Feature film Competition film 44th Film Week
Mesterjátszma
- Director
- Tóth Barnabás
- Length
- 90 min
- Production company
- Innoplay Kft., Sparks Kft.
Awards at the 44th Hungarian Film Week
- Best Actor – Hajduk Károly
About the film
Master Game, loosely inspired by Stefan Zweig’s The Royal Game, follows Márta (Sára Varga-Járó) and István (Gergely Váradi) as they attempt to flee Hungary on the last refugee train in November 1956. Alongside the young couple, the Church’s priceless relics are also being transported toward the western border and freedom. Meanwhile, B (Károly Hajduk), a Catholic priest, is tortured by the regime in an attempt to extract the relics’ location. The characters’ fates intertwine aboard the train during a high-stakes chess match, where not only the fate of the treasures but also the lives of the lovers hang in the balance.
Credits
- Director
- Tóth Barnabás
- Producer
- Szurmay János, Szabó Máté
- Screenplay
- Fonyódi Tibor, Tóth Barnabás
- Cinematography
- Másik Szőke András
- Editor
- Szalai Károly
- Music
- Keresztes Gábor
- Sound
- Lukács Péter Benjámin
- Production design
- Hujber Balázs
- Costume design
- Szlávik Juli
- Cast
- Hajduk Károly, Mácsai Pál, Váradi Gergely, Varga-Járó Sára, Péterfy Bori
- Production company
- Innoplay Kft., Sparks Kft.
