KMH and Kocsis’ Adrienn Pál look to Europe
Having first attracted attention in the 2006 Cannes Critics’ Week with Fresh Air [+see also:
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Produced by Ferenc Pusztai (Producer on the Move 2007 – see interview) for KMH Film, the film’s 40-day shoot will kick off in Hungary in September.
The title is set to receive co-production support from France’s Cinema Defacto (Tom Dercourt), Austria’s FreibeuterFilm (Oliver Neumann) and Dutch company Isabella Films (Els Vandervorst) and will be made on a total budget of around €1.5m.
Written by the director, Adrienn Pál retraces the wanderings of a nurse who goes mad from being surrounded by so much death and sets off in search of a long-lost childhood friend. Gathering her recollections, she embarks on a journey full of paradoxes, of her own memories and of the people she encounters.
While her search does not lead her quite where she intended, her life will never be the same again nonetheless. Adrienn Pál is a film about the relativity of memory, the uncertainty of our past and above all, self-discovery.
KMH Film produced Kocsis’ debut feature, as well as the feature debut of another young graduate of the Budapest Film School: Attila Gigor’s thriller The Investigator.
The latter - which scooped four awards at the 2008 Hungarian Film Week (Best Genre Film, Best Actor for Zsolt Anger, Best Screenplay and Best Editing) – was made on a budget of €640,000 and was a European co-production with Anagram Produktion (Sweden) and Fastnet Films (Ireland).
International sales on The Investigator are being handled by Scandinavian company Trust Film Sales and Budapest Films will release the film domestically at the end of September.
(Translated from French)
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