Country: Hungary, France, Germany
Year: 2007
Duration: 135'
Maloin works as a shunter in a train station near the sea. One night, while working, he witnesses a fight between two men that ends up in a homicide and a runaway assassin. When he goes to pick up the deceased’s suitcase, Maloin discovers that it’s full of money and finds himself unwillingly involved in a dangerous situation that will force him to find a way out, as he maneuvers between the police investigations, the murder’s search for the lost suitcase and his difficult relationship with his wife and adolescent daughter. “Maloin’s story is our story. Personally I feel it particularly as my own, familiar and close, unfriendly and harsh, just like the surroundings in which it is played out.The film’s tone is thus personal, each frame reflects how I see the world and through its simplicity of style, I am trying to bring to life the complexity of Maloin’s working-class surroundings, with as much authenticity and affection as possible […] I am convinced that Maloin’s story belongs to all that have the courage to preserve their human dignity.”
Biography
film director
Bela Tarr
Béla Tarr (Pécs, Hungary, 1955) debuted in 1977 with Family Nest and in the same year began his studies in the Hungarian School of Theatrical and Cinematic Arts. Between 1980 and 1981 he realized The Outsider and The Prefab People and in 1982 he worked on the television adaptation of Macbeth. After 1984’s Almanac of Fall, he began working with the novelist László Krasznahorkai for 1988’s Damnation. Between 1990 and 1994 he released Satantango, an epic and famous movie, and in 1995 directed Journey on the Plain. After a long silence, in 2000 he released Werckmeister Harmonies and between 2000 and 2005 he worked, with many production problems, on The Man from London.
FILMOGRAFIA
Családi tuzfészek (Family Nest, 1977), Hotel Magnezit (cm, 1978), Szabadgyalog (The Outsider, 1979-80), Panelkapcsolat (The Prefab People, 1982), Macbeth (1982), Oszi almanach (Almanac of Fall, 1983-84), Kárhozat (Perdizione, 1987), City Life - Az utolsó hajó (City Life - The Last Boat, cm, 1989), Satantango (1990-94), Utazás az alföldön (Journey on the Plain, video, 1995), Werckmeister harmóniák (Le armonie di Werckmeister, 1997-2000), Prologus (Prologue, cm, 2004), A Londoni Férfi (The Man from London, 2007).
Cast
& Credits
regia/director Béla Tarr
sceneggiatura/screenplay László Krasznahorkai, Béla Tarr
soggetto/story dal romanzo di/from the novel L’homme de Londres by Georges Simenon
fotografia/director of photography Fred Kelemen
costumi/costume design János Breckl
montaggio/film editor Ágnes Hranitzky
musica/music Mihály Víg
suono/sound György Kovács
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters Miroslav Krobot (Maloin), Tilda Swinton (Mrs Maloin), Erika Bók (Henriette), János Derzsi (Brown), Ági Szirtes
(Mrs Brown), István Lénárt (Morrison)
produttore/producer Gábor Téni, Paul Saadoun, Miriam Zachar, Joachim von Vietinghoff, Christoph Hahnheiser
produzione/production T.T. Filmmuhely, 13 Production, Cinema Soleil, Von Vietinghoff Filmproduktion, Black Forest Films
distribuzione, vendita all’estero/distribution, world sales Fortissimo Film
sceneggiatura/screenplay László Krasznahorkai, Béla Tarr
soggetto/story dal romanzo di/from the novel L’homme de Londres by Georges Simenon
fotografia/director of photography Fred Kelemen
costumi/costume design János Breckl
montaggio/film editor Ágnes Hranitzky
musica/music Mihály Víg
suono/sound György Kovács
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters Miroslav Krobot (Maloin), Tilda Swinton (Mrs Maloin), Erika Bók (Henriette), János Derzsi (Brown), Ági Szirtes
(Mrs Brown), István Lénárt (Morrison)
produttore/producer Gábor Téni, Paul Saadoun, Miriam Zachar, Joachim von Vietinghoff, Christoph Hahnheiser
produzione/production T.T. Filmmuhely, 13 Production, Cinema Soleil, Von Vietinghoff Filmproduktion, Black Forest Films
distribuzione, vendita all’estero/distribution, world sales Fortissimo Film