Malmkrog
Cristi Puiu / RO, RS, SE, CH, BA, 2020 / 200 min.
Tensions rise due to heated discussions during dinner at a snow-covered stately home in 19th-century Transylvania. Malmkrog sardonically turns the dialectical thumbscrews thereby providing razor sharp commentary on the contemporary era. Winner of Best Director at the Berlin Film Festival (Encounters).
On Christmas Eve, a group of guests arrive at the stately home of Nikolai, an aristocrat and man of the world. Among them a politician, a young countess and a general and his wife. They talk and eat, enjoy parlour games and discuss the right form of authority in times of political impotence, progress and morality, death and the antichrist. Should society fully support pacificism or is it permitted to wage war?
Details
Director
Cristi Puiu
Production year
2020
Country
RO, RS, SE, CH, BA
Original title
Malmkrog
Length
200 min.
Language
French, Russian, German, Hungarian, English, Romanian
Subtitles
ENG
Format
DCP
Part of
Previously Unreleased
The films featured in Eye’s Previously Unreleased programme were screened at major national and international festivals, but were never released to Dutch cinemas. Every summer, Eye brings a choice of films previously selected for international festivals to Dutch film audiences to redress the balance.
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