These are three short stories dealing with the problem of refugees.

The first story is about a man on the run, who is an emblematic figure preoccupied with his frailness and fallibility, and about the violence of man’s death disappearing in Nature’s beauty, which dissolves everything into itself.
The second story elaborates the axiom according to which a wretched man will always find someone more wretched than himself. There is a certain group even among the deprived, which mercilessly terrorises the others. These people exploit and humiliate the others in order to protect themselves from spiritual decay. The scene here is a kind of cynical family history in itself.
The third and final part offers a parody of the charitable motions of welfare societies.

These stories do not intend to formulate provocative questions or wise answers. They are rather cold, that is to say cynical mementos of an age and of the cruelty and fallible nature of modern man.

The film premiered in the “Corto Cortissimo” section of the Biennale di Venezia.

CAST

In order of appearance: Gábor Viola, László Katona, Lilla Sárosdi, Zsolt Nagy, Roland Rába, Zoltán Mucsi, Eszter Csákányi, Bori Péterfy, Lajos Bódi, Péter Scherer, Sándor Terhes

CREW

Director: Árpád Schilling
Producer: Gábor Sipos, Gábor Rajna, Máté Gáspár, Árpád Schilling
Screenplay: Árpád Schilling
DOP: Mátyás Erdély
Editor: Károly Ari
Art director: Márton Ágh
Costume design: Julcsi Kiss
Sound: Balázs Pejkó, Ferenc Papp (Membran)
Music: Johann Sebastian Bach

Production manager: Gábor Sipos, Gábor Rajna
Location manager: Ádám Názer
Assistant Director: Bálint Rajna
Make-up: Zsuzsa Rudolf
Focus puller: Horváth Árpád
Props: Miklós Mervel
Constructor: Lajos Bódi
Still Photographer: Ildi Hermann
Gaffer: Árpád Szirmai Jr.
Lighting Technicians: János Horváth, Tibor Kun, Attila Bakos
Dolly Shot: Gyula Peterdy
Catering: Márta Boján, Luca Kalmár

Labor: Kodak Cinelabs Hungary
Light Dterminator: Viola Régéczi
Post-Production: Focus Fox Studio
Avid editor: Károly Ari
Inferno: Kauker Zsolt
Main title: Balázs Ari

Production company: Laokoon Film, Krétakör Theatre, Looser Bros.

Photo: Ildi Hermann

PRESS

• Tímea Hungler: Utazás Velencébe. Magyar Narancs, 14. 10. 2004. (interview)
   
• turcsányi: Rövidfilm: Madarak (Schilling Árpád: Határontúl). Magyar Narancs, 14. 10. 2004.