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Unadorned, often funny documentary about inhabitants of the small village of Nagyrev, who talk about a large number of men from the village who died in 1929 through arsenic poisoning, prepared by their wives.
The small village of Nagyrev in the Hungarian countryside holds with a dreadful secret. It was discovered in 1929 that a large number of men from the village had been murdered. They had all died from the consequences of arsenic poisoning, carefully prepared by their wives. In this documentary, the modern-day villagers, some of whom were already alive at the time and some descendants of the assassins or their victims, try to reconstruct how things could go that far. The unadorned stories are sometimes funny, sometimes unexpectedly touching, just like the tranquil images Astrid Bussink shot of the daily life in the vanishing village, of women walking to the folk dance hall with a walking frame and of the old, self-appointed village guard who, halfway through his thrilling story about the day a melon was stolen, is called by his mother.

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Co-producer
Set geluid
Sound Design
Production company
Edinburgh College of Art
SZFE Budapest
Distributor NL
The Cinema Guild Inc.

Title: The Angelmakers
Year: 2005
Duration : 30 minutes
Category: Short Documentary
Edition: NFF 2006

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