Hajdu said shooting Bibliothéque Pascal was not without stress, but that may have contributed to the film.
"There were few days when we could work in peace, and when there was calm, things got boring. I cut the slow parts out of the film. I found that the stress and the tension did good for the material from a certain point of view," he said.
The film's story follows a migratory path from the Black Sea across Transylvania to the Atlantic Ocean. Hajdu said the hero of his film, who is forced into sex slavery, ends up in Liverpool because the city is "one of the legendary centre of crime and prostitution".
"Besides, I love Liverpool's empty spaces. It reminds me of my hometown Debrecen. Quiet, but a little insidious," Hajdu said.
Hajdu will take his film to Berlin on February 17.
"I hope Bibliothéque Pascal will be well received in Berlin," Hajdu said. "Winning the foreign critics' award at this year's Film Week suggests it will," he added.
Hajdu said he is preparing to make a new film which will be the first part of a trilogy based on Sádor Tar novellas.
Source: Hungarian News Agency (MTI) / Photo: MTI
