Flames

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Flames es una película de drama húngara de 1941 dirigida por László Kalmár y protagonizada por Pál Jávor, Ferenc Kiss y Valéria Hidvéghy. Fue filmada en los Estudios Hunnia en Budapest. Los decorados de la película fueron diseñados por el director de arte Márton Vincze. Se estrenó en el Festival de Cine de Venecia de 1941. Disfrutó de un enorme éxito comercial en la vecina Yugoslavia, particularmente en Croacia.

Resumen

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Notable quotes

“Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.”
— Jorge Luis Borges, in "A New Refutation of Time" (1946).
“κόσμον τόνδε, τὸν αὐτὸν ἁπάντων, οὔτε τις θεῶν οὐτε ἀνθρώπων ἐποίησεν, ἀλλ' ἦν ἀεὶ καὶ ἔστιν καὶ ἔσται πῦρ ἀείζωον, ἁπτόμενον μέτρα καὶ ἀποσβεννύμενον μέτρα”
— This universe, which is the same for all, has not been made by any god or man, but it always has been, is, and will be an ever-living fire, kindling itself by regular measures and going out by regular measures.
“Fire destroys all sophistry, that is deceit; and maintains truth alone, that is gold.”
— Leonardo da Vinci, The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci (1938), X Studies and Sketches for Pictures and Decorations, as translated by Edward MacCurdy.
“And if anyone wants to harm them, fire issues forth from their mouths and devours their enemies; and if anyone should want to harm them, in this manner he must be killed.”
— John the Evangelist, Book of Revelation 11:5, New World Translation
“Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, play the man! We shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.”
— Hugh Latimer, The Martyrdom, p. 523.
“In ashes of despaire, though burnt, shall make thee live.”
— Sir Philip Sidney, Arcadia.

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