A short film co-produced by the Arad Chamber Theater was presented last week at the first edition of the Hungarian Film Week in Budapest, reported romania-insider.com. Agape, is one of the two common projects of the Hungarian theater from Western Romanian city and Mirage Film Studio from Budapest, and was financed by the Hungarian Media Sponsorship Program in 2013.
Agape presents life on a typical farm, where time seems to have stopped, from the perspective of an old couple. The main roles are played by awarded Hungarian actors, including Péter Haumann and Romanian born Katalin Lázár. The film was directed by Ottó Bánovits, known for being the screenwriter of “Awake”, a film that was presented at Cannes International Film Festival last year. The film and one other international co-production, titled Stage fright, will be presented in Arad in early 2015.
The international artistic collaboration, however, is set to continue as another project of the theater and the Hungarian company was selected for financing in 2014. Shooting is planned to begin next March, while the total budget of the three films is almost EUR 50.000 (HUF 15 million), and all of them will be presented on the Hungarian public television.
via romania-insider, photo Arad Chamber Theater