Puskás Hungary
(Puskás Hungary)

documentary, digital, 116 minutes

PREMIER (HUNGARY): 2009.

This documentary tells the story of legendary soccer player Ferenc Puskás, who started from the Budapest slums and became an international star, living his life irrespective of politics, war and conventions of society, doing the one thing he loved and knew best: pay soccer. Our movie is about this mystic figure, the captain of the legendary Magical Magyars Team of the 1950s, who overcame poverty, calamities such as World War II, and the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, and who, after a physical and mental breakdown, returned to the top with an amazing effort once again in his 30's, and became a world- renowned forward for the Real Madrid.2009 - Hungarian Film Festival in Los Angeles: Michael Curtiz Audience Award

Creators

Tamás Almási Director
Zsolt Tóth Director of photography
László Hargittai Editor
László Dés Music
Gábor Balázs Sound
G. Zsuzsanna Hollósi, Gábor Varga, Ádám Neményi Producer
Filmplus, Next Station Productions Production company
József Gyabronka, Imre Csuja Narrator

Awards

Valladolid International Film Festival - 2009 Best Documentary
Budapest Hungarian Film Week - 2010 Best Documentary (ex-aequo), Prize of the Association of Hungarian Art Cinemas

Festivals

Segovia MUCES - 2009 (in competition)
Buenos Aires BAFICI - 2010
Cluj-Napoca Transilvania - 2010
Wroclaw New Horizons IFF - 2010
Vukovar Film Festival - 2010 (in competition)
Syracuse International Film Festival - 2010
Targu-Mures AlterNative - 2010
Tehran FAJR International Film Festival - 2011
Oslo Eurodok - 2011
Edinburgh-London New Europe Film Festival - 2011

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