FUTNI MENTEM
GONE RUNNING
Performance
Vera has always fulfilled her husband Zoltán's every wish. While working through his bucket list, Zoltán suffers a heart attack whilst kart racing. All that remained to be done was the marathon. His widow resolves to honour his wish, together with her three adult daughters. They, however, are anything but enthusiastic and not particularly athletic.
Director Gábor Herendi, who has previously directed several hit films, both light-hearted and serious, in his native Hungary, fully exploits the storyline's comic potential whilst lending it an emotional side with its love stories. Each of the daughters is representative of a troubled lifestyle: Dorina, a tough lawyer, has no private life to speak of while Kata is held back by her two sons and her partner. Emma is unable to hold down a job for longer than six months and, on top of that, is having affair with her boss.
What begins as slapstick however quickly evolves into a fast-paced emancipation comedy that takes more than a few venomous swipes at the macho mentality of Hungary under Viktor Orbán. Incidentally, this remake of the 2019 Czech blockbuster WOMEN ON THE RUN received no funding from the state film funding programme – apparently, the film wasn’t good enough. Hungarian cinema audiences saw things differently however: Having attracted upwards of 736,000 viewers to Hungarian cinemas, GONE RUNNING has proved the second-most successful Hungarian film since 1990.
Text: Jörg Taszman
Tue 04.11. I 19:30 I GLAD-HOUSE I original version with English subtitles + simultaneous German translation
Réka Divinyi, Anna Miklya, Martin Horský (original Screenplay)
Péter Szatmári
Márk Szekrényi
Viktória Horváth, Zsolt Nánássy
Róbert Hrutka
Dorottya Udvaros, Réka Tenki, Rozi Lovas, Beatrix Trill, Márk Ember
Gábor Herendi - Gábor Herendi graduated in 1984 from the Faculty of Dentistry at Semmelweis University. During his university years, he was already working as an amateur filmmaker. From 1985 to 1991, he worked as an assistant lecturer at the Department of Prosthodontics at Semmelweis University.
In 1991, he gave up his dental profession and became the creative director of the BBDO Budapest advertising agency. Between 1993 and 1995, he was the creative director of Akció Advertising Agency. In 1994, he founded his own film production company, named Skyfilm Studio. Since 1996, he has been working as a freelance commercial director. In 2001, he directed his first feature film, Valami Amerika (A Kind of America), which, with nearly 600,000 viewers, became the most-watched film of the year.
Herendi is the most successful Hungarian director in terms of audience numbers since the regime change. Four of the ten most-watched Hungarian films are associated with his name.
Valami Amerika (2002)
Magyar vándor (2004)
Lora (2007)
Valami Amerika 2. (2008)
Kincsem (2017)
Valami Amerika 3. (2018)
Toxikoma (2021)
