Happy New Life (Boldog új élet) 17 years old

Árpád Bogdán's debut film seduces you with stylized visuals and an intensity that gives you an insight into the director's mind. His profound knowledge of the subject is evident throughout a film that is bereft of sex and violence. There is a poetic feel to the images that include a horse running wild on the streets of Budapest before it is caught and led into a horse trailer. The sequence is an eerie symbolic reminder of earlier visuals in the film of the young boy fleeing from parents/elders being arrested by police with the mother figure urging the child to run before he himself is caught and taken to an orphanage, psychologically scarred...(c) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0944188/reviews

Credits

Happy New Life Cast

Name Character
Zsolt Kovács He was 20, now 38 years old

Happy New Life Crew

Name Department
Andrea Flesch as Costume Design. Costume & Make-Up
Árpád Bogdán as Director. He was 30 (now 48) years old Directing
Árpád Bogdán as Writer. He was 30 (now 48) years old Writing
Happy New Life (17 years)

  • Release day: Thursday, February 01, 2007
  • Runtime: 80 minutes