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Original name: Elfogy a levegő
English name: Without Air
Year: 2023
Run time: 105 minutes
Language: Hungarian
Type (Colour/ Black & white): Colour
Country: Hungary
Director: Katalin Moldovai
Producer: András Muhi, Katalin Moldovai, Béla Attila Kovács
Cast: Ágnes Krasznahorkai, Áron Dimény, Tünde Skovrán, Soma Sándor, Zsolt Bölönyi, Ágnes Lőrincz
Screenplay: Zita Palóczi, Katalin Moldovai
Cinematographer: András Táborosi
Editor: Orsolya Soltész
Sound Designer: Gábor Kerekes
Music Composer: Tibor Cári
Costume Designer: Gyopár Bocskay
Production Designer: Gyopár Bocskay
Production Company: Spotfilm, Salamandra Film, Magma Cinema, Digital Fiction Studios
World Sales: National Film Institute Hungary
At the Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvanian in Cluj-Napoca, Romania she finished her BA degree in Film-Photo-Media studies in 2013. She continued her studies in Hungary at the Budapest Metropolitan University, where she earned her MA degree in Television and Film Directing. During this period, she directed short movies and a documentary film. Her latest short, As Up To Now (2019) was nominated for the Cinéfondation Award at the 72nd Cannes Film Festival. Without Air (2023) is her first feature-length film.
In a small Hungarian town, Ana Bauch is a dedicated and liberal-minded literature teacher within the public system. Beloved by her students for her unorthodox and creative approach, she assigned Agnieszka Holland’s 1995 Total Eclipse, depicting the relationship between 19th-century French poets Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine, so they can better understand Rimbaud’s poetry. When a conservative father interrupts his son Victor during the screening and hears of the assignment, he reports Ana to the school’s principal. Ana is accused of misconduct and spreading homosexual propaganda, and when the local media get wind of the brewing scandal, she faces even more scrutiny. In a system within which many have given up, Ana must decide to fight or to flee — perhaps to a restaurant job abroad.
