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Just the Wind
Just the Wind
7.3
/10
349 Ratings

JUST THE WIND

Csak a szél

Directed by Benedek Fliegauf
Hungary, Germany, 2012
Drama

Synopsis

News quickly spread of the murder of a Romany family in a Hungarian village. The perpetrators have escaped and nobody claims to know who might have done it. Another Romany family living close by tries to get through the day after the attack. Yet their hope of escaping the madness proves illusory.

Synopsis

News quickly spread of the murder of a Romany family in a Hungarian village. The perpetrators have escaped and nobody claims to know who might have done it. Another Romany family living close by tries to get through the day after the attack. Yet their hope of escaping the madness proves illusory.

Our take

This prizewinning psychothriller from Hungarian director Benedek Fliegauf is suffused with taut, preemptive foreboding. A striking work of social criticism, Just the Wind was inspired by shocking real-life events, and offers an uncompromising vision of hatred and hope.