Picture to download Prizes: 2000 - Sochi International Film Festival Jury's Special Prize 1999 - Budapest Hungarian Film Week Best Actor: Károly Eperjes

One Winter Behind God's Back (Egy tél az Isten háta mögött) (1999, feature, 35mm, colour, 105 min.) Director: Can Togay Screenplay: Can Togay Director of photography: Sándor Kardos, Gábor Balog Editor: Ágnes Ostoros, Marie France Poulizac Music: János Másik Sound: Thomas Gauder, Pierre Mertens Visual design: István Ocztos, Piroska Szabady Costumes: János Breckl Production manager: Gábor Újházy, Viera Rezniczkova Producer: Nicolas Meyer, László Sipos, Jean-Paul DeKiss, Kálmán Balogh Production company: RTBF, 47ème Paralèlle (Paris), Hungarian Television, Nelka Films, Magic Media, Magellan Production Cast: Matej Matejka, Florence Pernel, Yevgeny Sidikhin, Dávid Szabó, Anikó Lisztes, Károly Eperjes The story takes place in the year of the Eastern European changes, in a little mountain village, in the middle of nowhere. Radi and Ladu are good friends. They spend all their time together. They roam the countryside, they watch the trucks on the lower highway pass by and what is most important, they go to movies together. All the people in the village are ardent movie-goers. One day the motorist who delivers the films from the center to the mountains has an accident. Children mourn for their friend and the village is left without films. When winter comes the barkeeper discovers long-forgotten film reels in the cellar of the movie-theatre. Ladu and the barkeeper’s wife, Lina, glue the old films together, creating newer and newer stories. In a snow-bond village, cut off the rest of the world, people plunge into a dreamworld. Meanwhile Siniak, the woodcutter, is looking for a chance to be near his childhood love, Lina. Ladu, who likes exciting stories, smells a tragedy...