HUNGARIAN BEAUTY
by Péter Gothár
synopsis
As was the case in Sam Mendes' film American Beauty, this "Beauty" features a disintegrating family. Andras is a food technician who has tired of his wife, Margo, and is looking for a bit of adventure. He finds some with one of his teenage daughter Erna's girlfriends. Erna, meanwhile, takes up with the shy son of a neighbor, Orosz, a former Russian officer who stayed on in Hungary after the country gained its political independence. While Margo has a liberating affair with a younger man, Andras and the girl young enough to be his daughter experience a disappointing and frustrating relationship.
international title: | Hungarian Beauty |
original title: | Magyar szépség |
country: | Hungary |
year: | 2003 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Péter Gothár |
film run: | 112' |
release date: | HU 24/08/2006 |
screenplay: | Péter Gothár, Pál Závada |
cast: | Dorottya Udvaros, Gábor Máté, Gabriella Hámori, Ági Szirtes, Anna Szandtner, Iván Fenyö, Enikö Börcsök, Ernõ Fekete, Sergei Ruskin, Réka Pelsőczy |
cinematography by: | Tamás Babos, Francisco Gózon |
film editing: | Anna Kornis |
art director: | Berta Csikszentmihályi, Péter Gothár, Zsolt Khell |
costumes designer: | János Breckl |
music: | András Lovasi, György Orbán |
producer: | Jozsef Berger, István Kardos |
production: | Mythberg Films, Duna Workshop (Duna Mühely) |