Bolshe Vita, a road movie set in post-communist Central Europe has proved a surprise hit at the LFF this week. Tickets were quickly snapped up by a London audience eager to view tomorrow's screenings of the award-winning Hungarian-German co-production. Directed by Ibolya Fekete, who won both the Foreign Critics' award and Best First Feature for her directorial debut, it also stars Cardiac Arrest's Helen Baxendale as a rebellious travelling Brit.
The film, set in 1989, tells the story of five likeable transients in Budapest. There are two wacky musicians - guitarist Yura and sax player Vadim - who are both heading for a gig in Belgrade; a knife seller named Sergei who is trying to pay his way to Yugoslavia; and friends Maggie (Baxendale) from the UK and Susan from Texas, who have ended up in Hungary because that's "where all the excitement is". The five characters eventually all meet up in the bar Bolshe Vita, but soon reality starts to intrude on the "short but memorable period when East Europe was happy".
Ann Marie Corvin
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