The Gravedigger
(A sírásó)

feature, video, 85 minutes

PREMIER (HUNGARY): 2010.

Ever since I started making films it has bothered me in a certain sense that film images are far too concrete, because technically they try to imitate the sense of space characteristic of everyday life. So the story ignites the imagination only to be slowed down by the images and stops the viewer from taking a flight of fantasy. For example, a film would start off having me believe that I'll see a story about Elizabeth I of England and I would then remember how she was bald, and what clothes she wore, her love for Sir Walter Raleigh, her own feelings and her political conflict... Then the spirit of the film speaks again: stop yourself, don't use your imagination, I'll show you exactly what's what! I have always been searching for an intrinsically different tool in filmmaking. One that could record space in its temporal progression. I would never have thought it existed!
Sándor Kardos
 

Based on The Gravedigger by R.M. Rilke

Creators

Sándor Kardos Director
Sándor Kardos, Gábor Németh Screenplay
Sándor Kardos Director of photography
Ági Mógor Editor
Peter Ogi Music
Rudolf Várhegyi Sound
András Muhi Producer
Inforg Stúdió Production company
M&M Film Co-producer
Mari Törőcsik, István Anga-Kakszi, Alina Papp, Géza Bereményi, György Báron, István B. Gellér Cast

Awards

Wroclaw New Horizons IFF - 2011 Special Mention
Syracuse International Film Festival - 2011 Judges Citation
Wroclaw New Horizons IFF - 2011 FIPRESCI Prize

Festivals

Salerno International Film Festival - 2010 (in competition)
Kaunas International Film Festival - 2011
Leeds International Film Festival - 2011 (in competition)
Split Film Festival - 2010
Bydgoszcz Camerimage - 2011

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