Hukkle - the village
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Hukkle - the village |
| Original title | Hukkle |
| Country of production | Hungary |
| original language | Hungarian |
| Publishing year | 2002 |
| length | 75 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | György Pálfi |
| script | György Pálfi |
| production |
Csaba Bereczki , András Böhm |
| music |
Balász Barna , Samu Gryllus |
| camera | Gergely Pohárnok |
| cut | Gábor Marinkás |
| occupation | |
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Hukkle - The Village is an experimental Hungarian crime film by György Pálfi from 2002. The premiere in Germany took place on April 24, 2003.
action
In a Hungarian village, an old man struggling with hiccups sits down in front of his house with a jug of milk. He observes everyday life in the village. A young man drives a horse-drawn cart full of milk cans past him. Normally the young man would clean the milk cans, but he feels disturbed by a girl sitting in the sun. A threshing machine works. A cat is poisoned and dies. An old woman plows her field, killing a mole that she gives to her dog. A farmer leads his boar to a sow. The two owners happily watch the copulation. The men of the village try to kill the time. The old man continues to have the hiccups.
The village seems idyllic, but strange things happen. Women trade in bottles that contain an unknown liquid. Every now and then a resident dies. The whole village comes together and comforts the widow. Everything seems harmless and life goes on after the funeral. When a fisherman disappears, the village police chief orders an investigation, but nothing happens. Men keep disappearing from the village. At the end of the film there is a wedding where some girls sing an old folk tune that reveals the secret of the village. With the help of a poison mixture, the women gradually kill the men of the village.
Reviews
“Without a single line of dialogue, the film condenses into a school of seeing and hearing that makes the beauty of the inconspicuous understandable. An innovative and entertaining debut film, which ties in with the rich traditions of the film country Hungary. "
"An innovative cinema hiccup in the mainstream ventilation of Hollywood."
"Courageous first work, which has rightly been recognized by many international juries."
“One may admit to the film that it not only shortens country life to pure idyll and also shows the factory work that it does not dissolve the threading plot at the end, but leaves in the balance that it is above all interesting individual studies by different objects succeed. But nevertheless, with his cinematic overzealousness, his unreflective hostility to language and his pathos of reality, he ends up where Gloria Swanson ends in "Sunset Boulevard": in a stubborn misunderstanding of reality, in the trap of clichés. "
Awards
The film started at many film festivals in 2002 and won several awards. He won four prizes at the Festival of Young Eastern European Cinema in Cottbus , was named European Discovery of the Year at the European Film Awards , won the Golden Firebird in Hong Kong in 2003 and the Golden Rose in Sochi .
background
The budget of the first Hungarian film shot using Dolby Digital was around 100,000 US dollars.
The film manages without any dialogues. For this, director Pálfi, who is presenting the thesis of his studies at the Budapest Film Academy , placed the noises of the environment in the foreground.
The performers are laypeople. Pálfi shot in the Hungarian town of Ozora and hired the locals to act .
DVD publications
Home Vision released the film on DVD on July 26, 2005 (ABN: B0009KQPBE).
Web links
- Hukkle - The village in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Michael Wilmington in the Chicago Times (English)
- Overview , Stephen Holden in the New York Times (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hukkle - The Village. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ http://www.cinema.de/film_aktuell/filmdetail/film/?typ=inhalt&film_id=403068
- ↑ http://www.cineclub.de/filmarchiv/2003/hukkle.html
- ↑ http://www.filmtext.com/start.jsp?mode=2&lett=h&archiv=14 ( Memento from October 23, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0289229/business