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The District!

2004 Hungarian film

For other uses, see The District (disambiguation).

The District! (Hungarian: Nyócker!) is a 2004 Hungarian caricaturistic animated film directed by Áron Gauder. Its original title is a shortened colloquial form of nyolcadik kerület, the eighth district of Budapest, also known as Józsefváros, including an infamous neighbourhood where the film takes place.

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It has been distributed in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, United Kingdom, France, the Benelux countries, Romania, Poland, Portugal and Taiwan, and it is going[when?] to be shown in the United States.

It was also shown at film festivals in Helsinki, Toronto, Copenhagen, Zagreb, Karlovy Vary and the below venues and it will be shown in Warsaw, Vancouver and São Paulo.

Plot

The film displays the Hungarian, Roma, Chinese and Arab dwellers and their alliances and conflicts in a humorous way, embedded into a fictive story of a few schoolchildren's oil-making time-travel and a Romeo and Juliet-type love of a Roma guy towards a white girl.

Cast and crew

Directed by
Áron Gauder
Screenplay
Máriusz Bari
Viktor Nagy
Erik Novák
László Jakab Orsós
Produced by
Erik Novák
Original Music by
Erik Novák
Cast[1]
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Awards

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Notes:

  • ^Note a : The panel was shocked at the technological modernity of the film and at learning that it was only made from 105 million HUF (525,000 USD).
  • ^Note b : "For its visual innovation, energetic style, and fearless satire of contemporary culture and politics"
  • ^Note c : On the board Princess of Dneper – out of 130 films from 36 countries of the world.
  • ^Note d : Awarded to Director Aron Gauder

Festivals

The film has been presented in several film festivals across the world, including:

  • "Website in English: News, story, cast, hint, trailer, film stills". Archived from the original on 25 May 2007.
  • Official website (in Hungarian)
  • The District! at IMDb Edit this at Wikidata

References

  1. [1]
    Nyócker – Szereplők (karakterek) Archived 2 October 2011 at the Wayback Machine (in Hungarian)
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