Katalin Varga

United Kingdom, Romania

2009

82 Min

Color

1.85:1

Hungarian, Romanian

Currently 3.6/5 Stars.
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PROD Peter Strickland, Oana Giurgiu, Tudor Giurgiu

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

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)

Synopsis

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

Director

Peter Strickland

He was born in Reading, England in 1973. He made several Super 8 and 16mm short films. His most well-known short film, Bubblegum, brought Andy Warhol superstar, Holly Woodlawn out of a long hiatus and screened at Berlin in 1997. He also founded the musique-culinary group, The Sonic Catering Band in 1996 with friends from Reading, releasing several records and performing live throughout Europe. Katalin Varga is his first feature film. He now lives in Hungary where he teaches English. —TIFF