Fever at the Dawn (2015)
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Country:
Hungary
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Duration:
114 min
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Genre:
drama
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Director:
Peter Gardos
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Producer:
Gabor Ferenczy
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Cast:
Gila Almagor, Anna Azcarate, Lehel Kovacs, Andrea Sztarek, Peter Scherer
About film
In 2014 an elderly lady (played by the remarkable Israeli actress Gila Almagor) is walking the overcrowded streets of Jerusalem, carrying priceless letters written 60 years ago. In May 1945, after being freed from a concentration camp, the 25-year-old Hungarian man, Miklós is treated at a Swedish hospital on Gotland Island. The doctors give their sentence: Miklós's lungs are almost destroyed by tuberculosis and typhoid, and he has no more than six months left. But the severe diagnosis cannot break Miklós’s will to live: he writes letters to 117 Hungarian girls from his native Debrecen.
Director
71-year-old Hungarian director, author, and screenwriter, whose parents survived the Holocaust. Peter did not get admitted to a theatre college and went on to study linguistics. In 1987, he released his film Szamárköhögés, which was screened at 52 film festivals. His film The Porcelain Doll took part in the competition program at the MIFF in 2005. In 2010 Gárdos released his novel Fever at the Dawn telling a love story of his parents during World War II. The book became a bestseller, and in 2015 the director adapted it into a film.
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Director
71-year-old Hungarian director, author, and screenwriter, whose parents survived the Holocaust. Peter did not get admitted to a theatre college and went on to study linguistics. In 1987, he released his film Szamárköhögés, which was screened at 52 film festivals. His film The Porcelain Doll took part in the competition program at the MIFF in 2005. In 2010 Gárdos released his novel Fever at the Dawn telling a love story of his parents during World War II. The book became a bestseller, and in 2015 the director adapted it into a film.
