Four Hungarian Films Show in Seville

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The Man From London

Árpád Bogdán's Happy New Life, Csaba Bollók's Iska's Journey and János Szász's Opium - Diary of Madwoman will all be on the programme. Béla Tarr's The Man From London will wrap up the festival.

 
Also on the programme will be a Serbian-Hungarian-German co-production by director Srdan Golubovic entitled The Trap.
 
Árpád Bogdán's debut Happy New Life is based on events in the director's life. It shows a young Roma man, raised a ward of the state, in search of his identity.
 
Iska's Journey shows the difficulties of life growing up on the streets. Bollók shot the film in the autumn of 2005 after researching the lives of homeless children living in a mining region in the Southern Carpathians for four years. The film won the top award at the 38th Hungarian Film Week in February.
 
Opium - Diary of a Madwoman is based on a book of the same name by the Hungarian physician and writer Géza Csáth. Csáth based the book on a study of one of his own patients. The film premiered at the 38th Hungarian Film Week, where it won the Foreign Critics' award as well as the award for best director and best cinematographer.
 
The Man From London is a rendering of Belgian crime writer Georges Simenon's novel of the same name. The screenplay was written by Tarr and his long-time collaborator László Krasznahorkai, one of Hungary's greatest living authors.
 
Georges Simenon's son John Simenon has called the film a "brilliant exercise in style which is at once harsh and difficult," adding that the film "deeply touched" him.
 
Like Tarr's earlier films, The Man From London is filmed in black and white. It stars the Czech actor Miroslav Krobot and the UK's Tilda Swinton. The film's cinematographer is Fred Kelemen, and music for the film is composed by Tarr's long-time collaborator Mihály Vígh.