| Director: | György Pálfi |
| Starring: | Kate Vernon Marshall Williams |
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| Runtime: | 108 |
His Master's Voice (Hungarian: Az Úr hangja,) is a 2018 Hungarian science fiction film by György Pálfi loosely based on the novel His Master's Voice by Polish science fiction writer Stanisław Lem.
The film follows a man who thinks he saw his father in a documentary about a mysterious incident in Colorado, around which a conspiracy theory had been formed. He embarks on the search of his father, who had fled Communist Hungary years ago.[1] [2] Eventually he finds his father, now a well-off university professor with a new family, but whose life is still affected by his previous work to decode the "message from space".[3]
The film was backed by a $2.54 million grant from the Hungarian National Film Fund.[4] While the majority of filming was in Hungary, His Master's Voice was also shot in various locations around Ottawa, Canada.[5] The film has elements of mockumentary, featuring shots with outdated cameras and formats.[6]
His Master's Voice premiered at the 2018 Tokyo International Film Festival.[7] [8] At the 2019 Fantasporto International Film Festival, the film received the prize for the Best Visual Effects.[9]