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International Shorts Section

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Botond Aszalós

5 MINS / HUNGARIAN / HUNGARY / 2023 / DRAMA, ACTION

Synopsis

When a Jewish woman aged 30 makes her young son pee on the wharf of the Danube river in the night of mid-forties Budapest, the end approaches fast. The fascist Arrow Cross Party Officer plays with them with particular cruelty as they are the members of a group that is about to be shot dead into the river soon.

Cast & Crew

CAST:
Eszter Banfalvi
Sebestyen Suto-Pataki

WRITER:
Botond Aszalós

PRODUCERS:
Krisztina Wéber

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY:
Péter Virág

Director's Biography

Botond Aszalós is a Cinematographer, Director born in 1968 in Budapest. He worked for Hungarian Public Television as a camera operator and camera assistant until 1991. He participated in the making of Stalin, the Hungarian-American co-production of HBO in 1993, shot by the Oscar-winner Vilmos Zsigmond. By 2003, he began freelancing as a film director, cinematographer, and camera operator, mainly in foreign productions.

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