Bence Farkas’s work was an award-winner of Müpa Budapest’s autumn competition for composers, in the film music category. Alexander Korda’s classic of cinematic history presents a special challenge to the modern composer of incidental music: “This early silent film can easily prove demanding for today’s watcher: it seems slow-paced, but it is still difficult to follow; the actors keep making unusual gestures, the inserts break the sequence of images, and there are quite a few other technical solutions you can’t see in a modern film,” the composer said. “The greatest challenge is the composition itself: what can the style accommodate; does it facilitate reception; what is the weight of contemporary techniques to be; how can it be performed? And will it work live? If I can answer these questions right, the performance can be enjoyable and exciting.”

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