White God
Fehér Isten
Kornél Mundruczó
In Hungary, the government wants to encourage pure-bred dogs, and owners have to pay a tax for mongrels. This is the case of Hagen, 13-year-old-Lili's dog. To her dismay, her father decides to abandon the dog at the roadside. Lili decides to find him again, whatever it may take...
With : Zsófia Psotta, Sándor Zsótér, Lili Horváth, László Gálffi
Screenplay : Kornél Mundruczó, Viktória Petrányi, Kata Wéber
Image : Marcell Rév
Editing : Dávid Jancsó
Music : Asher Goldschmidt
Screenplay : Kornél Mundruczó, Viktória Petrányi, Kata Wéber
Image : Marcell Rév
Editing : Dávid Jancsó
Music : Asher Goldschmidt
Production : Proton Cinema, Pola Pandora Filmproduktions, Filmpartners, The Chimney Pot, Hungarian National Film Fund et ZDF/Arte (coproductions)
Distribution: Pyramide
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Distribution: Pyramide
http://distrib.pyramidefilms.com/
With White God, Kornél Mundruczó cleverly mixes genres, and presents us with a cruel and poetic puzzle “a mix of adventure, revenge, revolt and heroism” (K. Mundruczó). The narrative is also multi-facetted: the revolt of the ferocious and determined canine pack, is skilfully echoed by Lili's as she takes a position against her father. These different revolts make White God a dense and powerful film, with a marked political discourse: “the whole of the story is told from the point of view of the dog's as a species subject to discrimination by people who behave as if they were gods. The film tells of what the revolt of those who are subjected could look like” (K. Mundruczó).