New films in 2008. Vol. 2.

In February 2009 Hungarian Film Week will take place for the 40th time.

Film.hu compiled a list of films that have been recently shot and are expected to be released in the next six months.

Szabolcs Hajdu: Bibliotheque Pascal

The film is about a Romanian woman called Mona Galdó, who lives a very special life. At the beginning she is drifting with the current, and very strange things happen to her. She gives birth to a baby girl, who has a special gift inherited from her father: her dreams are projected on reality. Mona is roaming around aimlessly with her child, earning her living as a casual entertainer. After meeting his believed to be missing father, she abandons her child and finds herself in London in a luxury whorehouse known as the library of Pascal. Here she becomes the object of the intellectuals’ desires, the captive and puppet of the owner Pascal’s sick mind. The most difficult task of her life is to get away from here. There are two more sequences to be shot.






















Cast: Orsolya Török Illés, Lujza Hajdu, Oana Pelea, Razvan Vasilescu, Mihai Constantin, Andi Vasluianu,
Production company: Katapult Film, Filmpartners
Production cost: appr. 600 million HUF
Expected release date: beginning of 2009
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György Pálfi: Paradise/Pater Noster

The first part of the film is a documentary about children 3-4 years of age using techniques usually applied in nature films. Paradise portrays the kids’ first three months in kindergarten. The second part is called Purgatory: people talk about themselves during an audition (Pálfi interviewed more than 200 people a few years ago), and a fictional film with no script, based on the improvisation of nine characters analysing the relation of man and society, entitled Hell was also made.





















Production company: Eurofilm Stúdió
Cast: Csaba Czene, amateurs
Production cost: 40 million HUF
Expected release date: not known
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Tamás Keményffy: Fluke

The film Fluke is a satire of the inhabitants of a little village, whose life is turned upside down by a divine wonder or rather a simple crime. Ógyarmat is a poor dead-end village located near the Austrian-Hungarian border. One day, however, fortune smiles upon the villagers. After discovering an oil pipeline under the cemetery, they drill a hole in the pipeline and start to sell oil. To disguise the illegal business, they hold fake funeral ceremonies. And money keeps flowing in. They are all happy and satisfied. As long as everybody starts to sell oil on their own account, offering lower prices than the others. But troubles never come singly. A representative of the oil company turns up in the village to settle the problems, but the villagers expel the crisis manager straight in the hands of the police. The villagers desperately fight for the oil, and want to keep their flourishing business safe. They even develop a marvellous plan to resist the authorities. But marvellous plans always fail…

Cast: István Gyurica, Kati Lázár, Felix Theissen, Lorant Deutsch, Vica Kerekes, Károly Tóth, Jenő Kiss, Miklós Kapácsy
Production company: Extremfilm
Production cost: 250 million HUF
Expected release date: 23rd October 2008.
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Bence Gyöngyössy: Papírkutyák

The famous Kabay and Gyöngyössy duo are back; the director wrote the script together with Gergely Litkai scriptwriter of Buhera Matrix, the film was photographed by Tamás Sas director of Nine and a Half Dates, and the music was composed by Gábor Berkes. Two habitual petty criminals Kuplung and Csumpi from Subcarpathia, trying to make both ends meet, often get involved in illegal businesses. When they are put under arrest for a tiny mistake, Kuplung and Csumpi meet a man called Darab in their cell, who weighs 150 kilos and stands two meter tall. They enter into conversation, recall the past, which may also influence some future happenings… 




Cast: Zoltán Mucsi, Péter Scherer, Géza Vaskó, Péter Kállóy Molnár, József Szarvas, Steve Hajdú, Gerda Pikali
Production company: Európa 2000 Kft.
Production cost: not known
Expected release date: December 2008.
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Pater Sparrow:  1

The film is based on a review of a non-existing book written by Stanislaw Lem, which is part of one of his short story entitled One Human Minute. By means of his own visual language Pater Sparrow tries to find out (or asks) how to play intelligently.



Cast: Zoltán Mucsi, Pál Mácsai, Vica Kerekes, Balázs Czukor, Zoltán Balázs, Máté Haumann
Production company: Honeymood Film's
Production cost: appr. 180 million HUF
Expected release date: Film Week 2009
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Hatvani Balázs: Thelomeris

Another Hungarian partisan-independent film. Balázs Hatvani – best known for his short film Script – has attempted the impossible this time: he is making his first feature entitled Thelomeris, investing his own resources. The science fiction movie made in Philip K. Dick style is about human fate and the relation of self-determination and the greater powers.




Cast: György Dörner, József Kerekes, Ottó Viczián, Péter Rudolf
Production company: Tricorn Production
Production cost: 120 million HUF
Expected release date: not known
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Walter Carvalho:  Budapest

The film entitled Budapest, which is the adaptation of a bestseller with the same title, is made in Brazilian-Hungarian co-production. The protagonist, who publishes popular books under the name of others, lives in Rio de Janeiro with his wife and son, until Budapest fascinates him.




Cast: Leonardo Medeiros, Gabriella Hámori, Antonelli Giovanna, Canelas Ivo
Production company: Eurofilm Studió, Nexus Cinema ét Video, Stopline Films
Production cost: appr. 570 million HUF
Expected release date: February 2009.
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