SUNSET
O.V in Hungarian subtitled in Spanish and English
Laszlo Nemes (winner of the Oscar and the Grand Jury Prize at Cannes for Son of Saul) won the Fipresci at Venice with Sunset. The young, tormented Irisz Leiter arrives in Budapest in 1913, in the weeks prior to the outbreak of the First World War, and when the Austro-Hungarian Empire is collapsing. Determined to rescue her parents’ ill-fated business, she soon discovers that there is more to be revealed in her family’s past than she had thought. A film that is at once a thriller, a sensorial experience, a period drama and a work with a definite political character, a new tour de force from Nemes.
Direction: László Nemes
Script: László Nemes, Clara Royer, Matthieu Taponier
Cinematography: Mátyás Erdély
Editing: Matthieu Taponier
Music: László Melis
Sound: Tamás Zányi
Cast: Juli Jakab, Vlad Ivanov
Production: Gábor Sipos, Gábor Rajna, François Yon, Nicolas Brigaud-Robert, Valéry Guibal.
Production Company: Laokoon Filmgroup, Playtime
László Nemes
Budapest, 1977. After studying History, International Relations and script writing, he was assistant to Béla Tarr. He directed several short films, among them With a Little patience (2007), nominated for the EFA awards and a winner at IndieLisboa and Zinebi, The Counterpart (2008) and The Gentleman Takes His Leave (2010). His first feature film, produced in 2015, was the multi-award winning Son of Saul. With it, he won the Oscar and the BAFTA for Best Foreign Language Film, and also four awards at Cannes (including the Grand Jury Prize and the Fipresci Award) and several dozen more awards. Atardecer, his latest film, had its premiere in Venice, where it won the Fipresci Award.