Prizes: 2004 - Budapest Hungarian Film Week Prize to the director for Visual Expression

Joseph and his Brothers (József és testvérei) (2003, feature, 35mm, colour, 97 min.) Director: András Jeles Screenplay: András Jeles Director of photography: Tamás Babos Editor: Károly Szalai Sound: György Kovács Visual design: Zoltán Perovics Costumes: Zsuzsa Pártényi Production manager: Györgyi Kulcsár Producer: László Berta Production company: Panorama Film Ltd. Cast: György Hunyadkürthy, Juli Nyakó, István Bicskei, Bori Rutkai, Györk Szakonyi, Zita Debreczeny Scenes from a Peasant Bible  – Did you write it to be a script or did you simply write it and the process took on a life of its own?  – I knew it was going to be a film, but I didn’t really think about this during the writing process. I wanted to reconstruct the fragmented nature of the Peasant Bible, and I didn’t set out to write anything at all. The Peasant Bible really appealed to me, and I have been looking at it and thinking about how I could make it into a film. This is a large amount of material, from Genesis – because there are fragments in the Peasant Bible starting with the first book of Moses – all the way to the Gospels dealing with Jesus, but these are all fragments, and there was no way for me to make it into one whole. I needed years to come up with the simple idea, i.e. I myself should write a story. I had been struggling, feeling the film was in me and that this was a great idea, but I still couldn’t get it together. Then I thought: why don’t you write? It was then that I realised that I actually felt like writing this. ”…So hear and understand you all, welcome what I myself was just given by those who by now are freed from the yoke of the body, and its old frame, and whose dust is now mixed with the dust of their predecessors, do listen with a good heart to the true story of Joseph and his brothers…” Festivals: 2005 - Roma Film Festival 2004 - Budapest Hungarian Film Week (in competition)