Director - Szabolcs Hajdu
Script - Szabolcs Hajdu, Nándor Lovas, Jim Stark
Camera - András Nagy
Music - Billy Martin
Cast - Isaach De Bankolé, Razvan Vasilescu, Orsolya Török-Illyés, Dragos Bucur, Tamás Polgár
Producers - Gábor Kovács, Andrea Taschler
Fleeing from the police after fixing a match, Francis, an African football player (Isaach De Bankolé), seeks refuge in a ranch run by a local crime boss in the middle of the vast Hungarian plains known as the „pusta”. He soon realizes that the workers on the ranch are little more than slaves. His presence on the ranch begins a chain of events that culminates in violent rebellion by the workers against their criminal overlords. A reluctant hero, Francis finds himself playing in the most important match of his life, with his freedom and his very life at stake.
„Szabolcs Hajdu is one of the few truly personal voices left in contemporary Hungarian cinema after the retirement of Bela Tarr, filters his view on his country through fable and association. Mirage is mysterious, dreamlike, at times almost surreal. In its own subtle way it is a story about racism, equality, and dictatorship that sees Hajdu returning to the themes of repression and exploitation explored in his last two films, White Palms and Bibliothèque Pascal. Isaach de Bankolé contributes to the deliberately unsettled atmosphere in his role as the protagonist: incongruous, alien, and finally disruptive.”
Piers Handling, Toronto FF
„Szabolcs Hajdu is one of the few truly personal voices left in contemporary Hungarian cinema after the retirement of Bela Tarr, filters his view on his country through fable and association. Mirage is mysterious, dreamlike, at times almost surreal. In its own subtle way it is a story about racism, equality, and dictatorship that sees Hajdu returning to the themes of repression and exploitation explored in his last two films, White Palms and Bibliothèque Pascal. Isaach de Bankolé contributes to the deliberately unsettled atmosphere in his role as the protagonist: incongruous, alien, and finally disruptive.”
Piers Handling, Toronto FF
Program
- 19.03.2025
LISZT INSTITUTE - 18.30 часа
