The Investigator
directed by Attila Gigor
• Genre: drama
• Director: Attila Gigor
• Producer: Ferenc Pusztai
• DOP: Máté Herbai
• Co-producers: Martin Persson (Anagram Produktion AB), Macdara Kelleher (Fastnet Films), Thomas Eskilsson (Film I Väst)
• Production company: KMH Film
• Running time: 110 min.
• Completion: Hungarian Film Week, 2008
At first glance Tibor Malkáv seems like an ordinary 37-year-old man except for his serious communication problem. He is precise and silent. He loves to be a pathological anatomist. Malkáv's mother, suffering from bone marrow cancer, is being treated in the same hospital where Malkáv works. The expenses of the surgery that would save her are far beyond his means. One day a one-eyed person introducing himself as Cyclops and gives him an offer: he will give Malkáv the money he needs for the clinic in Sweden if he kills someone. Malkáv accepts the job. A few days later he kills the person he had never met before. Soon it turns out to be the greatest mistake of his life. Two days later Malkáv receives a letter – from his own victim. Szirmai must have posted it on day of his death. In the letter he writes that he wants to meet Malkáv because he has found out that their father - whom neither of them knew - is the same person, therefore they are brothers. Thus an investigation starts where the murderer is trying to find out who the victim was.
• Awards:
° 39th Hungarian Film Week: Best writer
° 39th Hungarian Film Week: Best editor - Arany Olló award
° 39th Hungarian Film Week: Best actor
° 39th Hungarian Film Week: Best genre film (Moziverzum Award)
° 39th Hungarian Film Week: Best director (Green Raven Award)
° 39th Hungarian Film Week: Best film (Green Raven Award)
° 43th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival: Special Mention Of The Jury
° 43th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival: FFIC Don Quijote prize
° 24th Warsaw Film Festival: FIPRESCI-award
° 38th Kyiv International Film Festival: Yves Montand Award
° Bursa International Silk Road Film Festival: Best Film
° 10th Bratislava International Film Festival: Best actor
° Cleveland International Film Festival: Best Eastern European Film Award
° Media Wave 2009 IFF: Best director
° Media Wave 2009 IFF: Best DOP
° Hungarian Film Critics Award: Best First Feature film
° Hungarian Film Critics Award: Best script
° Hungarian Film Critics Award: Best actress
° Hungarian Film Critics Award: Best actor
° Pécs IFF: special mention.
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