Screening Dates
  • November 28, 2017 8:45
Hungary

“Full of torrid passions, blazing saddles, and thundering hooves … A lively gallop.”

Stephen Dalton, The Hollywood Reporter

Hungary’s highest price-tagged film—a cool $10 million—is also its highest grossing homegrown hit in a decade! Based on the true story of the legendary thoroughbred Kincsem—to this day, the most decorated racehorse ever—Herendi’s lavish period piece, set in Budapest during the height of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, follows a penniless, orphaned playboy (Ervin Nagy) as he trains ​“untrainable” Kincsem into a record-breaking mare, and courts the high-society daughter of his father’s killer. In its decadent, 19th century costume design and set décor, Herendi’s domestic blockbuster resembles the eye-candy opulence of Baz Luhrmann’s most operatic works.