(Hungary, Germany, France 2017, 129’)
Regia / Direction: Kornél Mundruczó
Sceneggiatura / Screenplay: Kornél Mundruczó, Kata Wéber
Produttore / Producer: Viola Fϋgen, Michel Merkt, Viktória, Petrányi, Michael Weber
Interpreti / Cast: Merab Ninidze, Zsombor Jéger, György Cserhalmi, Mónika Balsai, Majd Asmi,
Fotografia / Cinematography: Marcell Rév
Musica / Music:Jed Kurzel
Scenografia / Set Designer:Márton ÁGH
Montaggio / Editor: Dávid Jancsó
Produzione / Producer Company:KNM, Match Factory Productions, Proton Cinema, Pyramide Films, ZDF/Arte
Distribuzione / Distributor (Italia): Movie Inspired
Aryan is a Sirian refugee who is trying to enter into Ungary from Serbian border, together with his father and many other fellow citizens in the same situation. Both he and his father loose their documents and get separated when the group of migrants is caught by border patrol.
Hit by several gun shots from policeman László, instead of dying, Aryan finds out that he is able to fly. Once he falls back to earth, he gets arrested and brought to the hospital of the closest refugee camp. There he meets Gábor Stern, a man with an obscure and troubled past that he is trying to make up for by selling medical reports to refugees, who, once sent to Budapest’s hospital for further checks, could have later tried to escape.
When Gábor visits him, Aryan starts levitating, drawing the doctor’s curiosity and interest so intensely that he comes up with the idea of using the boy as an assistant during his spiritual healing consultancies, in order to convince patients about the practice’s benefits. In exchange the doctor commits to give half of the earnings to Aryan, who intends to track down his father. Their plans get complicated when they find out that Aryan’s father’s identity has been stolen by a terrorist. The two of them will have to meet once again with policeman László.
Kornél Mundruczó is a Hungarian theatre and film director. His first film This I wish and nothing more was favourably welcomed, winning Best Film award at 31st Hungarian Film Week. His second feature film Pleasant Days wins the silver leopard at Locarno’s Festival in 2002. In 2005, Mudruczó screens one of his films, Johanna, at Festival de Cannes for the first time, in Un Certain Regard section. His fourth film Delta (2008), as his fifth Tender Son (2010), was selected at Festival de Cannes and won FIPRESCI award. In 2014, Mudruczó’s White God won first award for Un Certain Regard section at 67th Festival de Cannes. Recently, in 2017, the director’s talent has been recognized once again at Festival de Cannes, that selected his last work Jupiter’s moon.
