18/12/2008

Today sees the domestic launch by Budapest Film of Gábor Herendi’s highly anticipated A Kind of America 2. This is the sequel to the film that took the Hungarian box office by storm in 2002 with 540,000 admissions, making it the first domestic feature to reach such heights.

The cast features the main actors from the first instalment, including Tibor Szervét, Csaba Pindroch, Gyözö Szabó, Ferenc Hujber, Eszter Ónodi and Szonja Oroszlán, as well as new faces Kátya Tompos, Lucia Brawley and Imre Csuja.

Co-written by the director, Gábor Harmat and up-and-coming screenwriter Réka Divinyi (Just Sex and Nothing Else [+see also:
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Two years after the US producer (Szervét) of Tamas’ film ran off with their money and Akos’ (Oroszlán) girlfriend, the trio go to New York to try to track them down. They become embroiled in a host of new incidents related to a theatre project which is of interest to a mafioso.

Produced for Skyfilm by Herendi (who also directed Magyar Vándor in 2004 and Lora: A Story about Love in 2007) and Ágnes Havas, A Kind of America 2 was made for €1.4m. This included backing from the Motion Picture Public Foundation of Hungary. Budapest Films are releasing the title on 44 screens.

(Translated from French)