Budapest Film release myriad of titles
This is a busy autumn for Hungarian distribution company Budapest Film. After their successful release of Kornel Mundruczo’s Delta [+see also:
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film profile] (which screened at Cannes) on September 11, the company launched two Hungarian debut features: off-beat thrillers The Investigator by Attila Gigor (October 2) and Para by Péter Fazakas (October 16).
Non-domestic European films also feature on the company’s slate, with Dutch director Anton Corbijn’s Control [+see also:
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Today, Budapest Film are single-handedly releasing UK director John Maybury’s The Edge of Love [+see also:
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Mario the Magician stars Hungarian and Italian actors Franco Nero, Julia Nyakó, Zoltán Mucsi, Ági Szirtes, Tibor Gáspár, József Gyabronka, Anna Fehér, Lili Monori, Attila Egyed, Vittorio Marsiglia and Zsolt Trill. The film is set in a peaceful Hungarian village left untouched by the changes brought about by the collapse of the Eastern Bloc in 1990.
One day, a friendly Italian shoe manufacturer (Nero) arrives in a luxurious car in order to set up a factory. Production quickly gets underway and the women in the village pounce on this work opportunity, with one of them even falling in love with the boss. But the disruption of local life ends in tragedy.
European films dominate the line-up of new releases hitting Hungarian screens this Thursday, with Spanish director Julio Medem’s Chaotic Ana (distributed by Odeon) and Mark Herman’s UK/US co-production The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas [+see also:
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On the other hand, the box office is monopolised by US titles. Among them is Gábor Csupó’s animated film Immigrants – co-produced by Hungarian companies Megafilm and Grand Allure Entertainment – which claimed fourth place in the rankings after its first week-end on release.
(Translated from French)
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