Twenty minutes. One man. The weight of centuries crushing his soul.
Cut off from the rest of the world on a distant farm in the Great Plains, a Hungarian farmer tries to uphold a family ideal he formulated from rigid traditions.
Acting
Thuróczy's physicality speaks volumes without dialogue.
Cinematography
Bleak Great Plains swallowing human ambition whole.
Direction
Till's restraint makes every frame feel inevitable.
Director
Attila Till
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Till explores rural Hungarian masculinity through a deliberately universal lens—the Great Plains setting deliberately mirrors American frontier mythology while subverting it.
The 20-minute runtime isn't constraint; it's cruelty. Till wanted viewers to feel the suffocation before they could adjust, mirroring Csicska's trapped existence.
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