Variety Critics’ Choice: Europe Now! 2004 / Kontroll / Hungary 2003
A new face of Hungarian cinema: "Subway" meets "The Taking of Pelham One Two Three" in Budapest´s metro, where a killer is loose.
The trains keep a-rollin´ in Control, an action thriller set entirely in the grungy stations and dank tunnels of the Budapest subway system. U.S.-born helmer Nimród Antal is well-traveled in genre conventions and keeps a firm hand on the throttle throughout the smartly-paced saga taking place in the familial yet eccentric world of ticket inspectors and their hostile populace, a world where a hooded killer is running looose. Crowd-pleasing, darkly comic joyride was the top Magyar earner of 2003. Shot with an obvious appreciation for the geometry of space, Gyula Pados´ nimble camera prowls into every corner, and the various foot races in stations and tunnels are individual triumphs of shooting and editing.
Eddie Cockrell
105 min / Color, 35 mm
Director Nimród Antal
/ Screenplay Nimród Antal
/ Dir. of Photography Gyula Pados
/ Music NEO
/ Editor István Király
/ Producer Tamás Hutlassa
/ Production Café Film, koprodukce / co-production: Bonfire
/ Cast Sándor Csányi, Sándor Badár, Eszter Balla, György Cserhalmi, Enikö Eszenyi, Zsolt Nagy, Csaba Pindroch
/ Contact National Film Institute Hungary, The Film Sales Company
www: www.kontrollfilm.hu
National Film Institute Hungary
Róna utca 174., 1145, Budapest
Hungary
Phone: +36 30 4414465, +36 146 113 20
The Film Sales Company
165 Madison Avenue, suite 601, NY 10016, New York
United States of America
Phone: +1 212 481 5020
Fax: +1 646 274 0923
E-mail: [email protected]
Annamária Basa
Nimród Antal
Kinga Gajdos
Film Institution Rep.
Tamás Hutlassa
Producer
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