KMH Film: Utóélet (Afterlife) — Zomborácz Virág DVD with English Subtitles

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Product Details:

• Product Type: DVD (PAL)
• Brand / Label: KMH Film
• Title: Utóélet (Afterlife)
• Director: Zomborácz Virág
• Writer: Zomborácz Virág
• Starring: Kristóf Márton, Gálffi László, Csákányi Eszter, Petrik Andrea, Gyabronka József, Anger Zsolt
• Release Year: 2015
• Genre: Hungarian Comedy-Drama (dark comedy)
• UPC / EAN: 5999546337501

Product Features

• Format: DVD
• Discs: 1
• Runtime: approx. 93 minutes
• Region: 2 (PAL)
• Aspect ratio: 16:9 (1.85:1)
• Audio: Hungarian Dolby Digital 5.1
• Subtitles: English
• Rating: 16 (not recommended under 16)
• Condition: Very Good (VG) — used, as pictured

Overview

Utóélet is a quietly absurd coming-of-age story about a young man who can't stop worrying — least of all about living up to his father, the village pastor. When the controlling old man dies of a heart attack before he can push his son into church life, Mózes feels something close to relief. Then his father's ghost shows up at the wake and refuses to leave, visible to no one but Mózes.

What follows is tender, funny and strange in equal measure. Mózes sets about trying to free himself from the haunting — with help from a spiritualist mechanic and the late pastor's assistant — in a film that balances real warmth against its black-comic premise. Director Zomborácz Virág, working from her own script, gives the whole thing a grounded, socio-realist texture that critics abroad and at home picked up on.

The film travelled widely on the festival circuit, winning Best Film at Valladolid and audience awards at Bergamo and Ceau, Cinema!, with acting prizes for its leads. For collectors of contemporary Hungarian cinema, this is a well-regarded recent title — and one of the rarer editions to carry full English subtitles.

Interesting Facts

• Utóélet premiered in the East of the West competition at the 49th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.
• It won Best Film at the 2014 Valladolid International Film Festival and Audience Awards at Bergamo and the Ceau, Cinema! Pocket Film Festival.
• Márton Kristóf and László Gálffi each took Best Actor honours — Kristóf at Vilnius and Gálffi at the Hungarian Film Critics Awards.
• It is the debut feature of writer-director Zomborácz Virág.
• The Hollywood Reporter described it as an accomplished, blackly comic fable with a socio-realist edge.
• The story unfolds partly in a striking stilt-house village built over water, lending the film its distinctive look.

Bonus Material

• Theatrical trailer
• Scene selection
• Making-of featurette (werkfilm)

This is a feature film, not a music release, so there is no track listing.

Publishers

Hungarian rights held by KMH Film Kft.; Hungarian edition © 2015 KMH Film, distributed by Fantasy Film Kft. Produced by Pusztai Ferenc; written and directed by Zomborácz Virág. Produced with the support of TV2.

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