Although Hungarian cinema will not benefit this year from the projectors of the various sections of the 75th Cannes Film Festival, it will be present at the Marché du Film (which starts today), in particular with the international sales team of the NFI (National Film Institute Hungary), headed by Klaudia Androsovits.

The line-up includes Péter Fazakas' The Game [+leggi anche:
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The plot? Counterintelligence officer András Jung (Zsolt Nagy) leads a perfect life: he is happily married to Éva (Gabriella Hámori), and the only thing standing between him and the promotion he wants is a competitive colleague, Kulcsár (Péter Scherer). When the legendary spy Pál Markó (János Kulka) returns in connection with an unsolved case, the twists and turns begin and so does a merciless battle where nothing and no one is what they seem and where a simple human gesture can cost one's life... A feature film produced by Tamás Lajos for Film Positive Prod. who also benefited from the talent of András Nagy (Post Mortem [+leggi anche:
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The NFI World Sales Cannes line-up also includes the documentary Katinka, the Movie by Norbert Palinkás, based on a script also written by Norbert Köbli, about the swimmer Katinka Hosszú, nicknamed the Iron Lady, three-time Olympic champion in Rio and nine-time world champion, who is preparing for the 2020 Tokyo Games when suddenly the pandemic suspends time... A Supermodern Stúdió production.

Finally, among the other completed titles negotiated by NFI World Sales at the Marché du Film, Kristóf Deák's The Grandson (read the news).