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CANNES 2011 Market / Hungary

Hungary eyes on future at the Croisette

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Absent from the different selections at the 64th Cannes Film Festival, aside from the minority co-production The Other Side of Sleep [+see also:
trailer
interview: Antonia Campbell-Huges
film profile
]
by Rebecca Dalyet and Attila Till’s short Beast in the Directors’ Fortnight, Hungarian cinema is busy planning its future at the Marché du Film, which kicked off yesterday. Screenings include Bela Tarr’s Berlin prizewinner The Turin Horse [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Béla Tarr
film profile
]
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Projects in production include István Szabó’s The Door, starring Helen Mirren and Martina Gedeck (see article, sales by Bankside Films); Sára Cserhalmi’s Dear Betrayed Friend (a KMH Film and I’m Film production); Szabolcs Hajdu’s The Gambler (see article); and Áron Gauder’s animated Viking film Egill: The Last Pagan (an Icelandic/German co-production – see article).

Other titles ready for 2012 are Ádám Császi’s love story on teenage revolt, A Land of Storms (produced by Proton Cinema); Árpád Bogdán’s story on a young gypsy, Necromancer (Laokoon Filmgroup, Finland’s Kinoproduction Oy and Serbian outfit Art and Popcorn); and Attila Gigor’s The Man Who Didn’t Get Shot, a tale of the sole survivor of a shoot-out fusillade (and a four-way co-production between KMH Film, Irish outfit Fastnet Films, Sweden’s Anagram produktion and South Africa).

Lined up for 2013 is György Pálfi’s Toldi. Produced by Katapult Film, the project is announced as a Raging Bull set in 14th century Central Europe. The plot follows Toldi Miklós, a child trapped in the body of a giant, born into nobility but raised as a peasant on the orders of his brother. After spending time as a fugitive, jousting champion, knight and personal guard of King Louis, lover, murderer and pariah, he is granted a last chance to prove his worth, 20 years following his banishment from the capital.

Other noteworthy projects are Hajdu’s Mirage (see news); Orsi Nagypál’s Balaton Submarine, on the summer encounter between East and West Germans around 1980 (KMH Film); and Kornél Mundruczó’s film The Flying Man (Proton Cinema), about an 18 year-old boy trained secretly in Russia who discovers an unexpected talent: he knows how to fly. Fleeing to the West, he begins a new life, learning how to use his power whilst dreaming of becoming human again.

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(Translated from French)

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