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Happy New Life

Feb 1, 2007 · 1h 20m
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Árpád Bogdán's debut film seduces you with stylized visuals and an intensity that gives you an insight into the director's mind. His profound knowledge of the subject is evident throughout a film that is bereft of sex and violence. There is a poetic feel to the images that include a horse running wild on the streets of Budapest before it is caught and led into a horse trailer. The sequence is an eerie symbolic reminder of earlier visuals in the film of the young boy fleeing from parents/elders being arrested by police with the mother figure urging the child to run before he himself is caught and taken to an orphanage, psychologically scarred...(c) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0944188/reviews

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CAST

Lajos Orsós
Michaela Göczi
Zsolt Kovács
István Szilvási
Roland Tzafetás
Ágnes Daróczi
Lívia Kursinszki
Directed by Árpád Bogdán

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Status
Released
Original language
HU
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Production
Laokoon Filmgroup
Country
HU
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