Synopsis

Three teenagers, three violent crimes, three destinies. In 1984 at the age of 14 to 15 Pali,Jószef and Zsolt each commited a murder that was bound to change their lives forever. In 1985 the three boys had been already interviewed in the prison for a documentary The Fallen. Nearly thirty years later their lives are getting looked into once again, now by a Hungarian director Marcell Gerö. He engages into conversation with grown men, not kids anymore, and is looking to find answers to crucial questions. What do they think of their deeds back then? How did the long-term life of imprisonment change them? How did their relatives and friends come to terms with the situation? Gerö masterfully places old archival data opposite of the new material. Both records of that time and of the present, the interviews and meetings, show the subjects in an intimate atmosphere of telling personal stories. The quiet speech of Pali, Jószef and Zsolt creates a peculiar, impressive and arresting aura where we can witness distinct traces of the past in the way their histories reveal themselves. This precise documentary revision of the case is a place where the trio can eventually reach a kind of atonement, and is also means of touching upon certain points of the Hungarian history.

Guests

Rudolf Peter Kiss

Rudolf Péter Kiss
Cinematographer Cain's Children 
In Vienna: October 7-8