Director: György Pálf
Country: Hungary
Year: 2002
Runtime: 75 minutes
Language: Hungarian with English subtitles
Awards: Budapest - 33rd Hungarian Film Week - Best
First Film/Gene Moskowitz Prize of foreign critics, San Sebastian Film
Festival -Special Prize of the Jury - New Director's section,
Kijev-Molodist Film Festival - Special Prize for an outstanding
artistic contribution, Special Mention - FIPRESCI, Prize for the best
debut - Student Jury/Audience Prize, Santa Fé Film Festival -
Milagro Prize, European Film Academy - European Discovery - Fassbinder
Award, Cleveland Film Festival - Prize of East European section, Mamers
Film Festival - Main Prize/Prize of Art Cinemas' Regional Association,
Torun Young European Film Festival Main Prize - ex-aequo, Hong Kong
International Film Festival - Golden Firebird Award, Official entry of
Hungary for the Academy Awards - Prize of Hungarian Film Critics
HUKKLE does NOT mean hiccup in Hungarian; it is a coined word which
attempts to recreate how a hiccup sounds to an Hungarian. And you’ll
know why from the opening frame. This may be the most unusual film
you’ll ever see. It recreates daily life in an Hungarian village. The
main characters are human and animals, almost more animals than humans.
The film is virtually without dialogue; whatever dialogue exists is
barely audible in the background, while the sounds of village life are
foregrounded. Nothing happens in such a village, right?—unless it is
murder. Watch carefully for the clues. While HUKKLE is not an
experimental film, it is definitely innovative and will most appeal to
buffs who revel in new directions in filmmaking. It is startling in its
originality. In Hungarian (when there's dialogue). ~ Nick Salerno
Principal Cast: Ferenc Bandi, Mrs. Rácz,
József Farkas, Ferenc Nagy, Mrs. Nagy, Ági Margitai,
Eszter Ónodi, Attila Kaszás
Writer: György Pálfi
Producers: Csaba
Bereczki, András Böhm
Cinematographer: Gergely
Pohárnok
Film Editor:
Ágnes Mógor
Official Website: http://www.hukkle.hu/static/statikus.htm