Trailer
A Hungarian director is staging a play with Roma in which they are exhibited as if in a zoo. This “poverty porn” is sold to Deutsches Theater, where the anguish continues during rehearsals without anyone being interested in the perspectives of the Roma and their actual stories. Ádám Császi, known for his opposition to the Orbán regime, presents a masterful and provocative reflection on systemic racism, faked altruism and the ambivalence of woke culture. He succeeds to produce a masterpiece of a sequence shot with hallucinatory dimensions. A yell of rage kind of film based on the play “Gypsy Hungarian,” written by the members of a Roma theater group fighting against discrimination and stigmatization of their people.
Text: Joshua Jádi
Ádám Császi, Balázs Lengyel
István Balázs Balázs
Tamás Beke
Renátó Cseh
Csaba Kalotás
Norbert Varga, Edmond Oláh, Franciska Farkas, Rómeó Pápai, Cristopher Pászik, Kristóf Horváth, Wieland Speck
Ádám Császi - Ádám Császi is a film/theater director and screenwriter, born in Hungary in 1978. He graduated from SZFE, Budapest’s University of Theater and Film Arts in 2010.His first feature LAND OF STORMS premiered in Panorama at the Berlinale 2014 to critical acclaim and was nominated for the Best First Feature Award and Teddy Award. It was in competition in Sarajevo, Chicago, Seattle, and Guadalajara in 2014, and won the Special Jury Prize at the Taipei Film Festival 2014 as well as the Audience Award at Tel Aviv 2014. LAND OF STORMS also went to about 40 international festivals and sold to 14 countries, including US, UK, France, Germany, and Spain. Császi's scripts have been recipients of the following programs and scholarships: Official Selection of Berlinale Co-Production Market 2015, Nipkow Programm 2015, Frontieres Montreal 2017, ScriptEast Program 2016, eQuinoxe Int'l 2016, Midpoint Central European Script Center 2010, Holland Film Meeting Official Selection 2015.His theater directorial work debuted in 2017 in various Hungarian theatres. His play 'Gypsy Hungarian' played at Deutsches Theater in Berlin.