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Bolshe Vita
(Bolse Vita)
(1995, feature film, 35mm, colour, 97 min.)

Director: Ibolya Fekete
Screenplay: Ibolya Fekete
Photography: András Szalai
Zene: Ferenc Muck
Producer: István Dárday
Cast: Yuri Fomichev, Igor Chernievich, Alexei Serebriakov, Ágnes Máhr
  Caroline Loncq, Helen Baxendale

This acclaimed, multiple-award-winning film centers around a group of young people who meet
in a rock pub in Budapest in the summer of 1989 during Hungary's fleeting celebration of
Communism's fall. This Pynchonesque crew includes two goofy Russian musicians, an engineer
who has been reduced to selling kitchen knives, and two girlfriends, English and American, in
search of action. After the fun and romance, they must move on, as the mafia and the onset of
new nationalist chaos closes in.
In Hungarian and Russian with English subtitles.

Prizes:

Berlin PRIX EUROPA
1996:  European Parliament's Special Prize

Budapest Hungarian Film Week
1996:  Best First Film
Gene Moskovitz Prize

Cottbus FilmFestival
1996:  Main Prize
International Film Club Association Prize

Lagów International Film Festival
1996:  Golden Grapes Prize

London Film Festival
1996:  Satyajit Ray Prize

Sochi International Film Festival
1996:  Grand Pearl Prize
FIPRESCI Prize

Angers Premiers Plans
1997:  Main Prize
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