28th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival
Cain´s Children
director: Marcell Gerő
original title: Káin gyermekei
year: 2014
running time: 104 min.
synopsis
Three men, each from a different corner of Hungary. Their fates, their worldviews, and their living conditions differ, but they nonetheless have something in common: when they were very young, each of them killed someone and then suffered for years in prison. How do people who spent critical moments of their adolescence in the difficult conditions of a detention center come to terms with committing a crime and living their lives afterwards? As an answer, this film offers a chilling, visually compelling treatment of beings on the edge of society, whose crippled lives are cracked like the linoleum that one of their mothers futilely attempts to piece together in her crumbling home.DETAIL:
People thought I was a psychopathic animal. But they didn’t laugh anymore.
biography
Marcell Gerő graduated from the Film and Theatre Academy in Budapest. His thesis film Shock (2007) was the recipient of a number of awards at international festivals in Hungary and abroad. After completing his studies, he founded the production company Campfilm, and has worked as a director and producer on a number of documentary projects whose themes generally encompass people on the edge of society and members of minority groups.more about film
director: | Marcell Gerő |
cast: | Pál Pásztor, József Gábor Nagy, Zsolt Barcsai |
producer: | Marianne Dumoulin, Jacques Bidou, Sára László |
script: | Marcell Gerő, Sára László |
editing: | Sylvie Gadmer, Péter Sass |
music: | Dominque Gadmer |
sound: | Rudolf Várhegyi, Tamás Dévényi, Tamás Székely |