Pulsation

Treasure City

Békeidő

Swiss Premiere

Szabolcs Hajdu / Hungary, Romania, Switzerland, United Kingdom / 2020 / 92 min / Drama
Hungarian / Subtitles English

A city in Hungary at night. Characters cross paths, meet each other, insult each other, break up and fall in love, while around them creeping fascism takes over the country. A masterfully orchestrated film-mosaic, coupled with scathing social satire.

“As if anything were possible: ugliness grows closer to beauty and vice versa, ruthlessness to weakness.” (Thomas Bernhard) With the megaphone: “We are here today because the first party in the country is dismantling our institutions. While you proclaim that you are protecting us from terrorism, 2000 people committed suicide last year.” In the shape of a jigsaw puzzle, this sharp, hard-hitting work questions our sick society on the edge.

Direction

Szabolcs Hajdu

Screenplay

Szabolcs Hajdu, Krisztián Csákvári

Image

Csaba Bántó

Editing

Szabolcs Kovari

Sound

Attila Sebestyén

Music

Freakin' Disco

Production

Látókép Production (Jim Stark), Art-Játék Association (Szabolcs Hajdu), Látókép Production (Orsolya Török-Illyés)

Co-production

Filmtett (Bálint Zágoni), Sovereign Films (Andreas Roald), Bord Cadre (Dan Wechsler), Jamal Zeinal-Zade

With

Szabolcs Hajdu, Orsolya Török-Illyés, Orsolya Tóth, Nóra Rainer-Micsinyei, Lujza Hajdu, Fanni Wrochna, Panna Dominika Bíró, Lilla Sárosdi, Árpád Schilling

International sales

Bord Cadre (Dan Wechsler)