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| Endre Hules |
The Maiden Danced to Death marks Hules?s debut as a film director. The Oscar-winning cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond helped make the film together with Bea Melkvi, Zsolt László and the Honvéd dance troupe.
The film is about a rivalry between two brothers, Steve, who returns to his native Hungary from Canada after 20 years, and Gyula, who stayed at home, working with the same dance company they started together years earlier and now married to Steve?s former sweetheart Mari.
"Leaving the place one grew up in -- whether it's a small town or the country, or even a religious or ideological community -- means severing ties to a certain degree. It changes us, and we view what we left behind from a different perspective. It also makes us strange and suspicious -- somewhat of a traitor -- in the eyes of those who stayed. This is universal," Hules says of the film.
Source: Hungarian News Agency (MTI)
