A psychotic killer is on the prowl, who continues to slaughter young women while an innocent man is wrongly accused and sentenced for crimes he could never have committed. A determined detective arrives on the scene and soon becomes obsessed with the case while under pressure from the prosecutor to see a man hang.
Cinematography
Sickly yellows and oppressive shadows that reek of Soviet decay.
Acting
Hajduk's Kovács—broken, feral, absolutely devastating.
Direction
Sopsits refuses to let you look away from institutional cruelty.
Director
Árpád Sopsits
Károly Hajduk
Kovács Péter
Gábor Jászberényi
Réti Ákos
Zsolt Anger
Bóta nyomozó
Mónika Balsai
Szigeti Nóra, Bognár felesége
Piroska Móga
Marika
Eszter Csépai
Sóskuti Ibolya
Péter Bárnai
Szirmai Zoltán
Zsolt Trill
Katona Gábor ügyész
Zsófia Szamosi
Rita
András Réthelyi
Juhász
Valentin Venczel
Rostás
Dóra Sztarenki
Ági
Zsolt Dér
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on the real 1960s Martfű murders, Hungary's first serial killer case, which exposed how communist bureaucracy prioritized closed cases over correct ones.
Sopsits deliberately cast actors with theatrical backgrounds to create that stifling, performative quality of public morality under authoritarianism—everyone's watching, no one's seeing.
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