Based on a novel by Judita Šalgo, Minotaur is set in late-1990s Novi Sad whilst war rages in Kosovo. The Hungarian family at the heart of Szabolcs Tolnai's film is demonstrative of a once outwards-facing multi-cultural environment that the filmmaker suggests has since been degraded by fear and the harsh realities of living in Serbia. Ana, the family’s matriarch, is a former editor of the daily newspaper’s culture pages - which, she remarks, "ceased… and culture sometime later". With a long-missing son and errant former pop star husband, meanwhile slowly stripping their apartment of its possessions, she can do much worse than join the town’s neo-avantgardists in an ‘invisible’ art project.
The film’s absurd and autumnal hues finally burst into existential colour and performance, courtesy of Milance, an (eventually) Socrates-bearded poet. Resistance starts here!
- Director
- Szabolcs Tolnai
- Premiere
- World premiere
- Countries of production
- Serbia, Hungary
- Year
- 2016
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2016
- Length
- 47'
- Medium
- DCP
- Original title
- Minotaurus
- Languages
- Hungarian, Serbian
- Producer
- Szabolcs Tolnai
- Production Company
- Atalanta
- Sales
- Atalanta
- Screenplay
- Szabolcs Tolnai
- Cinematography
- Gergely Pohárnok, Ákos K. Kovács
- Editor
- Ana Lagator, Vuk Vukmirovic
- Production Design
- Darko Maletin
- Sound Design
- Gábor Ripli
- Music
- Strange Party Orchestra
- Cast
- Hermina G. Erdélyi, Nenad Jezdic