Credits
Péter BACSÓ - Director
György VUKÁN - Music
Károly PELLER - Sound
Katalin JÁN - Costumes designer
Casting
Ferenc KÁLLAI - Pelikán
Zoltán FÁBRI - Zoltán Dániel
Lajos OZE - comrade Virág
Béla BOTH - comrade Bástya
Lili MONORI - Gizi
Cannes Classics
A TANÚ
(THE WITNESS)
Directed by : Péter BACSÓ
Year of production : 1969 Country : HUNGARY Length : 111 minutes
Synopsis
The Witness is set in the Rákosi era during the 1950s. Dyke-reeve József Pelikán lives with his large family on the dyke. One day he comes across a poacher fisherman who turns out to be an old friend, Zoltán Dániel, who was made a minister of state in 1949. In 1944, the two of them had battled against the fascist Arrow Cross party, and Pelikán had hidden the one-time resistance fighter in his cellar, precisely where he now has pork sides of an illegally slaughtered pig concealed. When the State Security Force (ÁVO) turns up in response to an anonymous tip, it is the minister himself who betrays his friend and reveals his one-time hiding place to the police. After this, the naive Pelikán finds himself caught up in a series of incomprehensible events…
Péter BACSÓ
poster of the movie © Hungarian National Film Fund- Film Archive
Contacts
Production
MAFILM STUDIO 1 - - - - HUNGARY - T: 36 202592835 - [email protected]
Distribution
HUNGARIAN NATIONAL FILM FUND - FILM ARCHIVE - T: 36 1018 - http://filmarchiv.hu/hu - [email protected]
French press
CLAVIS FILMS - T: 659490123 - http://www.clavisfilms.com/v3/clavis_evenements_4.html - Simon SHANDOR - [email protected]
International sales
HUNGARIAN NATIONAL FILM FUND - FILM ARCHIVE - T: 36 1018 - http://filmarchiv.hu/hu - [email protected]
