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The Gravedigger (A sírásó) (2010, feature, video, colour, 85 min., Stereo) Director: Sándor Kardos Screenplay: Gábor Németh, Sándor Kardos Director of photography: Sándor Kardos Editor: Ági Mógor Music: Peter Ogi Sound: Rudolf Várhegyi Production manager: Ildikó Kovács, Gábor Karle Producer: András Muhi Co-producer: M&M Film Production company: Inforg Stúdió Cast: Mari Törőcsik, István Anga-Kakszi, Alina Papp, Géza Bereményi, György Báron, István B. Gellér Ever since I started making films it has bothered me in a certain sense that film images are far too concrete, because technically they try to imitate the sense of space characteristic of everyday life. So the story ignites the imagination only to be slowed down by the images and stops the viewer from taking a flight of fantasy. For example, a film would start off having me believe that I'll see a story about Elizabeth I of England and I would then remember how she was bald, and what clothes she wore, her love for Sir Walter Raleigh, her own feelings and her political conflict... Then the spirit of the film speaks again: stop yourself, don't use your imagination, I'll show you exactly what's what! I have always been searching for an intrinsically different tool in filmmaking. One that could record space in its temporal progression. I would never have thought it existed! Sándor Kardos   Based on The Gravedigger by R.M. Rilke Festivals: 2011 - Kaunas International Film Festival 2011 - Leeds International Film Festival (in competition) 2011 - Syracuse International Film Festival (in competition) 2011 - Torún Plus Camerimage 2011 - Wroclaw New Horizons International Film Festival (in competition) 2010 - Salerno International Film Festival (in competition) 2010 - Split Film Festival