Twilight

Szürkület

Hungary

1990

105 Min

Black and White

Hungarian

Currently 4.2/5 Stars.
1
2
3
4
5

SCR Friedrich Dürrenmatt, György Fehér

CAST Péter Haumann, János Derzsi, Judit Pogány, Kati Lázár, István Lénárt, Gyula Pauer, Miklós Székely B., László Németh, István Fogarasi, Pál Hetényi, Zsuzsa Erdõsi, József Pethõ, Erzsébet Nagy, Mónika Varga

In this grim story, three murders of young girls are committed in a similar manner, and their bodies are all found in the woods. The only suspect, a young man assumed to be a paedophile, commits suicide during the investigation. A policeman becomes obsessed with solving the mystery of this serial killer and he continues to investigate even after he has been taken off the case. The film is considered one of Fehér’s two masterpieces – the other is The Passion – and is based on a screenplay written by Friedrich Dürrenmatt. —Thessaloniki International Film Festival

Director

György Fehér

Born in 1939. Graduated from the Academy of Theatre and Film Art in 1972 as a director and cameraman. He made his diploma film, an adaptation of Richard III by Shakespeare, for Hungarian television. He has a long television filmography which includes documentaries, opera films, as well as adaptation of works by Shakespeare, Checkov, Dostoievsky and Molière. He was the co-director of Six Bagatelles a series of short feature films by Andras Jeles, Gabor Body, Pal Wilt, Istvan Darday, Bela Tarr. With his first feature film, Szürkület (Twilight) he received Felix Awards and several prizes in Hungarian Film Week, Locarno and Strasbourg Film Festivals. —Festival on Wheels

Wall

Displaying 4 wall posts.

see all

DirtyBee

11Apr12

l wish l saw this in better quality :( mediocre film, but interesting experience nevertheless

Douglas Edric Stanley

5Apr12

I saw this film over twenty years ago. Unbearably beautiful. A trance, basically. The film left a stain, with images wafting in from time to time. Impossible to locate a decent copy. Fehér was at the screening actually. Some idiot in front of me asked for a refund whereas for my money I'd just seen an undeniable masterpiece. :-/ It apparently played at a festival in Rekjavik. Had I known, I'd have booked a flight.