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POST MORTEM

By Péter BERGENDY

SMART DOG PRODUCTIONS LTD - as DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, Airline, UNITED KINGDOM

Thriller - Completed 2020

A post mortem photographer and a little girl confront ghosts in a haunted village after the First World War.

Festivals
& Awards

Warsaw FF 2020

International Competition

Sitges FF 2020

FANCINE Festival de Cine Fantastico de la Universidad de Malaga 2020

Nominated, Fancine Award - Official Jury - Best Film

San Sebastián Horror and Fantasy Film Festival 2020

Nominated, Blogos de Oro Award - Best Feature

Splat! FilmFest 2020

Nominated, Audience Award - Best Film

Trieste Science+Fiction Festival 2020

Won - RAI 4 Award - Best Film

Trieste Science+Fiction Festival 2020

Won - Méliès d' argent Award Special Mention - Best European Feature-length Film from the Fantastic Genre

Fantasporto 2021

Best Film

- Year of production
- 2020
- Genres
- Thriller, Horror
- Countries
- HUNGARY
- Languages
- HUNGARIAN, ENGLISH
- Duration
- 115 mn
- Director(s)
- Péter BERGENDY
- Producer(s)
- Ábel KÖVES, Tamás LAJOS
- Synopsis
- As a result of the destruction caused by World War I and the Spanish Flu, countless spirits have become stranded in our world. Tomas, the young, wandering, post mortem photographer, ends up in a small Hungarian village during the freezing winter of 1918, after meeting a ten year-old orphan girl, Anna. But as he becomes more closely acquainted with the life of the place, he feels increasingly like he must escape it. The noises in the night, the village enveloped in hostility, the strange deaths, and the shadowy figures appearing in his photographs all prompt him to leave as soon as possible. Only a vision in the night and the certainty that ghosts exist, makes Tomás return to the village, his conscience and desire for action awakened.
  He decides that with the help of the instruments at his disposal, he will investigate the ghosts' intentions and will find a way to get free of them. The little girl accompanies Tomás's exciting exploration through all its dangers, but they find no clear answers; all the while, the spirits wreak greater havoc as each moment passes.