Just the Wind ( Csak a szél )

Just the Wind (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Csak a szél
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Berlin International Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
German ( Subtitles )
Hungarian ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )

Product Origin/Format:
Germany ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
98 min + 40 min extras

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Making Of
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 2012 and produced in:
France ( France, Benelux )
Germany ( Germany, Central Europe )
Hungary ( Russia, Eastern Europe )

Directed By:
Benedek Fliegauf

Written By:
Benedek Fliegauf

Actors:
Katalin Toldi ..... Mari
Gyöngyi Lendvai ..... Anna
Lajos Sárkány ..... Rió
György Toldi ..... Grandfather
Gyula Horváth ..... Ali
Attila Egyed ..... Policeman Géza
Gergely Kaszás ..... Father
Zsolt Végh ..... Janitor
Emese Vasvári ..... Auntie Rózsi
Máté Tóth ..... Carping Man at Pub 1
Franciska Töröcsik ..... Gothic
Laszlo Cziffer ..... Policeman Laci
Kálmán Csurár ..... Polgárör fönök
Gyula Jungwirth ..... Playstation guy
Károlyné Katalin Szakály ..... Teacher

Synopsis:

This spare, naturalistic drama centers on a Romany family from an isolated village where five other such families were gunned down in their own homes. At a time when Hungarian politics are taking an increasingly nationalistic turn, the pic's frank acknowledgment of the country's entrenched racism appears especially brave.

News quickly spreads of the murder of a Romany family in a Hungarian village. The perpetrators have escaped and nobody claims to know who might have committed the crime. For another Romany family living close by, the murder only serves to confirm their latent, carefully repressed fears. Far away in Canada the head of the family decides that his wife, children and their grandfather must join him as soon as possible. Living in fear of the racist terror that surrounds them and feeling abandoned by the silent majority, the family tries to get through the day after the attack. By nightfall when darkness descends on the village the family pushes the beds closer together than usual. Yet their hope of escaping the madness proves illusory. Based on an actual series of killings in Hungary that claimed the lives of eight people in less than a year, Bence Fliegauf portrays the pogrom-like atmosphere which breeds such violence. The camera stays hot on the heels of the protagonists, making the breathless escalation of events physically palpable.

Unknown racist murderers have already attacked four families. Some of them died. Who will be the next on this ordinary day? Inspired by a true story.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 25 February, 2014.

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