Twilight (Hungarian: Szürkület) is a 1990 Hungarian crime film directed by György Fehér. It is a remake of the 1958 German film, It Happened in Broad Daylight, originally written by Swiss author Friedrich Dürrenmatt.
After discovering the murdered body of a young girl deep in a mountainous forest, a hardened homicide detective pushes himself to increasingly obsessive ends in his quest to catch the serial killer – known only as "The Giant" — responsible for the crime.[1]
The film premiered at the Locarno Film Festival in 1990, where it won the Bronze Leopard for Milós Gurbán's camerawork.[2] It was screened in the United Kingdom for the first time in 2012.[3] After being unavailable for many years, it was restored in 4K resolution by National Film Institute Hungary. Second Run released the film on Region B Blu-ray in 2023, using this restoration.[4] Theatrical distribution in the United States was by Arbelos Films.[5] Arbelos announced a Blu-ray release for late winter of 2024.[6]
Zoe Aiano in a review for the East European Film Bulletin wrote that "Despite its imperfections, Twilight is a masterpiece of world-building and tone that draws you in with its ominous allusions and the archetypal but effective use of remote village tropes to play on our darkest fears."[7]