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Katalin Varga (film)
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Wikipedia article
'Katalin Varga' is a 2009 film directed by Peter Strickland.
The feature debut of Peter Strickland, he used the money from a bequest from his uncle to fund the project. Filmed over 17 days in the Hungarian-speaking part of the Romanian region of Transylvania, Strickland completed the project for 28,000.
Plot
Katalin Varga's husband discovers that their son Orbn is not his. Together with her child, she sets out to find Antal, the man who raped her 11 years earlier, Orbn's biological father. She meets Gergely, a friend and accomplice of Antal, who does not recognize her. She seduces and then kills him. Orbn befriends Antal, both unaware of their blood ties. Antal is now a happily married man, and Katalin strikes up an intimate friendship with his wife. On a boating trip she confronts them both about the events which occurred 11 years earlier.
Accolades
The film was in the competition for the Golden Bear at the 59th Berlin International Film Festival in 2009, where it was awarded the Silver Bear for outstanding artistic contribution (sound design): Gyrgy Kovcs, Gbor ifj. Erdlyi and Tams Szkely.[https://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/2009/03_preistr_ger_2009/03_Preistraeger_2009.html Berlinale. Archive. Prize winners 2009]. Retrieved 27 January 2019 It won the European Film Award for European Discovery of the Year in 2009.
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