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Katalin Varga

United Kingdom, Romania

2009

82 Min
Color
1.85:1
Hungarian, Romanian
  • Currently 3.7/5 Stars.
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DIR Peter Strickland

PROD Peter Strickland, Oana Giurgiu, Tudor Giurgiu

SCR Peter Strickland

DP Mark Gyorl

CAST Hilda Péter, Tibor Pálffy, Norbert Tankó, Melinda Kantor, Sebastian Marina

ED Matyas Fekete

MUSIC Steven Stapleton, Geoffrey Cox

SOUND György Kovács, Gábor Erdélyi, Tamás Székely

Berlinale (Competition): Outstanding Artistic Contribution, São Paulo (Perspective), CPH PIX: New Talent Award, Karlovy Vary (Horizons), Edinburgh, Vancouver, Mar del Plata, Mill Valley (World)

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Banished by her husband and her village, Katalin Varga is left with no other choice than to set out on a quest to find the real father of her son, Orbán. Taking the boy with her under another pretense, Katalin travels through the Carpathians where she decides to reopen a sinister chapter from her past and take revenge. The hunt leads her to a place she prayed eleven years prior she would never set foot in again. —mostra.org

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Maria Poenaru

2Nov11

Life in the countryside with the old ways of justice.

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Vlad C.

21Apr11

Atmosphere, revenge, guilt.

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Pierre

26Feb11

So good! Hilda Peter treads the line between control and unhinged very well.

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Nutter Jr

10Dec10

A revenge story from Romania with powerful performances (especially from the lead Hilda Peter) and vivid direction of Peter Strickland who additionally utilises the score and the surrounding setting as contributing characters to the film. The story unravels in a slow pace whilst the drama builds up to the final retribution.

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Katalin Varga-4 1/2 Stars

By Inner Pattern on June 25, 2010

Katalin Varga is a really interesting take on the revenge film.It’s the directorial debut of a british filmmaker named Peter Strickland. It may come as some surprise that the film is actually in romanian…  read review

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