THE MAN FROM LONDON (A Londani Ferfi) (Hungary)
The Story:
Maloin (Miroslav Krobot) who works the signal box of a boat-train connection in a small French port. As pic begins, a boat from London is just discharging its passengers at night on to the waiting train, and from his eyrie above the harbour Maloin sees a small case thrown from the boat to a man waiting on the other side of the harbor.
Soon, the man who retrieves the case is in a struggle with another, and the former drowns in the harbor, taking the case with him. Maloin retrieves the case from the sea and finds a stash of English banknotes inside, which he painstakingly dries on his signalbox's stove.
Back home, Maloin lives a dreary life with his wife (Tilda Swinton) and daughter, Henriette (Erika Bok), whom he drags from her job swabbing floors in a small fooderie. When an English cop, Insp. Morrison (Istvan Lenart), arrives from London, Maloin realises he's stumbled on a £60,000 ($120,000) stash stolen by a certain Brown (Janos Derzi). The man who drowned that night was Brown's associate, Teddy.
Maloin who once lived a life of quiet solitude is forced to wrestle with such profound issues as punishment, mortality, and the sin of complicity in a crime he didn't even commit. Now, despite Maloin's simple wish to be free and happy, he must journey deep within his inner-self to confront emotions that he never once fathomed in his long yet uneventful existence.
Starring:
Tilda Swinton, Miroslav Krobot, Janos Derzsi, Volker Spengler, Agi Szirtes, Erika Bot
Directed By:
Bela Tarr and Agnes Hranitzky
Release:
2007
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