Director's Thoughts

Wherever a sound, a song emerges there is also a soul; wherever there's a soul, there is also a human being; wherever there's a human being, there is also a destiny; wherever there.s a destiny, there might as well emerge a movie.

Through the film we would like to visualise the world of "spirit", of the soul, the inconceivable, the unearthly and the interlock, the unity between music and man. There are certain regions, countries where the only thing people are left with is their own past; but this past . as it turns out from the movie - worth more than the ultramodern present and pretended future of other places. These people tell the story of their past, reveal the spirit of the place through music; their own stories, their ancestors. stories, their life stories, their preserved and live past is expressed through music.

During this tight one and half hours, the Film introduces us into this unknown world. László Kelemen, a musician originally from Transylvania, at present Director of the Hungarian Heritage House in Budapest, begins his journey in front of our camera, and together with us discovers people and their music he has not known before either. The journey slowly turns into an exploration tour all over Transylvania once Béla Bartók, the world famous composer used to make.

People sing Life itself. At first, these sounds blend sorrow, joy, hope and faith. The truth is, however, that these people play and sing because they cannot free themselves of the thought that something is going to be lost forever. By the time they finish their song we believe, together with them, that nothing passes away ... This is the Song of Lives about ...

A few guidelines to this movie: think of Buena Vista Social Club, a film made by Wim Wenders about "unknown" Cuban musicians. Those who watched the movie got acquainted with Cuba through the stories of real people, who happened to be exceptional musicians too. "Cuba" of our movie is Transylvania. This world is still unknown to the other, so called "more fortunate" part of world. This is a film is made for them and for us.