Country: Hungary, Germany
Year: 2010
Duration: 111'
bibliothèque pascal Mona Paparu is Hungarian who lives in Romania. On the beach of the Black Sea she runs into two escaped convicts, who take her hostage. The woman is seduced by one of the two men and spends the night with him, but he is killed the next morning by the police. Mona finds she is pregnant and gives birth to Viorica. The little girl is three years old when her mother embarks on an odyssey that takes her first to Germany and then to England, among whorehouses and criminals. She is forced to leave her young daughter with a relative. When the social services take her away, Mona is forced to tell her whole story in order to get her child back. “I doubt there is a film in which an object, picture, sentence, or scene would not rise to the level of metaphors. There will be scenes I can explain and ones I would never expect anyone to analyze in this or that way. I could write these down, talk about them, analyze these pictures, but I might be depriving them of their essence or mystery. I believe that the real desire to tell a story lives inside you only until you are able to preserve these enigmas.”
Biography
film director
Szabolcs Hajdu
Szabolcs Hajdu (Debrecen, Hungary, 1972) studied theater and film at the University of Budapest. Right from the 1990s he was a film and TV actor, as well as a theatrical director. His first feature film, Macerás ügyek (2000), won the Special Jury Prize at the Molodist Film Festival in Kiev. In 2006 he made the autobiographical film Fehér tenyér, which won a special mention at the Festival of Karlovy Vary; it also won the Gran Prix at the Hungarian Film Week and participated at the Cannes Film Festival in the section Quinzaine des réalisateurs.
FILMOGRAFIA
filmografia essenziale/essential filmography
Necropolis (cm, 1997), Kicsimarapagoda (cm, 1998), Macerás ügyek (Sticky Matters 2000), Tamara (2003), Fehér tenyér (White Palms, 2006), Off Hollywood (tv, 2007), Bibliothèque Pascal (2010).
Cast
& Credits
regia, sceneggiatura /director, screenplay
Szabolcs Hajdu
fotografia/cinematography
András Nagy
montaggio/film editing
Péter Politzer
scenografia/production design
Mónika Esztán, Péter Mátyássy
costumi/costume design
Krisztina Berzsenyi
musica/music
Burnt Friedmann, Atom, Flanger
suono/sound
Gábor Balázs
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Orsolya Török-Illyés (Mona Paparu), Oana Pellea (Rodica), Razvan Vasilescu (Gigi Paparu), Andi Vasluianu (Viorel), Shamgar Amram (Pascal), Lujza Hajdu (Viorica), Ion Sapdaru (il guardiano/Guardian), Mihai Constantin (Gicu)
produttori/producers
Iván Angelusz, András Hámori, Gábor Kovács
produzione/production
Filmpartners, Katapult Film
coproduzione/coproduction
Gilles Mann Filmproduktion, M&M Film, Sparks, Tv2
vendita all’estero/world sales
H2O Motion Picture
