Director Árpád Sopsits finds a queasy political dimension to the Martfü murders in 1957, for which the wrong man was jailed
Here is a bleak, brutal, dispiriting serial killer drama, based on a real-life case from postwar Hungary: the Martfü murders, in which the film finds a queasy political dimension. In 1957, in the provincial town of Martfü in eastern Hungary, a young woman is found brutally killed. Her boyfriend confesses to the crime, but after he has been in prison for some years, more women are murdered and it appears the real culprit is still at large, and the convicted man may have had his confession beaten out of him, or confessed due to a complex, deep-seated guilt about something other than the crime itself.
Gábor Jászberényi is Réti, the innocent man; Zsolt Anger is Bóta, the anguished cop who got it wrong and Péter Bárnai is Szirmai, the fierce new...
Here is a bleak, brutal, dispiriting serial killer drama, based on a real-life case from postwar Hungary: the Martfü murders, in which the film finds a queasy political dimension. In 1957, in the provincial town of Martfü in eastern Hungary, a young woman is found brutally killed. Her boyfriend confesses to the crime, but after he has been in prison for some years, more women are murdered and it appears the real culprit is still at large, and the convicted man may have had his confession beaten out of him, or confessed due to a complex, deep-seated guilt about something other than the crime itself.
Gábor Jászberényi is Réti, the innocent man; Zsolt Anger is Bóta, the anguished cop who got it wrong and Péter Bárnai is Szirmai, the fierce new...
- 11/17/2017
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
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