A Woman Captured

A Woman Captured
Directed byBernadett Tuza-Ritter
Produced byJulianna Ugrin, Viki Reka Kiss
Edited byBernadett Tuza-Ritter
Music byCsaba Kalotás
Production
companies
  • Éclipse Film
  • Corso Film
Release date
  • 19 November 2017 (2017-11-19) (IDFA)
Running time
89 minutes
Country
  • Hungary
LanguageHungarian

A Woman Captured (Hungarian: Egy nő fogságban) is a 2017 Hungarian documentary film directed by Bernadett Tuza-Ritter about a woman who is kept as a domestic slave in Europe. It was the first Hungarian feature-length documentary to compete at the Sundance Film Festival.[1]

Overview

The film follows Marish, a 52-year-old woman in Hungary who is kept as a modern-day slave. She decides to escape the oppression and become free again.[2]

Release and critical reception

A Woman Captured had its world premiere at the International Feature-Length Competition of the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam on 19 November 2017. Later it competed at Sundance,[3] where it was nominated for Grand Jury Prize, and won the award for the Best Documentary at the Athens International Film Festival.[4] The film was one of the five nominees for the 2018 European Film Award for Best Documentary.[5]

See also

References

  1. ^ "A Woman Captured flying to SUNDANCE in 2018 - dok.incubator". 15 December 2017. Archived from the original on 2018-03-11. Retrieved 2018-10-26.
  2. ^ "EXCLUSIVE: IDFA Feature-Length Competition entry A Woman Captured reveals trailer".
  3. ^ ""Modern-Day Slavery is Happening in our Neighborhood….": Bernadett Tuza-Ritter on her Sundance Debut Feature, A Woman Captured | Filmmaker Magazine". 19 January 2018.
  4. ^ "A Woman Captured" – via www.imdb.com.
  5. ^ "European Film Awards 2018 Nominees | the Film Magazine". 12 November 2018.