Three men, they all committed murder as children. They passed their entire youth in communist Hungary’s most brutal prison, where they were first filmed. Disturbing archive footage shows them confessing details of their crime, and sharing their plans for the future. Thirty years on the filmmaker goes out to find them and discovers untold secrets and a Hungary he has never known. Fate, sin, and legacy – seen through the eyes of Cain’s children.
Co-producer:
Arte France "Grand documentaire"
HBO Europe Executive producer of documentaries - Hanka Kastelicová
Partners:
CNC - Centre National de la Cinématographie et de l`image animée
Hungarian Film Tax Incentive
Radio Télévision Suisse
PROCIREP
ANGOA
With the support of the MEDIA Programme of the European Union.
The film participated at
EURODOC 2011 Training Program
Nipkow Program
East European Forum, Jihlava, Czeh Republic, 2011
IDFA-The FORUM, Round Table Pitch, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2011
Neighbouring Co-production Meeting, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2011
Docu Talents from the East, Karlovy Vary, Czeh Republic, 2012
East Doc Platform – Project Market, Prague, Czeh Republic, 2013
main cast:
Pál Pásztor
József Gábor Nagy
Zsolt Barcsai
director: Marcell Gerő
author: Sára László, Marcell Gerő
producer: Sára László, Jacques Bidou, Marianne Dumoulin
director of photography: Rudolf Péter Kiss
2nd DoP: Zoltán Lovasi
editor: Sylvie Gadmer, Péter Sass
sound: Rudolf Várhegyi
sound editing and mixing: Tamás Dévényi, Tamás Székely
original music: Dominique Gadmer
production: Campfilm (Hungary), JBA Production (France), ARTE France - Martine Saada, Mark Edwards
co-producer: HBO Europe
executive producer: Hanka Kastelicova
production manager: Melinda Erdős
location manager: Eszter Szőllősi
production assistant: Ági Horváth Szabó
assistant producer: Barbara Héger
additional sound: János Csáki, Péter Benjámin Lukács, János Csáki Jr.
assistant editor: Annie Pierre
conformation: Janus Baranek
2nd assistant editor: Pauline Archange
foley artist: Florian Fabre
sound mixing foley: Yohann Angelvy
pre-mixing: Bruno Lagoarde
colorist: Ádám Vándor
pre-coloring: Mathilde Delacroix
graphist: Krisztián Gál
accountant: Gabriella Bedő, Philippe Chatillon
translation: Sophie Kepes, Beatrix Kiss-Boros, Attila Kiss, Kata Hajós, Eszter Facsády, Ralph Berkin
lawyer: Dr., Róbert Gábor Nagy
original music: Dominique Gadmer
music recording: Tamás Dévényi, Ádám Matz
recording studio: Hungaroton Stúdió
62nd San Sebastian International Film Festival, San Sebastian, Spain, 2014
in the "New Directors" competition
10th Zurich International Film Festival, Zurich, Switzerland, 2014
in the "International Documentary Film" competition
6th Abu Dhabi Film Festival, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, 2014
in the "Documentary Feature" competition
11th Verzio International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, Budapest, Hungary, 2014
in Hungarian competition
"Best Human Rights Documentary Special Award" awarded by the Student Jury
18th Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, Jihlava, Czech Republic, 2014
in the "Between the Seas" competition
27th IDFA - International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2014
in the "Best of Fests" program
25th Stockholm International Film Festival, Sweden, 2014
in the "Documania" program
11th Golden Eye Festival, Budapest, Hungary, 2014
in competition
“Best Documentary Cinematographer” Award
“Best Documentary in 2014” Prize
awarded by the Hungarian Film Critics’ Association, Budapest, Hungary, 2015
26th Trieste Film Festival, Trieste, Italy, 2015
in documentary competition
33rd Bergamo Film Meeting, Bergamo, Italy, 2015
in "Close Up" selection
11th Zagreb Dox International Documentary Film Festival, Zagreb, Croatia, 2015
in Regional competition
"Big Stamp" Award for Best Film in Regional Competition
30th International Film Festival of Guadalajara, Mexico, 2015
in the “New European Trends” section
12th DocuDays UA - International Human Rights Film Festival, Kiev, Ukrain, 2015
in competition
12th Cronograf International Documentary Film Festival, Chisinau, Moldova, 2015
in competition
25th Mediavawe - International Film Festival, Komárom, Hungary, 2015
in international competition
Best feature length documentary
14th DOXA Documentary Film Festival, Vancouver, Canada, 2015
in international competition
Honorable mention of the jury
23rd Art Film Fest International Film Festival, Trencin, Slovakia, 2015
in the "European Corner" section
21st Sarajevo Film Festival, Bosznia-Hercegovina, Sarajevo, 2015
in documentary competition
27th États généraux du film documentaire, Lussas, France, 2015
in official program
2nd BIDF- Budapest International Documentary Festival, Budapest, Hungary, 2015
in international competition
10th DocsDF International Documentary Film Festival, Mexico City, Mexico, 2015
in the "Docuthriller" competition
Best "Docuthriller" Award
15th Filmtettfeszt Hungarian Film Week in Transilvania, Romania, 2015
in official selection
4th Let`s CEE Film Festival, Wien, Austria, 2015
in documentary competition
5th Golden Eye International Festival of Movie and TV Cameramen, Tbilisi, Georgia, 2015
in competition
Best TV Cameramen Work Award
10th MIRADASDOC, Guía de Isora, Tenerife, Spain, 2015
in international competition
20th Páholyszemle, Székesfehérvár, Hungary, 2015
in official program
12th Glasgow Film Festival, Glasgow, Scotland, 2016
in the "Stranger Than Fiction" program
2nd Hungarian Film Week, Budapest, Hungary, 2016
in documentary competition - among the best 5 nominated documentaries
15th TIFF - Transilavanian International Film Festival, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 2016
in the "EDUCATIFF" program
Ars Sacra Film Festival, Budapest, Hungary, 2016
in official competition
