"An entirely absorbing film."
Peter Bradshaw - The Guardian
TFL Awards
TFL Production Award 2015 (€ 50.000)
festivals & awards
Competition, Venice Film Festival 2018 / FIPRESCI Prize
synopsis
1913, Budapest, in the heart of Europe. The young Irisz Leiter arrives in the Hungarian capital with high hopes to work as a milliner at the legendary hat store that belonged to her late parents. She is nonetheless sent away by the new owner, Oszkár Brill.
While preparations are under way at the Leiter hat store, to host guests of uttermost importance, a man abruptly comes to Irisz, looking for a certain Kálmán Leiter.
Refusing to leave the city, the young woman follows Kálmán’s tracks, her only link to a lost past. Her quest brings her through the dark streets of Budapest, where only the Leiter hat store shines, into the turmoil of a civilization on the eve of its downfall.
info
original title
Napszállta
country
Hungary, France
running time
142’
produced by
Laokoon Filmgroup – Hungary
in co-production with
Playtime – France
directed by
László Nemes
written by
László Nemes, Clara Royer, Matthieu Taponier
sales
Playtime
