Genesis

Genezis

59th TIFF: Greek Premiere

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.

Screening Schedule

No physical screenings scheduled.
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
Producers: Andrea Taschler
Art Direction: Kata Kővári
Costumes: Szófia Ferencz
Format: DCP
Color: Color
Production Country: Hungary
Production Year: 2018
Duration: 120΄
Contact: MNF (Magyar Nemzeti Filmalap), filmalap@filmalap.hu

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