Featured Films of the 1st Hungarian Film Festival in Manila 2017
The Embassy
of Hungary in the Philippines and Shangri-La Plaza are proud to present the
first Hungarian Film Festival in Manila on 1-2 December 2017. The event will
showcase four critically acclaimed films never before screened in the
Philippines.
Son
of Saul (Saul fia)
(2015, feature, 35mm, color, 107 minutes)
First feature
First feature
October 1944, Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Saul Ausländer is a Hungarian member of the
Sonderkommando, the group of Jewish prisoners isolated from the camp and forced
to assist the Nazis in the machinery of large-scale extermination.
While working in one of the crematoriums, Saul discovers
the corpse of a boy he takes for his son. As the Sonderkommando plans a
rebellion, Saul decides to carry out an impossible task: save the child's body
from the flames, find a rabbi to recite the mourner’s Kaddish and offer the boy
a proper burial.
Strangled
(A martfűirém)
(2016, feature, digital, color, 123 minutes, cinemascope,
DolbyDigital)
thriller
thriller
Based on real-life events, this psycho-thriller is set in
the provincial Hungary of the 1960s, when a series of atrocious murders shock
the small town of Martfű.
A psychotic killer is on the prowl, who continues to
slaughter young women while an innocent man is wrongly accused and sentenced
for crimes he could never have committed. A determined detective arrives on the
scene and soon becomes obsessed with the case while under pressure from the
prosecutor to see a man hang.
Stuck in the suffocating social, political and
psychological world of socialist Hungary, we soon find ourselves entangled in a
web of intricate conspiracy and disturbing drama.
Kincsem
- Bet on Revenge (Kincsem)
(2017, feature, HD, color, 122 minutes)
drama, romance, adventure, history, feature
drama, romance, adventure, history, feature
Hungarian aristocrat and supreme horse trainer Sandor
Blaskovich is killed by his former friend, Austrian officer Otto von Oettingen,
while arresting him for treason. Von Oettingen takes over the Blaskovich
castle with his young daughter Klara, while Sandor’s orphaned son Ernő has to move to a
poor labourer’s cottage. Ernő cannot forgive Oettingen for taking his father’s
life, land and honour. Years later, he goes on to purchase and train a
magnificent horse Kincsem, which he believes will be his winning ticket to
regaining the family home. The horse grows into an unbeatable champion but is
wild and unruly just as is the woman who also shows a keen interest in Kincsem:
Klara von Oettingen.
Paw (Mancs)
(2015,
feature, digital, color, 92 minutes)
family film
family film
Inspired by
true events, Paw is a story about a rescue dog and his equally
gifted trainer, who together overcome both internal and external obstacles to
achieve international fame, success, and fulfillment. Zoli, a tram engineer,
comes to see the curative role his volunteer rescue work plays in his desire to
help others. Paw’s gift for search and rescue work, under the gifted guidance
of Zoli’s training, brings them both to the calling and accomplishments that
will define them both: as a rescue team. Zoli’s further challenge is to open
his heart to Eszter, whom he loves, but almost loses.
Paw is not an action-driven film; it is a sweet, emotional striptease by ordinary people who achieve heroic levels, day by day. The use of brief animated sequences gives the film a light, humorous and otherworldly touch.
Paw is not an action-driven film; it is a sweet, emotional striptease by ordinary people who achieve heroic levels, day by day. The use of brief animated sequences gives the film a light, humorous and otherworldly touch.
The Embassy of Hungary recently reopened in Manila in March 2017 and is endavouring to provide opportunities to introduce the art, culture and history of Hungary the the Filipino audience. Join us for the first two day festival of Hungarian cinema in the Philippines on 1-2 December 2017. Screenings are free of charge, on a first come, first served basis.
Check the first Hungarian Film Festival 2017 Schedule below:
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