The film featuring János Kulka and Gabriella Hámori won the best award at the international film festival. Director Péter Fazakas personally received the Violetta d'Argento award The Game at the Parma Film Festival.
The Italian International Film Festival was held for the 11th time last week. In its justification for the Hungarian film shown in the competition program, the professional jury praised the
"excellent direction and acting, the perfectly cohesive unity of image and music".
The play is a sequel to the 2011 The Exam , whose well-known characters returned to the screen in the roles of János Kulka, Zsolt Nagy, Gabriella Hámori and Péter Scherer. Viktória Staub joined the cast as a new main character.
The story of the game
The story of Péter Fazakas' film takes place in Budapest in 1963. State security officer András Jung has a perfect life, he lives happily with his wife, Éva. The only thing standing in the way of his promotion is a competitive colleague, Kulcsár. When the legendary spy Pál Markó emerges from the past in connection with an unsolved case, a merciless duel begins. Nobody and nothing is what it seems, and a single human gesture can cost the protagonist's life.
Last year, János Kulka won the Best Actor, Gabriella Hámori the Best Supporting Actor, and Gábor Balázs the Hungarian Motion Picture Award for his performance in the play. In the spring, at the Porto film festival, Zsolt Nagy was awarded the best actor award for his performance in the film, while Norbert Köbli was awarded the best screenplay award.
The game was produced by Film Positive and produced by Tamás Lajos. The film can be found online at FILMIO on THIS LINK , you can read how you can watch the movies on FILMIO.
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