The District!
| Nyócker! | |
|---|---|
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| Directed by | Áron Gauder |
| Produced by | Erik Novák |
| Music by | Erik Novák |
Release dates |
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Running time | 87 minutes |
| Country | Hungary |
| Language | Hungarian |
| Budget | 525,000 USD |
The District! (Hungarian: Nyócker!) is a 2004 Hungarian caricaturistic animated film directed by Áron Gauder. Its original title is a shortened colloquial form of nyolcadik kerület, the eighth district of Budapest, also known as Józsefváros, including an infamous neighbourhood where the film takes place. It is sometimes labelled as the Hungarian South Park.
It has been distributed in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, United Kingdom, France, the Benelux countries, Romania, Poland, Portugal and Taiwan, and it is going to be shown in the United States.
It was also shown at film festivals in Helsinki, Toronto, Copenhagen, Zagreb, Karlovy Vary and the below venues and it will be shown in Warsaw, Vancouver and São Paulo.
The animated technique for this movie was rather innovative. The artists took 350 headshot pictures of each actor and used these photos for the expressing emotions and the animation of the heads. The bodies were hand drawn.[1]
Plot
The film displays the Hungarian, Roma, Chinese and Arab dwellers and their alliances and conflicts in a humorous way, embedded into a fictive story of a few schoolchildren's oil-making time-travel and a Romeo and Juliet-type love of a Roma guy towards a white girl.
Cast and crew
- Directed by
- Áron Gauder
- Screenplay
- Máriusz Bari
- Viktor Nagy
- Erik Novák
- László Jakab Orsós
- Produced by
- Erik Novák
- Original Music by
- Erik Novák
- Cast[2]
| voice actor | face actor | character | notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| L.L. Junior | Krisztián Rostás | Ricsi Lakatos | Main character, Roma kid |
| László Szacsvay | József Németh | Guszti Lakatos | Ricsi's grandfather |
| Károly Gesztesi | László Jakab Orsós | Lóránt "Lóri" Lakatos | Pub owner, Ricsi's father |
| Győző Szabó | Károly "Karesz" Csorba | Nightclub owner, Lóri's rival | |
| Gábor Csöre | Kristóf Novák | Simon "Simi" Csorba | Karesz's son, Ricsi's rival |
| ? | Chen | Chinese kid | |
| Andrea Roatis | Kriszti Szénási | Julika Csorba | Karesz's daughter, Ricsi's love interest |
| Dorka Gryllus | Fanny Volcsánszky | Mari Lakatos | Ricsi's sister, Simon's love interest |
| Judit Jónás | Rózi Lakatos | Gypsy fortune teller, Guszti's wife and head of the family | |
| István Betz | Erno Báder | Sandokan Kolompár | Ricsi's fearless friend |
| András Faragó | István Nagy | Kolompár | Sandokan's father |
| Zoltán Rajkai | Gyula Horváth | Abdul | Arab kid |
| Csaba Krisztián Csík | András Molnár | Omar | Abdul's father |
| Barnabás Szabó Sipos | Zsolt Lengyel | Dr. Zsírvágó | Jewish gynecologist and plastic surgeon. The name literally means "fat-cutting doctor" |
| Balázs Simonyi | Máriusz Bari | Móricka | Geeky, genius kid, Zsírvágó's son |
| Sándor Badár | Badár | Policeman | |
| János Horváth | János Horváth | Vizy | Policeman |
| Csaba Pindroch | Béluska "Bélus" | Vizy's son | |
| Anna Orosz | Éva Járvás | Ági néni | Teacher |
| Andrea Fullajtár | Zsuzsa Kocsis | Irina | |
| Nóra Parti | Renáta Kósa | Anett | |
| Éva Dögei | Veronika Gróf | Isaura | |
| Mike Kelly | Simon József | Steve | CIA agent |
Awards
| Date | Award | Festival | Location | Link | obs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004-12 | Best Visual Expression | Magyar Filmszemle | Hungary | ||
| 2005-06-11 | Cristal for best feature | Annecy International Animated Film Festival | Annecy, France | ^ | |
| 2005-08-19 | Grand Prize | Seoul International Cartoon and Animation Festival | Seoul, South Korea | ||
| 2005-09-25 | Mercury Filmworks Grand Prize For Animated Feature | Ottawa International Animation Festival | Ottawa, Canada | ^ | |
| 2005-09-28 | Best Animated Feature | KROK International Animated Films Festival | Russia | ^ | |
| 2005-10-13 | Best Animated Film | Festival de Cine de Sitges | Sitges, Spain | ||
| 2005 | Cross of Merit of the Republic of Hungary | Hungary | ^ | ||
| 2005 | Best Hungarian Feature; Kecskemét City Award | KAFF (Kecskemét Animation Film Festival) | Kecskemét, Hungary | ||
| 2005 | Golden Zagreb award | Animafest Zagreb | Zagreb, Croatia | ||
| 2006 | Best Feature | Anima | Spain | ||
| 2006 | Best Feature | CUFF 2006 (Calgary Underground Film Festival) | Zagreb, Canada | ||
| 2006 | Best feature; Audience Award | Anima (film festival) | Belgium | ||
| 2007 | Lisbon City Prize | Monstra Festival | Lisbon, Portugal |
Notes:
- ^Note a : The panel was shocked at the technological modernity of the film and at learning that it was only made from 105 million HUF (525,000 USD).
- ^Note b : "For its visual innovation, energetic style, and fearless satire of contemporary culture and politics"
- ^Note c : On the board Princess of Dneper — out of 130 films from 36 countries of the world.
- ^Note d : Awarded to Director Aron Gauder
Festivals
The film has been presented in several film festivals across the world, including:
- 7 July 2005: Karlovy Vary Film Festival (Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic)
- 24 August 2005: Copenhagen International Film Festival (Denmark)
- 13 September 2005: Toronto International Film Festival (Canada)
- 15–25 September 2005: Helsinki Film Festival
- September/October 2005: Melbourne International Film Festival 2005
- 27 October 2005: Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
- 18 November 2005: Waterloo Festival for Animated Cinema (Canada)
- 18 November 2005: Oslo International Film Festival (Norway)
- 1 February 2006: Gothenburg Film Festival (Gothenburg, Sweden)
- 16 February 2006: !f Istanbul Independent Film Festival (Istanbul, Turkey)
- 10 March 2006: Mar del Plata Film Festival (Mar del Plata, Argentina)
- 7 April 2006: Philadelphia International Film Festival (Philadelphia, USA)
- 3 June 2006: Transilvania International Film Festival (Cluj-Napoca, Romania)
- 12 April 2007: Wisconsin Film Festival (Wisconsin, USA)
- 6 December 2007: Festafife - Festival International de Marionetas e Cinema de Animação (Afife, Portugal)
- 5 January 2008: Project Twenty1 Film-A-Thon (Philadelphia, USA)
External links
- "Website in English: News, story, cast, hint, trailer, film stills". Archived from the original on 25 May 2007.
- Official website (Hungarian)
- The District! at the Internet Movie Database
References
- ↑ Nyócker! (2004) - Trivia at IMDB
- ↑ Nyócker - Szereplők (karakterek) (Hungarian)
