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Hungary's Fliegauf: Central European standard-bearer in Berlin
Feb 16, 2012, 8:01 GMT
Berlin - Hungarian director Bence Fliegauf has emerged as the standard-bearer for central European cinema at this year's Berlin Film Festival with his story of a gypsy family under attack by racists, to screen Thursday in the Berlinale's main competition.
The movie, Csak a Szel (Just the Wind) is one of 18 films competing for the Berlinale's coveted Golden Bear for best picture.
Starring Lajos Sarkany, Katalin Toldi, Gyongyi Lendvai and Gyorgy Toldi, Just the Wind is inspired by an actual series of killings in Hungary that claimed the lives of eight people in less than a year.
This is the third time that Fliegauf has been selected to screen a film at the Berlinale. His previous movies shown in Berlin were Dealer in 2004 and Rengeteg in 2003.
The festival is also screening the world premieres of German director Michael Glasner's Gnade (Mercy) and Danish filmmaker Nikolaj Arcel's En Kongelig Affaere.
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