''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 Orbán is not his. Together with her child, she sets out to find Antal, the man who raped her 11 years earlier, Orbán's biological father. She meets Gergely, a friend and accomplice of Antal, who does not recognize her. She seduces and then kills him. Orbán 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
The 59th Berlin International Film Festival was held from 5 February to 15 February 2009. The opening film of the festival was Tom Tykwer’s '' The International'', screened out of competition. Costa-Gavras's immigrant drama '' Eden Is West'' ser ...
in 2009, where it was awarded the
Silver Bear for outstanding artistic contribution (sound design):
György Kovács
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* György Alexits, as a Hungarian mathematician
* György Almásy, Hungarian asiologist, traveler, zoologist and ethnographer, father of László ...
,
Gábor ifj. Erdélyi and
Tamás Székely
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Berlinale. Archive. Prize winners 2009
Retrieved 27 January 2019 It won the European Film Award for European Discovery of the Year in 2009.
References
External links
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2009 films
Films set in Transylvania
Romanian-language films
Hungarian-language films
Films directed by Peter Strickland
European Film Awards winners (films)
Silver Bear for outstanding artistic contribution
2009 directorial debut films