Budapest school
The Balázs studio gave birth to two main movements in the early 1970s: an experimental, avant-garde group (led by individuals like Gábor Bódy), and the documentarist group, whose main goal was the portrayal of absolute social-reality on screen.The main founders and leaders of the group were István Dárday, Györgyi Szalai, Judit Ember and Pál Schiffer.Their central themes were mostly the lives of working class and poor people in urban Hungary and their struggle to have a decent existence.The main goal of the movement was to show absolute reality on screen instead of the false escapism shown by commercial and mainstream films.The first full-length film made in this manner was Jutalomutazás ("The Prize Trip") (1975) by István Dárday and Györgyi Szalai.