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SHOWTIMES<br />
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WORLD<br />
CINEMA<br />
FEATURE<br />
PARTY<br />
SEE PAGE 7<br />
INCLUDED<br />
LIZA, THE FOX-FAIRY LIZA, A RÓKATÜNDÉR<br />
EAST COAST PREMIERE<br />
Director: Károly Ujj-Mészáros<br />
W<br />
Hungary / 2015 / 98 min / DCP /<br />
Hungarian w/English sub-titles<br />
Fox-fairies are evil demons from Japanese folklore,<br />
who rob men of their lives. Liza, a 30-year-old<br />
nurse, goes in search of love, but her ill-fated admirers<br />
all die on their first date.<br />
Liza has taken care of Marta, widow of the former<br />
Japanese ambassador, for the last 12 years. Liza’s<br />
only companion is her imaginary friend, Tomy Tani,<br />
the ghost of a Japanese pop singer from the 1950s.<br />
It’s her birthday, and so Liza goes to a Mekk<br />
Burger’s to find romance. While she’s away, Marta<br />
dies. Jealous relatives report Liza to the police for<br />
murdering Marta to inherit her apartment. Sergeant<br />
Zoltan is put on the case. The policeman rents a<br />
room from Liza so he can keep a closer eye on his<br />
suspect. Zoltan secretly repairs a stack of faulty fittings,<br />
very nearly gets killed in the process, and<br />
falls slowly in love with Liza. Liza gains confidence<br />
and begins to look better when she takes tips from<br />
a women’s magazine, but all her dating efforts end<br />
in fatal accidents orchestrated by Tomy Tani. Liza<br />
is convinced that she has become a fox-fairy, a<br />
deadly demon from Japanese folklore. The battle<br />
for Liza’s life begins between the mysterious pop<br />
singer and Sergeant Zoltan.<br />
A peculiar and poignant comedy set in a fictionalized<br />
1970s Hungary with a capitalist system… Liza,<br />
The Fox-Fairy is a sarcastic fairy tale for grownups.<br />
Screenplay: Bálint Hegedűs, Károly Ujj-Mészáros /<br />
Director of Photography: Péter Szatmári /<br />
Editor: Judit Czakó / Music: Dániel Csengery, Ambrus<br />
Tövisházi / Producer: István Major / Production<br />
Company: Filmteam / Principal Cast: Mónika Balsai,<br />
Szabolcs Bede-Fazekas, David Sakurai, Piroska<br />
Molnár, Zoltán Schmied<br />
Contact: Vajda Katalin, kati.vajda@filmunio.hu<br />
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lizaarokatunder<br />
Karoly as a small town boy had little knowledge of his future as a teenager, so to gain some time to think he enrolled the Budapest University of Economics,<br />
where he finally met an extraordinary art-form – film.<br />
That fatal meeting made him a filmgeek, and wrote his final thesis on American film industry...<br />
With his university degree he started as a production runner, then soon became a location manager. He joined Saatchi<br />
and Saatchi Budapest as a production assistant. He was one of the first freelancer agency producers of Hungary, he<br />
worked for almost all the major international network agencies in Hungary.<br />
He never gave up his ambition to become a director. His weird sense of humor and emotional touch can be witnessed in<br />
his more than 150 commercials, and also in his 10 short-films that won several national and international awards.<br />
His relentlessness and persistence finally made possible for him to shoot his first feature film, Liza, the Fox-fairy, is a funny<br />
fairy tale for grown ups..<br />
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