Katalin Varga (film)
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Genre Crime, Drama, Thriller Duration Director Peter Strickland Initial DVD release February 22, 2010 | 7/10 IMDb Initial release October 7, 2009 (France) Running time 1h 24m | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Writer Peter Strickland (screenplay) Music director Steven Stapleton, Geoff Cox Cast Hilda Peter (Katalin Varga), Tibor Palffy (Antal Borlan), Fatma Mohamed (Wife), Norbert Tanko (Orban Varga), Laszlo Matray (Zsigmond Varga)Similar movies Related Peter Strickland movies | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Katalin Varga is cast out of her home when her husband discovers that her son Orban is not his. Taking Orban with her, Katalin sets out on a long journey to track down and punish the men who raped her 11 years earlier.
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Katalin Varga is a 2009 film directed by Peter Strickland.
The directorial 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.
In the beautiful, otherworldly Carpathian Mountains a woman is traveling with a small boy in a horse and cart, looking to punish those who once abused her. For years, Katalin has been keeping a terrible secret. Hitchhiking with two men, she was brutally raped in the woods. Although she has kept silent about what happened, she has not forgotten, and her son Órban serves as a living reminder.
Plot
Katalin Vargas husband discovers that their son Orban is not his. Together with her child, she sets out to find Antal, the man who raped her 11 years earlier, Orbans biological father.
She meets Gergely, a friend and accomplice of Antal, who does not recognize her. She seduces and then kills him.
Orban 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. Strickland was a nominee for the Golden Bear. It won a Silver Berlin Bear in the category outstanding artistic contribution for the sound design: Gyorgy Kovacs, Gabor ifj. Erdelyi and Tamas Szekely.
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