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Hungarian Rhapsodies

TWILIGHT
SZÜRKÜLET

• Director: György Fehér
• HUNGARY / 1990 / DCP / B&W / 100’ / Hungarian; Turkish, English s.t.

• Screenplay: György Fehér
• Original Work: Friedrich Dürrenmatt
• Director of Photography: Miklós Gurbán, Peter Benya, János Kende
• Editing: Mária Czeilik
• Music: László Vidovszky
• Cast: Péter Haumann, János Derzsi, Judit Pogány, Kati Lázár, István Lénárt, Gyula Pauer, Miklós B. Székely, László Németh, István Fogarasi, Pál Hetényi
• Production Co.: Budapest Filmstúdió Vállalat / Mafilm, Magyar Televízió Müvelödési Föszerkesztöség (MTV)
• World Sales: National Film Institute Hungary

1990 Locarno Best Cinematography

György Fehér’s rarely viewed masterpiece which turns detective conventions upside down, is based on motifs from Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s novel The Pledge. In this grim story, three murders of young girls are committed in a similar manner, and their bodies are all found in the woods. The only suspect, a young man assumed to be a paedophile, commits suicide during the investigation. However, a detective believes the actual killer is still alive, so he uses a young girl as bait to catch the perpetrator. Evoking Tarkovsky, Béla Tarr (who was a consultant on this film) and Rumble Fish,a fast-moving plot is instead replaced with fog and gloom in Twilight. The police procedural is observed from a distance with a hypnotic soundtrack, and what remains is a recollection of illusions, obsession, haunting mysticism resulting in pure, cinematic form disguised as nightmarish noir with an apocalyptic atmosphere.

This film is screened as part of the Turkish-Hungarian Cultural Year with the kind contribution of of the Liszt Institute Hungarian Culture Center and the Hungarian National Film Institute.

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.