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World Team (CWT) The company was founded in 1994 by young writers, musicians and amateur filmmakers aiming to produce low-budget horror movies and thrillers (based on Italian traditions) for the Hungarian film market. In the past years they have made many films and music videos including five feature films. They prefer special genres like horror, thriller or Tarantino-like comedies that are popular in Hungary but the "official" film industry has not so far embraced this kind of movies. The members of the team are not filmschool-educated filmmakers but they focus more on the audience's taste and so they are able to create movies that appease the cinemagoers. Our feature films Original title: Legyen vilagossag Produced by Cruel World Team (Hungary 1996) written and directed by Zsolt Bernath and Pal Juhasz videographed by Tamas Szentkuti edited and music by Zoltan Vegh special effects Csaba Miokovics cast Laszlo Turi, Janos Holinszky, Csaba Makovics About the movie: The team's first experiment to make a feature film with no financial support. It became a dark horror movie with technical support of the Dunaujvaros Regional Television and it featured non-professional actors. Although the producers didn't have a plan to particularly promote the movie, the printed media introduced it to a wider public and named it the first Hungarian horror film. It won a Special Award of the 28th Budapest Independent Film and Video Festival in 1996. In the article of the Splatting Image, the German filmmagazin it was referred to it as the first homemade horror film in Eastern-Europe. Running time: 66 minutes, medium: Beta SP video, DVD. Language: Hungarian The story: Tim Soldier works on a new generation of laser at a secret research facility. In an accident he suffers eyes injuries and he seeks help from a friend. His friend tells him about a mysterious doctor called Dr. Cool, who is believed to be able to help in special cases like Tim's. The doctor is not keen to help his friend so Tim decides to look for the doctor on his own. After all he finds him, but the result of the surgery is scarier than Tim had ever imagined...
Original title: Karhozat Produced by Cruel World Team (Hungary 1997) written and directed by Zsolt Bernath production coordinator Pal Juhasz videographed by Tamas Szentkuti edited and music by Zoltan Vegh special effects Csaba Miokovics cast Laszlo Turi, Krisztian Szendrodi, Zsolt Juhasz About the movie: Damnation is a low-budget movie without official financial support. This is Zsolt Bernath's first thriller based on his own story and this is the first independent attempt to make this kind of movie in Hungary. It was shot under amateur technical conditionals between 1997 March and September. The actors are the members, relatives and friends of the team. The postproduction process was carried out with the technical support of the Dunaujvaros Regional Television. This movie was presented in January 1998, and later on got in the program of the Hungarian Filmweek in 1999. Although the movie was successful among the Hungarian horror-fans, the producers couldn't find any video-distributors in Hungary to release it. Running time: 82 minutes, medium: Beta SP video, DVD. Language: Hungarian The story: An unsuccessful writer puts on an advert: he would write autobiography for anyone able and willing to pay for it. Soon a mysterious, in black dressed man arrives and offers a job to the author. The writer starts to work on the guest's story but meanwhile scary murders happen in the town: someone stalks at young girls. One of them survives, one understands the bloody visions, one remembers the past, one betrays his friend. A madman comes back from the childhood and in the end the circle closes. A dark, pessimistic story about the nature of nightmares. You have never seen similar before...
Original title: Hasfalmetszok Produced by Cruel World Team (Hungary 1999) written by Mark Kis-Szabo videographed by Tamas Szentkuti edited and music by Zoltan Vegh additional songs by Testimony lighting designer Viktor Marko cgfx Csaba Banhidai special effects Csaba Miokovics and Matyas Miokovics production designer Zsolt Juhasz production coordinator Pal Juhasz directed by Zsolt Bernath cast Gabor Csanalosi, Gabor Nagy, Gabor Budai, Laszlo Turi, Melinda Lombos, Zoltan Galauner, Zsolt Benke, Istvan Bartok, Bela Bene About the movie: See no evil is a low-budget movie without official financial support. The film was first presented in May 1999 in Dunaujvaros, Hungary and in Toldi Cinema in Budapest later on. In 1999 it had received a Blood Award at the 3rd Open Film Festival and First Prize at the 31st Independent Film and Video Festival in Budapest. The postproduction process was carried out with the technical support of the Dunaujvaros Regional Television. Distributed by Mirax on video in Hungary. Running time: 58 minutes, medium: Beta SP video, DVD. Language: English. The story: Two young hitmen (Moster and Puncher) are going to do their first job: they have to kill the wife of a rich businessman. The action has to happen at the mysterious Grandpa's house outside the valley. Meanwhile the wife gets to know the plan and she hires a killer to kill the husband. Moster and Puncher arrive to the house and face the unexpected reality: Grandpa had not left the house but killed a lot of people and had hidden them in the house. In the meantime the wife, the husband and the 3rd hitman arrives, Grandpa disappears, strange things start to happen in the near cemetery and then all hell breaks loose… Download
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Original title: Sohasevolt Gloria Produced by Cruel World Team / DTV (Hungary 2000) written by Mark Kis-Szabo videographed by Tamas Szentkuti edited and music by Zoltan Vegh lighting designer Viktor Marko cgfx Csaba Banhidai production designer Matyas Miokovics directed by Zsolt Bernath cast Gabor Csanalosi, Gabor Nagy, Gabor Budai, Gabor Hirth, Laszlo Nemeth, Gabriella Szaksz, Daniel Kis-Szabo About the movie: Mark Kis-Szabo the writer of See no evil won Prize for the best dialogues in Open Film Festival in 1997, First Award of the HBO's Screenwriter Competition with his first screenplay Cool job in 1999. He joined Cruel World Team in 1998. Neverbeen Gloria was presented at first on the 32nd Hungarian Filmweek in 2001. This movie won 3rd prize at the 8th Filmfestival of Students and Young Filmmmakers, and Award for the best gangster movie at the 5th Open Film Festival in Budapest. Running time: 105 minutes, medium: Beta SP video, DVD. Language: Hungarian The director on shooting the film ‘Neverbeen Gloria': The story of the movie was just what I needed to point out that I'm sick of having all my quasi horror films banned or censored here and there, so I wanted to do something both the industry and the audience will have to accept. We asked for ten million forints and got an answer in February saying: We are happy to announce you have been granted five million forints support for 35mm film. How these people could think a low-budget film would grovel another ten million to fund the transcription from video to celluloid I can't imagine, but they've basically given us another 10 mill in expenses, as well as granting us half of what we needed. Phonecall goes, a clipped voice explains the method of keeping amateurs out of the Hungarian movie industry, as we're merely farting around as opposed to the true pros who dedicate their entire life to film. The film's seven lead characters are Gloria the unusual girl, Buju and Tettó the desperate survivors, and Hevi, Bamba, Muszped and Ruszki, the four petty criminals attempting a post robbery. We knew the whole thing's success depends on the cast, so we worked a lot at them. A motley bunch assembled for all roles, and what's important: real faces. The rock singer's played by a rock singer, the graffiti-guy as himself, one of the episode-gangsters is an underworld figure of Budapest, the homeless is a homeless, the junkie a junkie, the director a director... The story: Two guys wake up in a morning after holding a crazy party and to they astonishment they see a stranger girl sitting in their room. The girl stays with them and hangs around with them and they introduce her their lifestyle that is close to full nihilism. Meanwhile at the other side of the town four gangsters are planning to rob a post office. They get weapons, hit the place and escape with the money after committing their bloody action. The two groups don't know yet that their fate is determined by each other actions and eventually everything will collide in a terrific showdown!
Originaltitle: Einstein Mega Shotgun Produced by Cruel World Team (Hungary 2003) written by Mark Kis-Szabo videographed by Tamas Szentkuti edited by Zsolt Bernath and Zoltan Vegh music by Zoltan Vegh lighting designer Viktor Marko directed by Zsolt Bernath cast Gabor Csanalosi, Gabor Hirth, Peter Jankovics and Marianna Fiath About the movie: Cruel World Team has kept a long break in 2001 after presenting the last movie Neverbeen Gloria, but they hoped that their film plans would get some official support. In the summer of 2003 it was clear that they wouldn't get anything from Hungarian Motion Picture Foundation. They took an old screenplay and started to organize the pre-production of Einstein.... They had very little money and time but the film would be ready by the 34th Hungarian Filmweek in February 2003. With this project they proved again that it's possible to make funny and popular films with little money. Running time: 70 minutes, medium: Beta SP video, DVD. Language: Hungarian The story: Two mentally challenged
burglars (with the nicknames Einstein and Shotgun) break into a house to rob it out.
Unfortunately they find the daughter of the owner there in the company of two crazy
hippies high on dope. Soon one of the hippies calls the police and so their chance to
escape vanishes. And if it's not enough: it turns out that the two burglars have won the
hugest sum of money in history of the country's lottery... and this is only the
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