Country: Austria
Year: 2002
Duration: 75'


An old man has hick-ups sitting on a bench, a drunken youth snores on the carriage, a kindly old lady picks lillies of the valley, women sew in the dressmaker's shop, men play bowling in a pub, the bee keeper spins the honey, a mechanical harvester harvests the wheat, which in the mill will be made into flour, and then in the grandma's kitchen into dumplings ñ and throughout all this the policeman investigates a murder...

"In my project, the descriptive and idyllic elements are combined and edited in a rhythmic sequence. An old man continuously hiccups, which creates a sort of tale, while the real story unfolds. His hiccupping gives rhythm to all the other sounds, which unite to form a cinematographic noise-based symphony. In the end, the sequence of all the idyllic scenes produces a serious conflict, a secret, a tragedy" (G. P·lfi).

Biography

film director

György Pálfi

György Pálfi (Budapest, Hungary, 1974) joined the Hungarian University of Drama, Film and Television in 1995. There, he directed several short films. His first feature Hukkle, made in 2002, was invited to more than hundred international film festivals worldwide and won several recognitions including EFA’s European Discovery 2002 - Fassbinder Award. In 2006 his second feature Taxidermia has received numerous awards at the 37th Hungarian Film Week in Budapest.

FILMOGRAFIA

The Fish - Ichthys (cm, 1997), Devil’s Knot, the 7th Room in the Knock-Knock (cm, 1999), Round and Round (cm, 1999), Hukkle (2002), ShaMan vs. Ikarus (cm, 2003), Taxidermia (2006), I Am Not Your Friend (2009), Final Cut - Ladies & Gentlemen (2012), Freefall (2014)


Cast

& Credits

Director: György Pálfi.
Soggetto e sceneggiatura: 
Zsófia Ruttkay.
Director of photography: Gergely Pohárnok.
Music: Balázs Barna, Samu Gryllus.
Editor: Gábor Marinkás.
Sound: Tamás Zányi.
Cast and characters: Ferenc Bandi (Csuklik Bácsi), Józsefné Rácz (Bába), Ferenc Nagy (Méhész), Gábor Nagy (Városi Kisfiú), Ági Margitai (Ági Margitai).
Productor: Csaba Bereczky, András Böhm.
Production company: Mokép, Bajcsy-Zsilinszky ut 7, H-1054 Budapest, Hungary, tel. +36-1-2673026, fax +36-1-2673149, www.hukkle.hu.
Foreign sales agent: Magyar Filmunió, Városligeti fasor 38, Budapest  H1068, Hungary, ph. +36-1-351 7760, - fax +36-1-3526734, e-mail filmunio@filmunio.hu, www.filmunio.hu

TFF

prizes

HOLDEN AWARD 2002

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