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Director: Áron Mátyássy Screenplay: Áron Mátyássy Director of photography: Máté Herbai Editor: Zoltán Kovács Music: Syrius, Veronika Harcsa, Albert Márkos Sound: Gábor Balázs Costumes: János Breckl Production manager: Csaba Pék Producer: István Bodzsár Production company: Unio Film Cast: József Kádas, Teréz Vass, Eszter Földes, Attila Kasvinszki, Marianna Szalay, Attila László, Zoltán Géczi, Zoltán Újvári, József Varga, Csaba Czene, Mari Csomós, Andor Lukáts, Zsolt Anger, Zoltán Rajkai
1997, somewhere near the border in Eastern Hungary. This is where Iván, a car mechanic lives with his sister Eszter, who is a young woman with autism. Iván earns some extra money by smuggling diesel oil across the border.
One day Eszter is raped by a stranger in the nearby forest. The police investigation leads nowhere and even becomes a burden for Iván. After the traumatic event Eszter carries on living her life as she used to but becomes mute, refusing to speak to anybody. Iván falls in love with Ilus, a girl from his village, who just finished her school leaving examination and will move to another town as she has gained admission to a university.Soon Iván finds himself alone. His plans seem to have failed and the police warn him to give up his oil smuggling. By this time Iván has stumbled across some revelations connected to Eszter's rape, however, he has no intention of going back to the police but instead decides to take the law into his own hands.
Festivals: 2010 - Bergamo Film Meeting 2010 - Cleveland International Film Festival (in competition) 2010 - Cluj-Napoca Transilvania 2010 - Guadalajara International Film Festival 2010 - Helsinki Love & Anarchy International Film Festival 2010 - Lagów International Film Festival 2010 - London East End Film Festival 2010 - Vilnius International Film Festival 2009 - Athens PANORAMA (in competition) 2009 - Budapest Hungarian Film Week (in competition) 2009 - Cairo International Film Festival 2009 - Chicago International Film Festival (in competition) 2009 - Denver International Film Festival 2009 - Ghent Flanders International Film Festival (in competition) 2009 - Haifa International Film Festival 2009 - Istanbul Rendez-Vous 2009 - Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (in competition) - East of the West 2009 - Mannheim International Film Festival (in competition) 2009 - Montreal The World Film Festival (in competition) - First Film Competition 2009 - Vancouver International Film Festival 2009 - Warsaw International Film Festival
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