A MEDIA Salles - Magyar Filmunió

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Films in
Production
Diana Groó
Csoda Krakkóban / A Miracle in
C r a c o w
Producer: Gábor Garami, Production
company: Cinema Film, Katapult Film
— Studio Tor (Poland), Chaplin Film
Shooting: September 2003—
April 2004, Cracow, Budapest
Expected completion: April 2004
It is a story of PIOTR, a young Jewish man
who was raised up to the age of 10 in
Budapest by his beloved grandmother. An
Eastern European story spiced with myst
i q u e .
Attila Mispál
A fény ösvényei / Paths of Light
Producer: Péter Miskolczi, Production
company: Eurofilm Studio
Shooting: November 2003—
May 2004, Budapest, Kecskemét
Expected completion: August 2004
Two parallel stories are linked in this film:
two terrible losses and two parallel healings.
Krisztina Deák
Miskolci Boni és Klájd / Who Hell Is
Boni and Klájd
Producer: Gábor Garami, Production
company: Cinema Film
Shooting: August 2003—
January 2004, Miskolc
Expected release: October 2004
C O M M I N G S O O N
Cinema adaptation of an actual crime story
based on a novel published by M a g v e t ô
Publishing Company.
István Szabó
Júliának lenni / Being Julia
Producer: Lajos Óvári, Robert Lantos,
Production company:
Movie SPC, I. S. L. Film
Shooting: June—August 2003, Budapest,
Kecskemét, London
Expected completion: autumn 2004
The film takes place in 1938 in England.
Protagonist is the celebrated actress in her
early forties, whose professional and private
successes we are witnessing in the film.
Márta Mészáros
A temetetlen halott — Nagy Imre
naplója / The Unburied Man — The
Diary of Imre Nagy
Producer: Attila Csáky, Michal
Kwiecinski, Igor Hudec, Production
company: Cameofilm, AKSON STUDIO
(Poland), ARS MEDIA (Slovakia)
Shooting: July—December 2003, Hungary,
S l o v a k i a
Release: 23 r d October 2004
A bad joke of history is that while Imre
Nagy’s name is known and respected in the
whole world, in his homeland his role is still
debated. They often judge him for reasons
of petty daily political fights. This film tries
to cast a new light on the fate of the Prime
Minister, Imre Nagy, who died as a martyr.
Gábor Forgács
Szelek háza / The House of Storm
Producer: József Cirkó, Production
company: HCC Media Group & Parabel
S t u d i o
Shooting: from October 2004, Budapest,
H u n g a r y
Expected completion: November 2004
Intimate film with a few characters. It
builds upon inner experiences, memories,
almost creating a subjective point of view.
The film prefers extreme close-ups, especially
for those objects, where a scent
impression is important, relevant and
p o s s i b l e .
Krisztina Goda
CSAK SZEX és más semmi / The Itch
Producer: Gábor Kálomista, Production
company: Megafilm
Shooting: June—July 2004
Expected completion: December 2004
What should a woman do if she is over thirty,
is fed up with men and is grabbed by an
insatiable desire to have a baby?… The
answer will be revealed in this riveting, nice
film full of acrid humour, which is not only
for singles.
Bertalan Bagó
Vadászat angolokra / Hunting for
E n g l i s h m e n
Producer: László Schmidt, Production
company: Vid Art Studio, TVP SA
( P o l a n d )
Shooting: June—August 2004, Hungary:
Budapest, Poland: Krakow, Warsaw
Expected completion: December 2004
It is 1839. The characters in our story are
deputies in the Hungarian parliament of the
period, the Pressburg Diet. They are gathered
for a hunt. Other members of the party
include Whitewell, an English engineer living
in Pressburg, and a beautiful Polish girl,
who has fled the suppression of the revolution
in her country. Whitewell, an idealist,
inventor and adventurer, has a secret
romantic affection for the young lady, but
some say the real reason for his presence is
to send covert reports back to British
Foreign Secretary Lord Palmerston.
Péter Bergendy
Állítsátok meg Terézanyut! / Stop
Mommy Theresa!
Producer: István Bodzsár, Production
company: Unió Film, RTL Klub
Expected completion: June 2004
Expected release: December 2004
An adaptation of Zsuzsa Rácz’s top list
book Stop Mummy Theresa!
Roland Vranik
Fekete Kefe / Capra Hircus
Producer: Katalin Krammer,
Production company: Strawberry
F i l m s
Shooting: from January 2004, Budapest,
Tatabanya, Tata
Expected completion: December 2004
The topic of our film is the lost generation
of our present, those 25–35 year old people
who grew up after the political changes.
Three friends work as chimney sweepers,
a theologian, a painter and a sculptor.
Róbert Koltai
Világszám — Dodó és Naftalin /
Colossal Sensation — Dodo and
N a p h t h a l e n e
Producer: Gábor Koltai, Production
company: Filmsziget
Shooting: March—May 2004, Romania,
H u n g a r y
Expected release: December 2005
Clown S h l o m ohas twins in a traveling circus
company at the beginning of the 1900s.
Following in the footsteps of their father,
the boys become popular circus-artists. …
What kind of answers can we give to the
challenges „history” presents us with interfering
again and again with our personal
l i v e s ?
Péter Gárdos
Az igazi Mikulás / The Real Santa
Producer: Dénes Szekeres, Production
company: Tivoli-Filmproduction,
Equinox Film (Germany), Söz Film
Gösterim Yapim (Turkey)
Shooting: November 2004—January 2005,
Hungary, Poland
Expected completion: December 2005
1990: God and the Devil make a bet on the
soul of a bar pianist with a derailed life —
then comes an 8-year-old girl and turns the
odds around in a day.
Róbert Adrian Pejó
D a l l a s
Producer: László Kántor, Andreas
Bareiss (Germany), Helmut Grasser
(Austria), Production company: New
Budapest Filmstudio, MTM-Medien
und Television München (Germany),
Allegro Film (Austria)
Shooting: August—December 2003,
Rumania, Hungary
Expected release: February 2005, 36
Hungarian Film Week
The characters in D a l l a s are poor people,
living on the margins of society. Through
their attitude to problems they teach us
how little one needs be happy.
Szabolcs Hajdu
Fehér tenyér / White Palms
(working title)
Producer: Iván Angelusz, Péter Reich,
Production company: Katapult Film
Shooting: August—September 2004,
Hungary, Canada
Expected release: February 2005, 36
Hungarian Film Week
The stars of two talented gymnasts are rising
parallelly. One tries to fulfil his dreams
between the hands of a sadistic, authoritarian
coach in Debrecen, a drab Central-
t h
t h
European small town before the political
changes, the other in Calgary, Canada
under the most optimal circumstances possible
to assist his professional career. Their
greatest dream is to get to the World
Championship or the Olympic Games.
Tibor Szemzô
Csoma legendárium / Csoma’ Legend
Producer: György Durst, Production
company: Mediawawe 2000, Duna TV
Shooting: September 2003—
July 2004, India
Expected release: February 2005, 36
Hungarian Film Week
„A great many books and films have discussed
Sándor Kôrösi Csoma’s trip, his oeuvre
and his scientific and linguistic
significance. I do not wish to provide yet
another biography or yet another interpretation,
although the script has been
inspired by moments of his life and his
fate.” Tibor Szemzô
Gábor Dettre
Romazsaru / Romacop
Producer: László Kántor, Andreas
Bareiss, Karl Baumgartner (Germany),
Production company: New Budapest
Filmstudio, MTM-Medien und
Television München, Pandora Films
Shooting: May—November 2004, Hungary
t h
Expected release: February 2005, 36
Hungarian Film Week
The film follows the story of a successful
police investigation. Its protagonist is a
sub-lieutenant of Gypsy origin with a
degree in law who does his job mostly as a
lonely hero. Because of his origin and his
wife who has come home to live from
America he becomes the target of social
prejudice. This is aggravated by a police
case in which the suspect happens to be a
Gypsy as well…
Ágnes Incze
Randevú / Rendez-vous
Producer: Zsuzsanna Hollósi G., Gábor
Varga, Production company: Filmplus
Shooting: from autumn 2004, Budapest
Expected completion: February 2005, 36
Hungarian Film Week
A heart-rending story of the friendship
among an overweight angel, a merry
homeless auntie and a sexy nurse in the
style of the new millennium, this is the
second film by the director who made
„ I ♥ B U D A P E S T ” .
László Kántor
Önmagunkról másképp / Crossover
( d o c u m e n t a r y )
Producer: László Kántor, Production
company: New Budapest Filmstudio
Shooting: 2002—2004
Expected release: February 2005, 36
Hungarian Film Week
The documentary outlines the way of
transmission of a message. The graphic
artist, the sand drawer and the dancer are
testing the possibilities of communication
with their own methods but with the com-
t h
t h
t h
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