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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).

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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?

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This movie contains scenes of explicit discriminationThis movie contains scenes of violencePersons under 12 years must be accompanied by an adult

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

Screened at prominent national and international festivals, yet never released in Dutch cinemas. Quite unjustly so, Eye Filmmuseum thinks, and so it has once again brought an exceptional selection of films from international festivals to the Netherlands.

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