Hungarian film to open Shanghai fest

MUMBAI: Hungarian film Czuckor Show will be the opening film at the 13th Shanghai International Film Festival (SIFF) that opens on Saturday.

Producer Ferenc Pusztai said that he‘s hopeful that writer-director Tamás Dömötör‘s film will go well with Chinese audiences.

Czuckor is a love triangle that ends in suicide is inspired by a true story that first was dramatised on the stage in 2007.

The film will first screen at the SIFF and vie for the Jin Jue (Golden Goblet) award on 14 June.

Czuckor is a co-production of KMH Film and Dropout Films of Hungary and Anagram Produktion of Sweden.

The producers took a loan of 250,000 euros from the state-run Hungarian Film Fund for the making of the film.