The Man From London

Maloin leads a simple life without prospects. He barely notices the world around him, has already accepted the slow and inevitable deterioration of life around him and his all but complete loneliness. When he becomes a witness to a murder, his life takes a sudden turn. He comes face to face with issues of morality, sin, punishment, the line between innocence and complicity in a crime, and this state of skepticism leads him to the ontological question of the meaning and worth of existence. The film is about desire, man’s indestructible longing for a life of freedom and happiness, about illusions never to be realized – about things that give all of us energy to continue living, to go to sleep and get up day after day. Maloin’s story is ours, for all of those who doubt and are able to question our humdrum existence.

Born in Pécs, Hungary, in 1955. He graduated in film direction in 1981 at the Film and Television Academy in Budapest. From 1979 to 1980 he was a member of Béla Balázs Studio and, in 1981, was one of the founders of Studio Társulás. He founded and directed film.factory at Sarajevo School for Science and Technology from 2012 to 2016. One of the most important directors of Hungarian cinema, he directed, among others, Family Nest (1977), The Prefab People (1982), Almanac of Fall (1984), awarded at the Locarno Festival, Damnation (1988, 18th Mostra), City Life (1989, 14th Mostra), Werckmeister Harmonies (2000), Prologue (2004, 28th Mostra), The Man from London (2007, 31st Mostra) and The Turin Horse (2011), which received the Silver Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival. Satantango was exhibited at the 18th Mostra.

43ª MOSTRA INTERNACIONAL DE CINEMA

43ª MOSTRA INTERNACIONAL DE CINEMA