14/07/2023 - Filming on the new feature by Peter Fazakas, who directed The Game, has now entered the home straight, courtesy of Film Positive Productions

Director Peter Fazakas (© Film Positive Productions)

Having kicked off in June, shooting on Tonight We Kill (Ma este gyilkolunk) by Peter Fazakas, which is set in a manor house in Ráckeresztúr, is set to wrap at the end of July. This will be the director’s 3rd feature film after Para in 2008 and The Game [+see also:
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Leading the cast is seasoned actor András Kern, who’s very famous in Hungary thanks to a multitude of comedies and who’s been absent from screens since Think of Me [+see also:
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Penned by Norbert Köbli (who won Best Hungarian Screenplay in 2016 for Demimonde [+see also:
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Tonight We Kill is produced by Tamás Lajos on behalf of Film Positive Productions and enjoys support from the NFI (National Film Institute). Photography is entrusted to István Balázs Balázs (awarded multiple trophies for Casting) and production design to Pater Sparrow. Distribution in Hungarian cinemas will be steered by InterCom.

For the record, Film Positive Productions recently produced The Game and Blockade [+see also:
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(Translated from French)