Szürkület Explained

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.

Summary

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]

Cast

Release and legacy

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]

Critical reception

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]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Twilight . 2023-12-31 . Arbelos Film Distribution . en-US.
  2. Web site: Twilight . 2023-12-31 . Film at Lincoln Center . en.
  3. Web site: The Quietus News György Fehér's Szürkület Screening! . 2023-12-31 . The Quietus . en-us.
  4. Web site: Second Run – Twilight . 2023-12-31 . www.secondrundvd.com.
  5. Web site: Twilight . 2023-12-31 . Arbelos Film Distribution . en-US.
  6. Web site: LE: Twilight – Blu-ray . 2023-12-31 . Arbelos Films . en.
  7. Web site: 2023-05-04 . György Fehér’s Twilight (Szürkület, 1990) – East European Film Bulletin . 2023-12-31 . East European Film Bulletin – . en-US.