The lives of three different people cross when a neo-Nazi group fatally attacks a Roma camp in Hungary: A boy whose mother is killed in cold blood, a girl who lapses into silence when she realizes that one of her loved ones is involved in the crime, and a young female lawyer who is forced to defend in court one of the perpetrators, are experiencing a cosmogony, even if their world as they know it seems to come to an end. A delicate narrative thread weaves the myth of Genesis, drawing upon real instances of racial violence.
Greek Premiere
Arpad Bogdan
Born in 1980, Árpád Bogdán lived in a children’s home from the age of four. He started working as an actor and stage director in theaters during his college years. He organized creative forums for disadvantaged children, using various aspects of art. His feature film debut, Happy New Life, premiered at the Berlinale, where it received Special Mention from the Manfred Salzgeber Jury, and collected a number of awards in its festival tour around the world.
Filmography
2002 Utvesztoben | Labyrinth (short)
2003 Utem Es Fogalom | Rhythm and Notion (short)
2006 Boldog Uj Ejet | Happy New Life
2008 Ghetto Balboa (documentary)
2018 Genezis | Genesis
2003 Utem Es Fogalom | Rhythm and Notion (short)
2006 Boldog Uj Ejet | Happy New Life
2008 Ghetto Balboa (documentary)
2018 Genezis | Genesis
Genesis
Genezis
Screening Schedule
No scheduled screenings. |
- Direction: Arpad Bogdan
- Script: Arpad Bogdan
- Cinematography: Tamás Dobos
- Editing: Péter Politzer
- Sound: Gábor Császár
- Music: Mihály Víg
- Actors: Anna Marie Cseh, Milán Csordás, Enikő Anna Illési, Lídia Danis, Levente Molnár, Zsolt Kovács, Tamás Ravasz, István Szilvási, Szofi Berki
- Production: Mirage Film & Gábor Ferenczy, FocusFox
- Producer/Producers: Andrea Taschler
- Art Direction: Kata Kővári
- Costumes: Szófia Ferencz
- Format: DCP
- Color: Color
- Production Country: Hungary
- Production Year: 2018
- Duration: 120΄
- World Sales: MNF (Magyar Nemzeti Filmalap), filmalap@filmalap.hu
