The Angelmakers
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| The Angelmakers | |
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| Directed by | Astrid Bussink |
| Release date(s) | 2005 |
The Angelmakers is a 2005 documentary, and the debut film of filmmaker Astrid Bussink. The documentary was selected for the First Appearance competition at the International Documentary Filmfestival Amsterdam.
The film is shot on location in the small Hungarian rural village of Nagyrév. Alternating between portraits of the surrounding landscape and first-hand narrations of the old inhabitants, the film is an attempt to give an insight into the 'arsenic' murders that tantalised the area in 1929. Depicting the desperation fuelled by male laziness and oppression which led some women to kill their men, a web of stories unfolds through the characters' memories which recapture old but ever-lasting tales of life, death and the struggle between the sexes. One of them is the midwife's story as well as one of the narrators' revelation that the 'flypaper' murders were a wide-spread practice not only in the particular area but on a national level. The film tries to give some insight in the domestic battles that the women of the village have to fight.
[edit] External links
- An article on the murders
- Another article on the murders (in Hungarian)
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