22/12/2005

The 37th Hungarian film Week, which will take place from the 31st of January to the 7th of February, will present the best recent Magyar productions. In the meantime, there is not a single national film on release for the Christmas holidays. A four way road called blockbuster boulevard follows a path left wide open by King Kong and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire...), but there are three European features on the programme. Today, FF Film launches the British movie Truth about Love by John Hay (produced by Piccadilly Pictures, Lex Filmed Entertainment, and on Thursday 29th, a German and a Spanish film will come out thanks to the partnership of two distributors, Cirko Film and Másképp Alapítvány. Indeed, they will release Agnes und seine Brüder by Oskar Roehler, an X-Filme Creative Pool production starring Martin Weiß, Moritz Bleibtreu, Herbert Knaup and Katja Riemann, and The Seventh Day (El Séptimo día) by Carlos Saura, starring Juan Diego, José Luis Gómez, the French actor José Garcia and Victoria Abril .

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As far as the box-office is concerned, three Hungarian comedies are in the top 10, including Csak szex és más semmi by Krisztina Goda, in the third position ten days after its release (prod.: Megafilm, distr.: HungariCom), the newcomer Blond Coke, by Ákos Barnóczky, which immediately reached the fifth row (prod.: New Balance, distr.: SPI International), and Egy szoknya, egy nadrág by Bence Gyöngyössy, which firmly holds on to its eighth position after nine weeks. It is worth pointing out the good result of the Spanish horror film Fragile [+see also:
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(Translated from French)