Guerilla

Guerilla

60th TIFF: Greek Premiere

It’s August of 1849, and the Austrian forces are crushing down the Hungarian rebels, who took up guns to gain independence from the Habsburg Empire. Barnabás is desperately searching for his militant brother amidst a summer landscape inhabited by atrocity and beauty. As he comes across his injured brother’s retreating unit, Barnabás is forced to join the guerillas, carefully withholding that he had avoided the military draft. A pervasive and minimalistic portrait of empty shells of men and women, living on borrowed time, on the edge of looming defeat. A sensorial tale of lingering death, devoid of any pseudo-heroic ambiance.

Screening Schedule

No physical screenings scheduled.


Direction: György Mór Kárpáti
Script: György Mór Kárpáti
Cinematography: Dávid Hartung
Editing: Péter Gábor Duszka
Sound: Gábor Balázs
Music: Asher Goldschmidt
Actors: Gergely Váradi, Blanka Mészáros, Benett Vilmányi
Production: Proton Cinema
Producers: Viktória Petrányi
Co-production: Café Film, Movie Set, Origo Film Group, Prop Club, Visionteam
Costumes: Juli Szlávik
Sets: Adrienn Antal-Fógel
Format: DCP
Color: Color
Production Country: Hungary
Production Year: 2019
Duration: 85΄
Contact: The Match Factory, info@matchfactory.de

György Mór Kárpáti

Hungarian film director and screenwriter György Mór Kárpáti studied at the Directors’ Department of the University of Theater and Film Arts in Budapest. His short films Forest and Provincia have been screened at major international film festivals such as Berlinale and Cannes (Berlinale Shorts and Cinéfondation). Guerilla is his first feature film.

Filmography

2009 Éjfél (short)
2011 Erdö (short)
2014 Provincia (short)
2016 Gólyatábor | Student Union (short)
2019 Guerilla