A midlife crisis goes full Kafka in the post-Soviet wasteland — with fishing rods.
OUT is an odyssey about 50 year old family man Agoston wandering through East Europe. After loosing his lifelong job in a power plant of small Slovak village Agoston takes the shady but alluring opportunity to work as a welder in a shipyard in Latvia. The journey in hopes of a new job in reality turns into a accelerating whirlwind of absurd events of short encounters, newly found-and-lost-again friendships subtracting from Agoston all his possessions and everything he once believed to be his whole life. However Agoston doesn't give up his search for income and decides to persuade his dream of catching a big sea fish.
Cinematography
Stunning deadpan framing of industrial decay and empty horizons.
Acting
Sándor Terhes conveys entire lifetimes of resignation in silence.
Director
György Kristóf
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Kristóf captures the specific post-2008 economic devastation across Eastern European border zones, where EU membership created ghost towns of emigration.
The shipyard scenes were filmed at an actual functioning Latvian yard; workers in background are real employees, not extras.
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