Retrace / Întoarcerea (2011)

2011 / 98 min / Hungary – Romania - Suede

Romania, the summer of 1970. The Ceausescu regime is in full swing. Katherine (40), our protagonist is returning to her birthplace in Transylvania for the first time since she emigrated to Canada with her father after World War II. She is of Jewish-Hungarian decent, she was deported with her entire family under Hungarian rule in Transylvania during World War II. Only she and her father survived the camps. She got married in Canada.

Distraught by her memories and other recent troubling events, she finds herself alone in the middle of the forest with a man who is paralyzed by fear. Éva remembers the young boy that she had fallen in love with at the age of six…..

Festivals :

2011 - Los-Angeles Hungarian Film Festival: The Best Actress prize ;

2011 - Moscow International Film Festival Nominated, Golden St. George;

2011 - Ashkelon Jewish Eye Festival

2012- Chicago EU Filmfestival;

2012 - Kolozsvár Transyilvania International Film Festival;

2012 - Lagów International Film Festival;

2012 Palic International Film Festival;

2012 Louisville –IFF

Crew :

Directing and Script : Judit Elek
DOP : László Berger
Music : László Melis
Editing : Zoltán Varga
Producer : Judit Elek, Cornelia Palos, Johan Fälemark / Dánielfilm Studio / Artis Film Romania / Illusion Film & Television

Cast :

Kathleen Gati..... Katherine
András Demeter..... Sándor Teleszkay
Philip Zandén..... Steve
Sarah Clark..... Julie

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