Katalin Varga

2009
1 Std. 22 Min.

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7,0/10

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Banished by her husband and her village, Katalin Varga is left with no other choice than to set out on a quest to find the real father of her son, OrbÃ¡n. Taking OrbÃ¡n with her under another pretence, Katalin travels through the Carpathians where she decides to reopen a sinister chapter from her past and take revenge. The hunt leads her to a place, she prayed eleven years prior, she would never set foot in again.

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Crime Drama Thriller

Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuKatalin, a woman raped in the Carpathian Mountains, seeks revenge with a boy, questioning morality's complexities as she confronts her past.Katalin, a woman raped in the Carpathian Mountains, seeks revenge with a boy, questioning morality's complexities as she confronts her past.Katalin, a woman raped in the Carpathian Mountains, seeks revenge with a boy, questioning morality's complexities as she confronts her past.

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IMDb-BEWERTUNG

7,0/10

3116

IHRE BEWERTUNG

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

Auszeichnungen
- 14 Gewinne & 16 Nominierungen insgesamt

Wissenswertes
The film was shot in Romania in July 2006 for around £25,000 with a small crew of 11 people (including transport and catering). Strickland paid everyone on the 17-days-shoot himself, apart from the focus-puller, who agreed to work for free. The whole crew and the actors lived together in an empty house in a small village in the Carpathian Mountains. After the shoot Strickland ran out of money while editing. He approached many UK production companies, but the reaction was always negative because an obscure film by an unknown director, not even in the English language, seemed to put off all UK investors. Only two Romanian producers, Oana Giurgiu and Tudor Giurgiu, paid attention. They saw Strickland's rough cut and came on board as co-producers, providing the funds to make a proper sound-mix and a blow-up from the Super-16mm negatives to 35mm. It was then invited and shown in competition at the '59th Berlin International Film Festival' in 2009 and won the 'Outstanding Artistic Contribution' award for the creative sound design. Without the Romanian producers, the film would never have been properly finished.

Verbindungen
Referenced in Cowboy (2017)

Soundtracks
The Grave and Beautiful Name of Sadness
excerpts taken from "The Sadness of Thing"

Written by Steven Stapleton and David Tibet
Performed by Steven Stapleton and Geoff Cox

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8/10

A harsh film, but beautiful

The beautiful Transylvanian countryside, where a thin veil of modernity covers a continuing peasant lifestyle for many, is the setting for Peter Strickland's short, unsentimental film 'Katalin Varga' about the aftermath of a rape. It's a quiet movie, strikingly shot, that offers no pretence of life easier than it actually is. To me, it seemed that the reaction of the perpetrator's wife seemed simultaneously slightly overdone (in terms of motivation) and underplayed; one might also suggest that the ending is not especially satisfying, probably because the film never lets us know exactly what it is that Katalin is hoping for. This can be justified, however, because it's completely plausible that the character doesn't know herself. In a nutshell, this is a revenge movie; but so much more interesting that most of what we see in this genre.