Synopsis : "A young girl is found sexually assaulted and murdered in a remote mountain forest. A peddler with a criminal record is suspected of the crime, but the investigating detective doesn’t believe he did it. He finds a drawing done by the dead girl showing a black “giant” and his car that he thinks is a picture of the perpetrator. Hoping to draw in the criminal, he sets up a mother and her young daughter as “bait” in an abandoned petrol station. This film adaptation of oft-used motifs by Friedrich Dürrenmatt is as austere as the natural world where it is set. "
Festival History : "Berlinale Classics, 2023 "
Awards : Bronze Leopard, Locarno, 1990
Director :
Gyōrgy Fehér
Screenplay :
György Fehér
DOP :
Miklós Gurbán, Peter Benya, János Kende
Editor :
Mária Czeilik
Cast :
Péter Haumann, János Derzsi, Judit Pogány, Kati Lázár, István Lénárt, Gyula Pauer, Miklós B. Székely, László Németh, István Fogarasi, Pál Hetényi
György Fehér was a Hungarian film director and screenwriter. His film Szenvedély was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival. Fehér taught at the Academy of Theatre and Film Arts. From 1959, he worked for a year and a half at the Radio, then at Hungarian Television as a sound technician and then as an assistant cameraman. After graduating, he worked as a cinematographer and director for Hungarian Television from 1975 to 2001.