On 10 August, Ádám Császi began filming his second feature, Three Thousand Numbered Pieces. Revealed in the Panorama section of the 2014 Berlinale with Land of Storms [+lire aussi :
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Written by Ádám Császi and Balázs Lengyel (Lajko: Gypsy in Space [+lire aussi :
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According to Ádám Császi, the film’s main sources of inspiration are Federico Fellini’s  8 ½ and Ruben Östlund’s The Square [+lire aussi :
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fiche film]. It is also worth noting that the film’s provisory title (Ando Drom) is a reference to Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, in the sense that it is a portrait of a lost generation.

Produced by István Bodzsár for Uniofilm Entertainment, Three Thousand Numbered Pieces benefits from support from the National Film Institute Hungary. Filming will take place until 15 October in the Hungarian capital at the New York Boscolo Hotel, the Parisi Court Hotel and at the Budapest Operett Theatre, but also in Ózd (at Hétes telep) with Balázs István Balázs handling the cinematography (winner of the IMAGO 2020 award). Distribution in Hungarian cinemas will be handled by Mozgó Mozi and international sales by NFI World Sales.

For the record, Uniofilm Entertainment also features in its recent filmography The Butcher, The Whore and the One-Eyed Man [+lire aussi :
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