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Tweet The two Hungarian films in competition at the Berlinale international film festival have won Silver Bears this year, organisers said on Friday. The Silver Bear for Best Director went to Denes Nagy for his debut film Natural Light made in Hungarian-Latvian-French-German co-production. Based on the novel of renowned Hungarian writer Pal Zavada, Natural Light tells the story of Istvan Semetka, a Hungarian farmer who serves as a Sub-Lieutenant in a special unit scouting for partisan groups in WWII occupied Soviet Union. In its statement, the international jury said the film was “appalling and beautifully shot, mesmerising images, remarkable direction and a masterful control of every aspect of the craft of filmmaking, a narration that transcends its historical context. A portrait of war in which the observant gaze of the director reminds us again of the need to choose between passivity and taking individual responsibility.”
A long, slow march toward atrocity. TWITTER Hungarian soldiers in World War II patrol the icy forests of Ukraine in Denes Nagy’s feature debut. Hungary’s most recent contribution to the implacable flow of war films pouring out of Eastern Europe is a far cry from the Russian tank operas and spectacular disaster films like Battle of Leningrad. Denes Nagy’s sensitive first feature Natural Light ( Termeszetes feny), bowing in Berlin competition, is the opposite of these: a slow starter high on atmosphere but low on action, whose horrific main event takes place discreetly off-screen. The story salutes Elem Klimov’s 1985 anti-war masterpiece
Natural Light Review: Fixed Stoicism Shields From the Ravages of War Natural Light Review: Fixed Stoicism Shields From the Ravages of War The immovable face of a Hungarian soldier patrolling Russian forests is meant to convey the horror and exhaustion of war in Dénes Nagy s cerebral yet unemotional debut. Jay Weissberg, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Director: Dénes Nagy With: Ferenc Szabó, Tamás Garbacz, László Bajkó, Gyula Franczia, Ern?‘ Stuhl, Gyula Szilágyi, Mareks Lapeskis, Krisztián Kozó, József Barta, Aivars Kuzmins, Liene Kislicka, Csaba Nánási, Zsolt Fodor. (Hungarian, Russian dialogue) Running time: Running time: 103 MIN.
Shocking WWII Berlin Fest Competition Drama Natural Light Gets First Trailer (EXCLUSIVE) John Hopewell, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Variety by sales company Luxbox. Set in icy marshland in Russia during WWII, “Natural Light” accompanies corporal István Semetka, drafted into a Hungarian unit whose mission is to locate and kill Russian partisans hiding in the woodlands. More from Variety Lodging at a benighted village whose houses are wooden shacks, its peasantry slopping down its muddy street sometimes shoe-less, Semetka’s company takes a route out of the hamlet recommended by the head of the village and comes under guerrilla fire, the company head being killed. When a sergeant major arrives to take command, the reprisal against the village will no doubt haunt Semetka for the rest of his days.