Gárdos, Gauder and Koltai in Toronto
Three jewels of Hungarian production in 2005 are scheduled for a visit to the 30th Toronto Film Festival running from the 8th to the 17th September. With The Porcelain Doll by Péter Gárdos selected in the Visions section, the animated feature The District! by Áron Gauder in the category Midnight Madness and Fateless [+see also:
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7th feature by Péter Gárdos, The Porcelain Doll has already won numerous prizes, notably collecting four awards at the last Hungarian Film Week (best director, Gene Moskowitz Prize from the foreign press, best supporting role Sándor Csányi...). Produced by Tivoli-Filmproduction with a budget of around 330 000 dollars, the film was co-produced by Duna Television and supported by the Motion Picture Public Foundation of Hungary, the Hungarian Minister for Culture and the National Radio and Television Commission. Worth noting too that the filmmaker’s new piece, The Real Santa is already in post-production (see the making of on Cineuropa).
The animated film The District! (Nyócker), first feature by Áron Gauder also had success in the theatres and at festivals, winning the prize for Visual Expression at the Hungarian Film Week and making a splash in June at the Annecy Animation Festival. Made with a small 500 000 dollars budget in 18 months, it follows the misadventures of the inhabitants of a multicultural quarter of Budapest, district D8, which gathers Hungarians of all hues, Romany, Arab, Chinese, American, German, women of dubious virtue, police and animals.
In official competition at the Berlin Festival, Fateless by Lájos Koltai was produced by Hungarian company Magic Media (with strong support from the Hungarian Motion Picture Foundation), in co-production with the German company EuroArts Entertainment Filmproduktions and the British Renegade Films. The film, the most expensive in the history of Hungarian cinema with a budget of more than 11 million euros, received finance too from the German fund MFG, MDM and MDR. Already distributed in Hungary and in Germany, Fateless will be released on the 4th November in Italy.
(Translated from French)
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