His Master's Voice (2018 film)
Directed by | György Pálfi |
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Starring | Kate Vernon Marshall Williams |
Release dates
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2018 |
Running time
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108 |
His Master's Voice (Hungarian: Az Úr hangja, lit. The Voice of The Lord) is a 2018 Hungarian science fiction film by György Pálfi loosely based on the novel His Master's Voice by Polish science fiction writer Stanisław Lem.
The film follows a man who thinks he saw his father in a documentary about a mysterious incident in Colorado, around which a conspiracy theory had been formed. He embarks on the search of his father, who had fled Communist Hungary years ago.[1][2][3] Eventually he finds his father, now a well-off university professor with a new family, but whose life is still affected by his previous work to decode the "message from space".[4]
The film was backed by a $2.54 million grant from the Hungarian National Film Fund.[5] While the majority of filming was in Hungary, His Master's Voice was also shot in various locations around Ottawa, Canada.[6] The film has elements of mockumentary, featuring shots with outdated cameras and formats.[7]
His Master's Voice premiered at the 2018 Tokyo International Film Festival.[8][9] At the 2019 Fantasporto International Film Festival, the film received the prize for the Best Visual Effects.[10]
References
- ↑ "His Master's Voice" @ denverfilm.org
- ↑ Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). His Master's Voice at IMDb
- ↑ HIS MASTER'S VOICE / Az Úr hangja Trailer
- ↑ Anton Bitel , "His Master’s Voice first look: a voyage into an enigmatic universe of otherness" (film review at Fantasporto 2019)
- ↑ "Cannes: Hungarian Film Fund Backs Kornel Mundruczo’s ‘Superfluous Man,’ Gyorgy Palfi’s ‘The Voice’"
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- ↑ "Őrült művészfilm lett a magyar Stanislaw Lem-adaptáció" [The Hungarian adaptation of Stanislaw Lem became a crazy feature film]
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- ↑ "FANTASPORTO 2019 39th OPORTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL" (retrieved October 27, 2019)