Master Classes 2016: leading experts take centre stage

In the annual master class screenings, top international film experts provide their insight to some of the cinema’s finest classics.

OLAF MÖLLER, a true “honorary friend” of Midnight Sun Film Festival, focuses on late-1950s film from his native country of Germany. Möller provides deep insight into films starring Romy Schneider, Maria Schell, Hardy Krüger and Daliah Lavi, some of them directed by the famed Helmut Käutner.

GYÖRGY HORVÁTH, the director of Titanic Film Festival of Budapest as well as teacher in film history and -analysis, introduces some of the top post-1960s Hungarian films. Miniseries includes, among other films, Sinbad by Zoltán Huszárik and Little Valentino by András Jeles, both voted among “12 Best Hungarian Films” by Hungarian filmmakers and critics in 2000.

Film producer and Gothenburg Film Festival programme manager FREDDY OLSSON presents Stellan Olsson’s 1976 jazz film Sven Klang Quintet – based on the Olsson-produced play by October theatre only two years earlier.