An old lady jumps off an apartment building in Budapest. Instead of a horrible death, she picks up the pieces of her broken glasses and walks up the stairs. As she climbs each floor, kaleidoscopic stories taking place in the building’s seven rooms are shown on the screen.
About the film
Details
- Running time
- 1 hr. 29 min.
- Country, year
- Hungary, France, South Korea, 2014
- Genre
- Drama
- Language
- Hungarian
- Subtitles
- Lithuanian, English
- Age rating
- N/A
Credits
- Director
- György Pálfi
- Screenplay
- György Pálfi, Zsófi Ruttkay
- Cinematography
- Gergely Pohárnok
- Music
- Amon Tobin
- Cast
- Piroska Molnár, Miklós Bened, Tamás Jordan, Krisztina Jankovics
- More information
- www.imdb.com
Festivals and awards
- in competition, Best Director, Special Prize of the Jury, Europa Cinemas Label Award.
Director
György Pálfi
György Pálfi was born in 1974 in Budapest. After shooting experimental films in the late 1980s, he attracted international attention with his feature debut Hukkle (2002), winning a European Film Award as Discovery of the Year. His film I Am Not Your Friend was in competition at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival in 2009. He was recognized as a promising director as Taxidermia (2006) and Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen (2012) were invited to Cannes.
