Katalin Varga

2009
1 Std. 22 Min.

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7,0/10

3115

IHRE BEWERTUNG

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

3115

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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7/10

There are no parts...

Great, atmospheric effort from Strickland. I can only imagine he had some affinity with this part of Romania whether from childhood or other. The soundtrack and some of the slow lingering shots (esp. the scene looking at child, mother and horse not moving from behind, and the forest shot) were very affecting, and reminded me of Tarkovsky (not in a bad way ;)I got to thinking of the inextricable nature of all things, of how everything (as a single glorious 'entity') was so deviously and religiously bound up that to even attempt to extract something from it was tantamount to destructuring the whole (and thus destroying its royalty). That a film can inspire me (it has to be said not single-handedly)to such ends is indicative of a deep metaphysical quality within it.There is a particular sentence that the man utters towards the end of the film that resonates deeply towards this metaphysis. I shan't explicate it, nor even repeat it, but you shall know it when you hear it.

Thanks for this Strickland, and all who were involved in and outside it (even the guy who carted the extra film stock when, presumably, you ran out ;) 'Ultimately, there are no parts at all.' Fritjof Capra, The Web of Life.