Syrian refugee Aryan’s attempt to cross the Hungarian border becomes an ill-fated journey. He is shot several times by the police during the incident but no one could foresee the consequences. The young man gains the ability to levitate... While also pointing out the corruption of Hungarian society, Jupiter’s Moon provides a surreal, visually breathtaking gloss on the brutal reality of the current refugee crisis.
Syrian refugee Aryan’s attempt to cross the Hungarian border becomes an ill-fated journey. He is shot several times by the police during the incident, but no one could foresee the consequences: The young man gains the ability to levitate. His new powers set in motion a series of misfortunes in the world around him. Personal and systemic corruption, a loss of faith, and the insecurity of a constant lack of money lead a burnt-out police officer named László and corrupt Dr. Stern into ever more extreme situations as they drag the naïve Aryan down with them. “I wanted to adopt a cinematic language that reflected the chaos, the tension, and the pressure that I feel every day in Budapest... I didn’t want it to let up even for a second,” says director Kornél Mundruczó about his visually breathtaking work, which presents the harsh situation in contemporary Europe, not just through its storyline but also through a stylistic mixture of genres.
Anna Kořínek
123 min / Color, DCP
Director Kornél Mundruczó
/ Screenplay Kata Wéber
/ Dir. of Photography Marcell Rév
/ Music Jed Kurze
/ Editor Dávid Jancsó
/ Art Director Márton Ágh
/ Producer Viktória Petrányi, Viola Fügen, Michael Weber, Michel Merkt
/ Production Proton Cinema
/ Coproduction Match Factory Productions, KNM, ZDF, Arte, Chimney
/ Cast Merab Ninidze, Zsombor Jéger, György Cserhalmi, Móni Balsai
/ Sales The Match Factory
/ Distributor Aerofilms
Kornél Mundruczó (b. 1975, Gödöllő, Hungary) studied acting and directing at the University of Theater and Film Arts in Budapest. He garnered international attention with his short movies AFTA: Day After Day (2001), Little Apocrypha No. 1 (2002), A Bus Came… (segment “Joan of Arc on the Night Bus,” 2003), Little Apocrypha No. 2 (2004), and Lost and Found – Short Lasting Silence (2005). His feature debut Pleasant Days (2002) won the Golden Leopard at Locarno for Best First or Second Feature. Mundruczó’s second picture, screened in Un Certain Regard at Cannes, was an adaptation of the story of Joan of Arc, entitled Johanna (2005). His third outing, Delta (2008), was named best film at Hungarian Film Week. His subsequent movies have made him a regular at Cannes: Tender Son: The Frankenstein Project (2010), White God (2014), and Jupiter’s Moon (2017). Audiences in Karlovy Vary, where Mundruczó sat on the main jury in 2005, have seen Pleasant Days and Delta.
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