human in search for his truth, who believed that his profession was more important than his personal life.<\/p>\n

Ign\u00e1c Semmelweis was the very first doctor who realized that the deadly childbed fever was caused actually by the doctors themselves, who also made autopsies while helping women to deliver their babies in the same institution and were totally unaware of themselves spreading the infection they got from the corpses. In the film version of his life, the doctors, who desperately try to realize what they are doing wrong, have to fight against the leadership of the Austrian hospital, who do everything to protect their authority from the consequences of the discoveries of the \u2018obsessed Hungarian doctor\u2019. The Austrian colleagues consider Semmelweis unbearably violent, interested only in the \u2018saint cause\u2019 of the health of the mothers’. Dr Kein, the director of the hospital\u2014for whom Semmelweis is the unpleasant, living conscience: if his theory is right, all the doctors were murderers\u2014even tries to set the Hungarian physicians by the ears. He suspends them collectively when they stand up for their colleague who had been suspended because of insisting that before entering the department all doctors should wash their hands with chlorinated water\u2014the only chemical that makes the smell of corpses (and thus infection) disappear.<\/p>\n

Although even his Hungarian colleagues do not really understand Semmelweis and consider him crazy (or at least weird, not enjoying the joys of Vienna life, but living only for his work), they at least try to support him by protecting him from the consequences of his hot-tempered behaviour and occasional violations. However, the only one who truly believes in him is a young nurse, Emma Hoffman, who helps him in his devoted work, desperate overnight research, while reciprocating the doctor’s tender emotions. However, she is blackmailed by a careerist Austrian doctor who aims to be the next director of the hospital and therefore tries to put mean obstacles in Semmelweis’s way even by putting mothers’ (and babies’) lives in danger. After three weeks of experiments qualified unsuccessful by the leadership, Semmelweis finds himself before a professional court, being accused of several instances of professional misconduct and called a charlatan. However, with Emma’s help, the truth finally transpires, his reputation is restored, and he ultimately becomes known as the \u2018saviour of mothers\u2019. After the trial, he is even offered the leadership of the obstetrics department in Vienna which he refuses, and moves back to Hungary.<\/p>\n

Semmelweis<\/em>\u00a0is the story of a professional freedom fight and a socially unacceptable love, beautifully photographed by Andr\u00e1s Nagy. Mikl\u00f3s H. Vecsei’s performance is extremely convincing: he renders the figure of the \u2018obsessed Hungarian doctor\u2019 masterfully. The only surprise is the female protagonist, played by Katica Nagy, who wins not only the doctor’s but also the viewers’ hearts\u2014and not through her beauty, but her braveness and devotion to her profession. Most of the minor characters are played by actors who are \u2018big names\u2019 in the Hungarian theatrical scence, such as L\u00e1szl\u00f3 G\u00e1lffi, Korn\u00e9l Simon and Nelli Sz\u0171cs.<\/p>\n

The dramaturge of the film is Krisztina Goda, acclaimed Hungarian screenwriter, dramaturge and director, most well-known for her film dedicated to the 1956 revolution\u00a0Szabads\u00e1g, szerelem<\/em>\u00a0(Children of Glory<\/em>).\u00a0Semmelweis<\/em>\u00a0is also being screened today, 27 October, at the Hungarian Film Festival in Los Angeles and will be released in cinemas across Hungary on 30 November, distributed by InterCom.<\/p>\n

Ildik\u00f3 Antal-Ferencz<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Source: hungarianconservative.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: hungarianconservative.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

On the anniversary of the 1956 revolution and freedom fight of Hungary, the world premiere of the film telling the life of Ign\u00e1c Semmelweis, a 19th century Hungarian physician and scientist, an early pioneer of antiseptic procedures was held on Monday, 23 October in New York. At the event, organized by the National Film Institute (NFI) and the Liszt Institute in New York, Minister of Culture and Innovation J\u00e1nos Cs\u00e1k, Csaba K\u00e1el, the government commissioner responsible for the development of the Hungarian film industry and President of the NFI,\u00a0director Lajos Koltai<\/a>, producer Tam\u00e1s Lajos, leading actor Mikl\u00f3s H. Vecsei, and Director of the Liszt Institute Csenge Palotai were all present.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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[caption id=\"attachment_18578\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"1024\"]\"\" Tam\u00e1s Lajos, Csenge Palotai, Lajos Koltai, Csaba K\u00e1el and Mikl\u00f3s H. Vecsei at the screening in New York on 24 October 2023 (L-R). PHOTO: NFI\/MTI[\/caption]

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The premiere was attended by ambassadors of more than twenty countries. Special guests of the evening were Courtenay Rattray, Chief of Staff of UN Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres and Stewart Simonson, Deputy Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO).<\/p>\n

The romantic period biopic created with the support of the NFI and produced by Szupermodern Filmst\u00fadi\u00f3 explores the life and work of Ign\u00e1c Semmelweis, a devoted Hungarian physician and scientist, who, defying traditional theories, strove to overcome one of the most devastating diseases of the 19th century, puerperal fever. The film shows him in 1847 and evokes the atmosphere of mid-19th-century Vienna, the life-or-death tragedies of the hospital at the time, the irreconcilable, entrenched conflicts between Austrian and Hungarian doctors, and the agonizing desire for love between a doctor and a nurse, a relationship socially unacceptable in those times.<\/p>\n

Before the screening, J\u00e1nos Cs\u00e1k explained that Hungarians currently celebrate several heroes: not only the 56ers, but also the famous poet S\u00e1ndor Pet\u0151fi who was born 200 years ago, as well as the the well-known writer Imre Mad\u00e1ch, whose main drama,\u00a0The Tragedy of Man<\/em>\u00a0was selected by\u00a0The Economist<\/em>\u00a0as the best ever written parabole on human progress, matching Goethe’s\u00a0Faust,<\/em>\u00a0Milton’s\u00a0Paradise Lost<\/em>\u00a0and Dante’s\u00a0Divina Commedia<\/em>. John von Neuman, the Hungarian father of the computer, was also born 120 years ago. \u2018Culture in my understanding is not only pictures and music, but our way of life, our way of thinking, therefore it includes art, science and also sports. Talking about science, this year we celebrated two Hungarian Nobel Prize winners, too: one in medicine and one physics,\u2019 the minister stated, who emphasized that Ign\u00e1c Semmelweis’s journey is an example to follow, since\u2014despite the malice and attacks from his Austrian superiors and colleagues\u2014he carried out his vision and became the \u2018saviour of mothers\u2019.<\/p>\n

He saved the lives of millions of people, just as Nobel laureate Katalin Karik\u00f3 did, J\u00e1nos Cs\u00e1k stressed.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The minister then reminded: \u2018100 years later, in Szeged, a city in the south of Hungary, there lived a gentlemen called Albert Szentgy\u00f6rgyi, who got the Noble prize in 1937 for discovering Vitamin C. I see a direct connection from Semmelweis through Szentgy\u00f6rgyi to Karik\u00f3, who researched in the very same institution where Szentgy\u00f6rgyi used to work\u2019. Hungary is a small country and nation, we are about ten million within the country\u2019s borders and 15 million around the globe, but we punch above our weight; and what is common in all great Hungarians is that they always work to preserve culture and safe lives. Hungarians are proud of that and this is the reason why the government invests a lot in the education system, Mr Cs\u00e1k concluded his speech.<\/p>\n

Csaba K\u00e1el first referred to the fact that the Motion Picture Museum, which hosts the premiere, is located next to the legendary Kaufmann Studios, built by Adolf Zukor, founder of Paramount Pictures, who was born and raised in Hungary. He would be very proud if he saw that there is a Hungarian film screening in New York, the commissioner said. \u2018Films, music and arts are very much rooted in the Hungarian DNA, as they are in that of the Americans.’ Mr K\u00e1el recalled that many famous Hungarians became household names in the US, through hard work and artistic talent. The talent, the secret ingredient has an origin in a creative, inventive nation: Hungary.\u2019 In K\u00e1\u00e9l’s opinion Budapest, often referred to as a regional cultural metropolis, and New York, \u2018its twin city, an undoubtedly true metropolis, share more in common than we may think: both cities are vibrant, dynamic, and are hubs for creativity. In the heart of Europe,<\/p>\n

Budapest is shaped by a blend of influences, especially in its architecture which filmmakers from around the globe find irresistible\u2019.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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[caption id=\"attachment_18579\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"1024\"]\"\" Csaba K\u00e1el delivering his remarks at the world premiere of Semmelweis in New York on 24 October 2023. PHOTO: NFI\/MTI[\/caption]

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He also emphasized that in recent years, Hungary has hosted landmark productions that have established Budapest as the second biggest film hub in Europe after London. The list of international blockbusters and critically acclaimed films shot in Hungary continues to grow and Hungary has shown itself as a versatile, captivating background for cinematic storytelling, K\u00e1el stated. Reflecting on the strategic vision of the NFI, he explained that it is dedicated not only to supporting creative talent of Hungarian films and preserving film heritage, but also to properly investing into a promising future. \u2018We are committed in supporting and nurturing local talent and fostering impact for international collaborations. A nation’s rich heritage provides filmmakers with a wealth of storytelling and possibilities ready to be turned into screenplays.\u2019<\/p>\n

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[caption id=\"attachment_18576\" align=\"alignnone\" width=\"1024\"]\"\" A werk photo of Semmelweis, with Lajos Koltai (center) instructing the cast and the crew. PHOTO: Attila Szvacsek\/NFI[\/caption]

<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

He emphasized that\u00a0Semmelweis<\/a><\/em>\u00a0is but one example of these talent stories, an excellent opportunity to present a Hungarian talent worldwide and tell his story; and there is a great deal of international interest in the film, which is further enhanced by the fact that in recent weeks Hungary could celebrate two Hungarian Nobel Prizes. \u2018If you think about it,<\/p>\n

Semmelweis’s discovery was of such importance at his own time that it would have been worth of a Nobel Prize if this recognition had already existed then,\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Csaba K\u00e1el concluded his speech.<\/p>\n

As Csenge Palotai mentioned, the film was shown on 23 October, a Hungarian national holiday, as it commemorates Ign\u00e1c Semmelweis’s unbroken faith and life of struggle, who was a hero like the Hungarian freedom fighters in 1956. His story is of great importance not only in Hungary, but throughout the world and it is a great opportunity that it can be shown overseas, Lajos Tam\u00e1s stated. The representative of WHO called the film an important opportunity to bring the figure closer to a wider audience and to explain how fundamental his work was in holistic medicine. As Mikl\u00f3s H. Vecsei previously emphasized, in the case of historical films, it is important that not only the positive character traits of the heroes be illustrated. Semmelweis was not a saint but a fallible human in search for his truth, who believed that his profession was more important than his personal life.<\/p>\n

Ign\u00e1c Semmelweis was the very first doctor who realized that the deadly childbed fever was caused actually by the doctors themselves, who also made autopsies while helping women to deliver their babies in the same institution and were totally unaware of themselves spreading the infection they got from the corpses. In the film version of his life, the doctors, who desperately try to realize what they are doing wrong, have to fight against the leadership of the Austrian hospital, who do everything to protect their authority from the consequences of the discoveries of the \u2018obsessed Hungarian doctor\u2019. The Austrian colleagues consider Semmelweis unbearably violent, interested only in the \u2018saint cause\u2019 of the health of the mothers’. Dr Kein, the director of the hospital\u2014for whom Semmelweis is the unpleasant, living conscience: if his theory is right, all the doctors were murderers\u2014even tries to set the Hungarian physicians by the ears. He suspends them collectively when they stand up for their colleague who had been suspended because of insisting that before entering the department all doctors should wash their hands with chlorinated water\u2014the only chemical that makes the smell of corpses (and thus infection) disappear.<\/p>\n

Although even his Hungarian colleagues do not really understand Semmelweis and consider him crazy (or at least weird, not enjoying the joys of Vienna life, but living only for his work), they at least try to support him by protecting him from the consequences of his hot-tempered behaviour and occasional violations. However, the only one who truly believes in him is a young nurse, Emma Hoffman, who helps him in his devoted work, desperate overnight research, while reciprocating the doctor’s tender emotions. However, she is blackmailed by a careerist Austrian doctor who aims to be the next director of the hospital and therefore tries to put mean obstacles in Semmelweis’s way even by putting mothers’ (and babies’) lives in danger. After three weeks of experiments qualified unsuccessful by the leadership, Semmelweis finds himself before a professional court, being accused of several instances of professional misconduct and called a charlatan. However, with Emma’s help, the truth finally transpires, his reputation is restored, and he ultimately becomes known as the \u2018saviour of mothers\u2019. After the trial, he is even offered the leadership of the obstetrics department in Vienna which he refuses, and moves back to Hungary.<\/p>\n

Semmelweis<\/em>\u00a0is the story of a professional freedom fight and a socially unacceptable love, beautifully photographed by Andr\u00e1s Nagy. Mikl\u00f3s H. Vecsei’s performance is extremely convincing: he renders the figure of the \u2018obsessed Hungarian doctor\u2019 masterfully. The only surprise is the female protagonist, played by Katica Nagy, who wins not only the doctor’s but also the viewers’ hearts\u2014and not through her beauty, but her braveness and devotion to her profession. Most of the minor characters are played by actors who are \u2018big names\u2019 in the Hungarian theatrical scence, such as L\u00e1szl\u00f3 G\u00e1lffi, Korn\u00e9l Simon and Nelli Sz\u0171cs.<\/p>\n

The dramaturge of the film is Krisztina Goda, acclaimed Hungarian screenwriter, dramaturge and director, most well-known for her film dedicated to the 1956 revolution\u00a0Szabads\u00e1g, szerelem<\/em>\u00a0(Children of Glory<\/em>).\u00a0Semmelweis<\/em>\u00a0is also being screened today, 27 October, at the Hungarian Film Festival in Los Angeles and will be released in cinemas across Hungary on 30 November, distributed by InterCom.<\/p>\n

Ildik\u00f3 Antal-Ferencz<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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At the event, organized by the National Film Institute (NFI) and the Liszt Institute in New York, Minister of Culture and Innovation J\u00e1nos Cs\u00e1k, Csaba K\u00e1el, the government commissioner responsible for the development of the Hungarian film industry and President of the NFI,\u00a0director Lajos Koltai, producer Tam\u00e1s Lajos, leading actor Mikl\u00f3s H. Vecsei, and Director of the Liszt Institute Csenge Palotai were all present. The premiere was attended by ambassadors of more than twenty countries. Special guests of the evening were Courtenay Rattray, Chief of Staff of UN Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres and Stewart Simonson, Deputy Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO). The romantic period biopic created with the support of the NFI and produced by Szupermodern Filmst\u00fadi\u00f3 explores the life and work of Ign\u00e1c Semmelweis, a devoted Hungarian physician and scientist, who, defying traditional theories, strove to overcome one of the most devastating diseases of the 19th century, puerperal fever. The film shows him in 1847 and evokes the atmosphere of mid-19th-century Vienna, the life-or-death tragedies of the hospital at the time, the irreconcilable, entrenched conflicts between Austrian and Hungarian doctors, and the agonizing desire for love between a doctor and a nurse, a relationship socially unacceptable in those times. Before the screening, J\u00e1nos Cs\u00e1k explained that Hungarians currently celebrate several heroes: not only the 56ers, but also the famous poet S\u00e1ndor Pet\u0151fi who was born 200 years ago, as well as the the well-known writer Imre Mad\u00e1ch, whose main drama,\u00a0The Tragedy of Man\u00a0was selected by\u00a0The Economist\u00a0as the best ever written parabole on human progress, matching Goethe's\u00a0Faust,\u00a0Milton's\u00a0Paradise Lost\u00a0and Dante's\u00a0Divina Commedia. John von Neuman, the Hungarian father of the computer, was also born 120 years ago. \u2018Culture in my understanding is not only pictures and music, but our way of life, our way of thinking, therefore it includes art, science and also sports. Talking about science, this year we celebrated two Hungarian Nobel Prize winners, too: one in medicine and one physics,\u2019 the minister stated, who emphasized that Ign\u00e1c Semmelweis's journey is an example to follow, since\u2014despite the malice and attacks from his Austrian superiors and colleagues\u2014he carried out his vision and became the \u2018saviour of mothers\u2019. He saved the lives of millions of people, just as Nobel laureate Katalin Karik\u00f3 did, J\u00e1nos Cs\u00e1k stressed. The minister then reminded: \u2018100 years later, in Szeged, a city in the south of Hungary, there lived a gentlemen called Albert Szentgy\u00f6rgyi, who got the Noble prize in 1937 for discovering Vitamin C. I see a direct connection from Semmelweis through Szentgy\u00f6rgyi to Karik\u00f3, who researched in the very same institution where Szentgy\u00f6rgyi used to work\u2019. Hungary is a small country and nation, we are about ten million within the country\u2019s borders and 15 million around the globe, but we punch above our weight; and what is common in all great Hungarians is that they always work to preserve culture and safe lives. Hungarians are proud of that and this is the reason why the government invests a lot in the education system, Mr Cs\u00e1k concluded his speech. Csaba K\u00e1el first referred to the fact that the Motion Picture Museum, which hosts the premiere, is located next to the legendary Kaufmann Studios, built by Adolf Zukor, founder of Paramount Pictures, who was born and raised in Hungary. He would be very proud if he saw that there is a Hungarian film screening in New York, the commissioner said. \u2018Films, music and arts are very much rooted in the Hungarian DNA, as they are in that of the Americans.' Mr K\u00e1el recalled that many famous Hungarians became household names in the US, through hard work and artistic talent. The talent, the secret ingredient has an origin in a creative, inventive nation: Hungary.\u2019 In K\u00e1\u00e9l's opinion Budapest, often referred to as a regional cultural metropolis, and New York, \u2018its twin city, an undoubtedly true metropolis, share more in common than we may think: both cities are vibrant, dynamic, and are hubs for creativity. In the heart of Europe, Budapest is shaped by a blend of influences, especially in its architecture which filmmakers from around the globe find irresistible\u2019. He also emphasized that in recent years, Hungary has hosted landmark productions that have established Budapest as the second biggest film hub in Europe after London. The list of international blockbusters and critically acclaimed films shot in Hungary continues to grow and Hungary has shown itself as a versatile, captivating background for cinematic storytelling, K\u00e1el stated. Reflecting on the strategic vision of the NFI, he explained that it is dedicated not only to supporting creative talent of Hungarian films and preserving film heritage, but also to properly investing into a promising future. \u2018We are committed in supporting and nurturing local talent and fostering impact for international collaborations. A nation's rich heritage provides filmmakers with a wealth of storytelling and possibilities ready to be turned into screenplays.\u2019 He emphasized that\u00a0Semmelweis\u00a0is but one example of these talent stories, an excellent opportunity to present a Hungarian talent worldwide and tell his story; and there is a great deal of international interest in the film, which is further enhanced by the fact that in recent weeks Hungary could celebrate two Hungarian Nobel Prizes. \u2018If you think about it, Semmelweis's discovery was of such importance at his own time that it would have been worth of a Nobel Prize if this recognition had already existed then,\u2019 Csaba K\u00e1el concluded his speech. As Csenge Palotai mentioned, the film was shown on 23 October, a Hungarian national holiday, as it commemorates Ign\u00e1c Semmelweis's unbroken faith and life of struggle, who was a hero like the Hungarian freedom fighters in 1956. His story is of great importance not only in Hungary, but throughout the world and it is a great opportunity that it can be shown overseas, Lajos Tam\u00e1s stated. The representative of WHO called the film an important opportunity to bring the figure closer to a wider audience and to explain how fundamental his work was in holistic medicine. As Mikl\u00f3s H. Vecsei previously emphasized, in the case of historical films, it is important that not only the positive character traits of the heroes be illustrated. Semmelweis was not a saint but a fallible human in search for his truth, who believed that his profession was more important than his personal life. Ign\u00e1c Semmelweis was the very first doctor who realized that the deadly childbed fever was caused actually by the doctors themselves, who also made autopsies while helping women to deliver their babies in the same institution and were totally unaware of themselves spreading the infection they got from the corpses. In the film version of his life, the doctors, who desperately try to realize what they are doing wrong, have to fight against the leadership of the Austrian hospital, who do everything to protect their authority from the consequences of the discoveries of the \u2018obsessed Hungarian doctor\u2019. The Austrian colleagues consider Semmelweis unbearably violent, interested only in the \u2018saint cause\u2019 of the health of the mothers'. Dr Kein, the director of the hospital\u2014for whom Semmelweis is the unpleasant, living conscience: if his theory is right, all the doctors were murderers\u2014even tries to set the Hungarian physicians by the ears. He suspends them collectively when they stand up for their colleague who had been suspended because of insisting that before entering the department all doctors should wash their hands with chlorinated water\u2014the only chemical that makes the smell of corpses (and thus infection) disappear. Although even his Hungarian colleagues do not really understand Semmelweis and consider him crazy (or at least weird, not enjoying the joys of Vienna life, but living only for his work), they at least try to support him by protecting him from the consequences of his hot-tempered behaviour and occasional violations. However, the only one who truly believes in him is a young nurse, Emma Hoffman, who helps him in his devoted work, desperate overnight research, while reciprocating the doctor's tender emotions. However, she is blackmailed by a careerist Austrian doctor who aims to be the next director of the hospital and therefore tries to put mean obstacles in Semmelweis's way even by putting mothers' (and babies') lives in danger. After three weeks of experiments qualified unsuccessful by the leadership, Semmelweis finds himself before a professional court, being accused of several instances of professional misconduct and called a charlatan. However, with Emma's help, the truth finally transpires, his reputation is restored, and he ultimately becomes known as the \u2018saviour of mothers\u2019. After the trial, he is even offered the leadership of the obstetrics department in Vienna which he refuses, and moves back to Hungary. Semmelweis\u00a0is the story of a professional freedom fight and a socially unacceptable love, beautifully photographed by Andr\u00e1s Nagy. Mikl\u00f3s H. Vecsei's performance is extremely convincing: he renders the figure of the \u2018obsessed Hungarian doctor\u2019 masterfully. The only surprise is the female protagonist, played by Katica Nagy, who wins not only the doctor's but also the viewers' hearts\u2014and not through her beauty, but her braveness and devotion to her profession. Most of the minor characters are played by actors who are \u2018big names\u2019 in the Hungarian theatrical scence, such as L\u00e1szl\u00f3 G\u00e1lffi, Korn\u00e9l Simon and Nelli Sz\u0171cs. The dramaturge of the film is Krisztina Goda, acclaimed Hungarian screenwriter, dramaturge and director, most well-known for her film dedicated to the 1956 revolution\u00a0Szabads\u00e1g, szerelem\u00a0(Children of Glory).\u00a0Semmelweis\u00a0is also being screened today, 27 October, at the Hungarian Film Festival in Los Angeles and will be released in cinemas across Hungary on 30 November, distributed by InterCom. 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At the event, organized by the National Film Institute (NFI) and the Liszt Institute in New York, Minister of Culture and Innovation J\u00e1nos Cs\u00e1k, Csaba K\u00e1el, the government commissioner responsible for the development of the Hungarian film industry and President of the NFI,\u00a0director Lajos Koltai, producer Tam\u00e1s Lajos, leading actor Mikl\u00f3s H. Vecsei, and Director of the Liszt Institute Csenge Palotai were all present. The premiere was attended by ambassadors of more than twenty countries. Special guests of the evening were Courtenay Rattray, Chief of Staff of UN Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres and Stewart Simonson, Deputy Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO). The romantic period biopic created with the support of the NFI and produced by Szupermodern Filmst\u00fadi\u00f3 explores the life and work of Ign\u00e1c Semmelweis, a devoted Hungarian physician and scientist, who, defying traditional theories, strove to overcome one of the most devastating diseases of the 19th century, puerperal fever. The film shows him in 1847 and evokes the atmosphere of mid-19th-century Vienna, the life-or-death tragedies of the hospital at the time, the irreconcilable, entrenched conflicts between Austrian and Hungarian doctors, and the agonizing desire for love between a doctor and a nurse, a relationship socially unacceptable in those times. Before the screening, J\u00e1nos Cs\u00e1k explained that Hungarians currently celebrate several heroes: not only the 56ers, but also the famous poet S\u00e1ndor Pet\u0151fi who was born 200 years ago, as well as the the well-known writer Imre Mad\u00e1ch, whose main drama,\u00a0The Tragedy of Man\u00a0was selected by\u00a0The Economist\u00a0as the best ever written parabole on human progress, matching Goethe's\u00a0Faust,\u00a0Milton's\u00a0Paradise Lost\u00a0and Dante's\u00a0Divina Commedia. John von Neuman, the Hungarian father of the computer, was also born 120 years ago. \u2018Culture in my understanding is not only pictures and music, but our way of life, our way of thinking, therefore it includes art, science and also sports. Talking about science, this year we celebrated two Hungarian Nobel Prize winners, too: one in medicine and one physics,\u2019 the minister stated, who emphasized that Ign\u00e1c Semmelweis's journey is an example to follow, since\u2014despite the malice and attacks from his Austrian superiors and colleagues\u2014he carried out his vision and became the \u2018saviour of mothers\u2019. He saved the lives of millions of people, just as Nobel laureate Katalin Karik\u00f3 did, J\u00e1nos Cs\u00e1k stressed. The minister then reminded: \u2018100 years later, in Szeged, a city in the south of Hungary, there lived a gentlemen called Albert Szentgy\u00f6rgyi, who got the Noble prize in 1937 for discovering Vitamin C. I see a direct connection from Semmelweis through Szentgy\u00f6rgyi to Karik\u00f3, who researched in the very same institution where Szentgy\u00f6rgyi used to work\u2019. Hungary is a small country and nation, we are about ten million within the country\u2019s borders and 15 million around the globe, but we punch above our weight; and what is common in all great Hungarians is that they always work to preserve culture and safe lives. Hungarians are proud of that and this is the reason why the government invests a lot in the education system, Mr Cs\u00e1k concluded his speech. Csaba K\u00e1el first referred to the fact that the Motion Picture Museum, which hosts the premiere, is located next to the legendary Kaufmann Studios, built by Adolf Zukor, founder of Paramount Pictures, who was born and raised in Hungary. He would be very proud if he saw that there is a Hungarian film screening in New York, the commissioner said. \u2018Films, music and arts are very much rooted in the Hungarian DNA, as they are in that of the Americans.' Mr K\u00e1el recalled that many famous Hungarians became household names in the US, through hard work and artistic talent. The talent, the secret ingredient has an origin in a creative, inventive nation: Hungary.\u2019 In K\u00e1\u00e9l's opinion Budapest, often referred to as a regional cultural metropolis, and New York, \u2018its twin city, an undoubtedly true metropolis, share more in common than we may think: both cities are vibrant, dynamic, and are hubs for creativity. In the heart of Europe, Budapest is shaped by a blend of influences, especially in its architecture which filmmakers from around the globe find irresistible\u2019. He also emphasized that in recent years, Hungary has hosted landmark productions that have established Budapest as the second biggest film hub in Europe after London. The list of international blockbusters and critically acclaimed films shot in Hungary continues to grow and Hungary has shown itself as a versatile, captivating background for cinematic storytelling, K\u00e1el stated. Reflecting on the strategic vision of the NFI, he explained that it is dedicated not only to supporting creative talent of Hungarian films and preserving film heritage, but also to properly investing into a promising future. \u2018We are committed in supporting and nurturing local talent and fostering impact for international collaborations. A nation's rich heritage provides filmmakers with a wealth of storytelling and possibilities ready to be turned into screenplays.\u2019 He emphasized that\u00a0Semmelweis\u00a0is but one example of these talent stories, an excellent opportunity to present a Hungarian talent worldwide and tell his story; and there is a great deal of international interest in the film, which is further enhanced by the fact that in recent weeks Hungary could celebrate two Hungarian Nobel Prizes. \u2018If you think about it, Semmelweis's discovery was of such importance at his own time that it would have been worth of a Nobel Prize if this recognition had already existed then,\u2019 Csaba K\u00e1el concluded his speech. As Csenge Palotai mentioned, the film was shown on 23 October, a Hungarian national holiday, as it commemorates Ign\u00e1c Semmelweis's unbroken faith and life of struggle, who was a hero like the Hungarian freedom fighters in 1956. His story is of great importance not only in Hungary, but throughout the world and it is a great opportunity that it can be shown overseas, Lajos Tam\u00e1s stated. The representative of WHO called the film an important opportunity to bring the figure closer to a wider audience and to explain how fundamental his work was in holistic medicine. As Mikl\u00f3s H. Vecsei previously emphasized, in the case of historical films, it is important that not only the positive character traits of the heroes be illustrated. Semmelweis was not a saint but a fallible human in search for his truth, who believed that his profession was more important than his personal life. Ign\u00e1c Semmelweis was the very first doctor who realized that the deadly childbed fever was caused actually by the doctors themselves, who also made autopsies while helping women to deliver their babies in the same institution and were totally unaware of themselves spreading the infection they got from the corpses. In the film version of his life, the doctors, who desperately try to realize what they are doing wrong, have to fight against the leadership of the Austrian hospital, who do everything to protect their authority from the consequences of the discoveries of the \u2018obsessed Hungarian doctor\u2019. The Austrian colleagues consider Semmelweis unbearably violent, interested only in the \u2018saint cause\u2019 of the health of the mothers'. Dr Kein, the director of the hospital\u2014for whom Semmelweis is the unpleasant, living conscience: if his theory is right, all the doctors were murderers\u2014even tries to set the Hungarian physicians by the ears. He suspends them collectively when they stand up for their colleague who had been suspended because of insisting that before entering the department all doctors should wash their hands with chlorinated water\u2014the only chemical that makes the smell of corpses (and thus infection) disappear. Although even his Hungarian colleagues do not really understand Semmelweis and consider him crazy (or at least weird, not enjoying the joys of Vienna life, but living only for his work), they at least try to support him by protecting him from the consequences of his hot-tempered behaviour and occasional violations. However, the only one who truly believes in him is a young nurse, Emma Hoffman, who helps him in his devoted work, desperate overnight research, while reciprocating the doctor's tender emotions. However, she is blackmailed by a careerist Austrian doctor who aims to be the next director of the hospital and therefore tries to put mean obstacles in Semmelweis's way even by putting mothers' (and babies') lives in danger. After three weeks of experiments qualified unsuccessful by the leadership, Semmelweis finds himself before a professional court, being accused of several instances of professional misconduct and called a charlatan. However, with Emma's help, the truth finally transpires, his reputation is restored, and he ultimately becomes known as the \u2018saviour of mothers\u2019. After the trial, he is even offered the leadership of the obstetrics department in Vienna which he refuses, and moves back to Hungary. Semmelweis\u00a0is the story of a professional freedom fight and a socially unacceptable love, beautifully photographed by Andr\u00e1s Nagy. Mikl\u00f3s H. Vecsei's performance is extremely convincing: he renders the figure of the \u2018obsessed Hungarian doctor\u2019 masterfully. The only surprise is the female protagonist, played by Katica Nagy, who wins not only the doctor's but also the viewers' hearts\u2014and not through her beauty, but her braveness and devotion to her profession. Most of the minor characters are played by actors who are \u2018big names\u2019 in the Hungarian theatrical scence, such as L\u00e1szl\u00f3 G\u00e1lffi, Korn\u00e9l Simon and Nelli Sz\u0171cs. The dramaturge of the film is Krisztina Goda, acclaimed Hungarian screenwriter, dramaturge and director, most well-known for her film dedicated to the 1956 revolution\u00a0Szabads\u00e1g, szerelem\u00a0(Children of Glory).\u00a0Semmelweis\u00a0is also being screened today, 27 October, at the Hungarian Film Festival in Los Angeles and will be released in cinemas across Hungary on 30 November, distributed by InterCom. 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