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L'HOMME DE LONDRES / A LONDONI FÉRFI |
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Hungary/Germany/France, 2007, approx. 132 min, 35mm, 1:1.66, Dolby SR, English/French
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Director
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Bela Tarr
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Co-director & Editor
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Ágnes Hranitzky
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Producers
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Gábor Teni, Paul Saadoun, Christoph Hahnheiser, Joachim von Vietinghoff, Miki Zacher
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Screenplay
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László Krasznahorkai, Béla Tarr
Based on the novel L’HOMME DE LONDRES by Georges Simenon
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Director of Photography
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Fred Kelemen
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Production Manager
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Jean-Claude Marchant & Pierre Dieulafait
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Art Direction
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László Rajk
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Costume Design
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János Breckl
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Music
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Mihály Vig
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Sound
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György Kovács
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Production Company
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T.T. Filmműhely, 13 Production, Cinema Soleil, Von Vietinghoff Filmproduktion, Black Forest Films
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Miroslav Krobot, Tilda Swinton, János Derzsi, István Lénárt, Erika Bók, Ági Szirtes
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Maloin leads a simple life without prospects at the edge of the infinite sea; he barely notices the world around him, has already accepted the slow and inevitable deterioration of life around him and his all but complete loneliness.
When he becomes a witness to a murder, his life takes a sudden turn.
He comes face to face with issues of morality, sin, punishment, the line between innocence and complicity in a crime, and this state of scepsis leads him to the ontological question of the meaning and worth of existence.
The film is about desire, man’s indestructible longing for a life of freedom and happiness, about illusions never to be realised – about things that give all of us energy to continue living, to go to sleep and get up day after day… Maloin’s story is ours – all of those who doubt and are able to question our humdrum existence.
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