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THE LUNATICS' SONG

by Csaba Bereczki

synopsis

Zoltán Frimont is a young French physician working for the organisation Physicians Without Borders. He is on a mission in Romania with his wife, when he collapses unexpectedly, and finds himself at a psychiatric institution in Transylvania. Life in hospital becomes familiar to him, he discovers the peculiar world of the mentally ill, he feels he is surrounded by a better, more genuine world in the hospital than in the "normal" world he used to live in. He decides that he will never leave the hospital.

international title: The Lunatics' Song
original title: Bolondok éneke
country: Hungary, France
sales agent: MGI International
year: 2002
genre: fiction
directed by: Csaba Bereczki
film run: 108'
screenplay: Suzanne Schiffman
cast: Stéphane Höhn, Károly Eperjes, Julie Depardieu, Maia Morgenstern, Radu Amzulescu
cinematography by: Tibor Nemes
film editing: Pierre Haberer
art director: Iris Gâlcescu
costumes designer: Imre Orosz
music: Akosh Szelevenyi
production: Csaba Bereczki Productions, Tracol Films, Magyar Filmunió, Rogerius Film Kft. (HU)

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