POST MORTEM by Péter Bergendy
A post-mortem photographer and a child face ghosts in a haunted village, right after the First World War.
Hungary, 2020, 115’
As a result of the destruction caused by World War I and the Spanish Flu, countless spirits have become stranded in our world. Tomas, the young, wandering, post mortem photographer, ends up in a small Hungarian village during the freezing winter of 1918, after meeting a ten year-old orphan girl, Anna. After a few supernatural events, he decides to investigate the ghosts' intentions and will find a way to get free of them. The little girl accompanies Tomás's exciting exploration through all its dangers, but they find no clear answers; all the while, the spirits wreak greater havoc as each moment passes.
Script Péter Bergendy (story), Gábor Hellebrandt (story), Piros Zánkay (screenplay)
Cinematographer András Nagy
Editor István Király
Sound designer Gábor Balázs
Music composer Attila Pacsay
Set designer Balázs Hujber
Costume designer János Breckl
Creative producer Gábor Hellebrandt
Producer Ábel Köves, Tamás Lajos / Szupermodern Stúdió
BIOGRAPHY
Péter Bergendy is a Hungarian director, born in 1964. He got his first camera from his grandfather at the age of six. From that moment film became part of his life. Originally graduated as psychologist, where he wrote his thesis on horror film psychology. For ten years he was the editor-in-chief of the Hungarian issue of German Cinema Magazine, he worked as academic researcher for the Hungarian Film Institute, also as editor and director in Hungarian television. For 25 years now he's been ditched in Hungarian and international commercial directing, his multiple award-winning commercials are shown across the world. As a director, his first feature film, a romantic comedy 'Stop Mom Teresa!' was released in 2004 achieving national and international recognition for him. His cold war spy film noir 'The Exam' (2011) has won New Directors Gold Hugo, in Chicago International Film Festival 2012. His next thriller, "Trezor" (2018) was the first ever Hungarian tv-film nominated for International Emmy Award in 2020. Currently Peter is working on his feature film 'Post Mortem' which is due to be finished by autumn 2020 – apparently the first Hungarian horror ever made.
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