Karlovy Vary International Film Festival

July 4 - 12, 2008

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Colour, 35 mm
Hungary, Sweden, Ireland, 2008, 107 min
IP – International premiere
Section: Official Selection - Competition
Film trailer: Higher quality | Lower quality

Film screenings:
716 - 10.7., 20:00, Grand Hall
8E1 - 11.7., 10:00, Espace Dorleans Cinema

Director: Attila Gigor
Screenplay: Attila Gigor
Dir. of Photography: Máté Herbai
Music: László Melis
Designer: Sandra Stevanovity
Editor: Zoltán Kovács
Producer: Ferenc Pusztai
Production: KMH Film
Sales: TrustNordisk
Contact: Magyar Filmunió

Cast

Zsolt Anger, Judit Rezes, Sándor Terhes, Ildikó Tóth, Éva Kerekes, Zsolt Zágoni

Synopsis

The hero of this unconventional crime film is 37-year-old Tibor, who works as a pathologist. He leads a lonely life as someone who has problems communicating with people. In the hospital where he works, a few floors up, lies his mother who is dying of cancer. Tibor finds out about a possible cure for his mother’s illness available in Sweden, but this would require the kind of money he just doesn’t have. At this point a mysterious one-eyed man called Cyclops enters his life and offers him the funding he needs if he agrees to carry out an assassination. Tibor accepts the job, without knowing the identity of his intended target. A letter he receives after the killing, however, reveals to him circumstances of which he was totally unaware. Director and screenwriter Attila Gigor didn’t intend his first feature as a spectacle for strong stomachs. In his hero lies an element of poignant vulnerability, as suggested in the highly stylised sequences portraying his inner world.

About the director

Attila Gigor (b. 1978, Budapest, Hungary), sometimes credited as Attila Galambos, studied acting at various Hungarian drama schools. In 2000 he enrolled at the Hungarian Academy of Film and Drama, where he was a student of director Sándor Simó and, after the latter’s death, of Ferenc Grunwalsky. During his studies he made shorts, documentaries and experimental films and became established as a writer-director. After Ágnes Kocsis (Fresh Air / Friss levegö, 2006 – screened at the Karlovy Vary IFF in 2006 in the section Variety Critics’ Choice) and Anna Faur (Girls / Lányok, 2007), Attila Gigor is the third graduate from his year to have successfully completed a feature debut.

Film Guests

Zsolt Anger, Attila Gigor, Ferenc Pusztai, Judit Rezes

Contacts

KMH Film
Késmárk utca 24., H-1158 Budapest
Hungary
Tel: +36 1 414 0885
Fax: +36 1 414 0887
E-mail: orsolya.banki@kmhfilm.com
www: www.kmhfilm.hu

Magyar Filmunió
Városligeti fasor 38, 1068 Budapest
Hungary
Tel: +36 1 351 7760
Fax: +36 1 352 6734
E-mail: filmunio@filmunio.hu
www: www.filmunio.hu

TrustNordisk
Filmbyen 12, 2650 Hvidovre
Denmark
Tel: +45 36 868 788
Fax: +45 36 774 448
E-mail: info@trustnordisk.com
www: www.trustnordisk.com

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