After The Camera Murderer, Pejo prepares Paw
The only representative of Hungarian production currently in the line-up at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival, where The Camera Murderer has been selected in the Horizons section, Romanian-born director Robert Adrian Pejo (Dallas Among Us, acclaimed in the Berlinale Panorama 2005) is preparing his fourth feature,Paw, which will start shooting this autumn.
Crowned with the Best Director Award at the latest Hungarian Film Week, The Camera Murderer was co-produced by Austria (Lotus Film), Hungary (Mythberg) and Switzerland (Cobra Film). Adapted from Thomas Glavinic’s novel by the director, Agnes Pluch, Robert Pejo and Günter Pscheider, the film centres on two couples who have gone away for the weekend on the Austro-Hungarian border.
Three young children from the neighbourhood have disappeared and reappear on the Internet in a snuff movie. Tensions and suspicions soon arise, and all the characters seem to have something to hide.
The cast includes Hungary’sDorka Gryllus, Austria’s Andreas Lust, Georgia’s Merab Ninidze and Switzerland’s Ursina Lardi.
Produced by Uj Budapest Filmstudio, Pejo’s forthcoming film Paw is scripted by Magda Dajani and Norbert Köbli. It will centre on the famous rescue dog Mancs.
A specialist in locating earthquake victims, this dog took part, along with his owner Laszlo Lehoczki, in numerous rescue operations, notably in Salvador, Guatemala, India, Egypt, Italy, and Turkey in 1999 where he helped save a three-year-old girl who had been buried in the rubble for 82 hours.
(Translated from French)
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