Explanation for Everything

Synopsis

It’s summer in Budapest, high school student Abel is struggling to focus on his final exams, whilst coming to the realisation that he is hopelessly in love with his best friend Janka. The studious Janka has her own unrequited love with married history teacher Jakab – who had a previous confrontation with Abel’s conservative father. The tensions of a polarised society come unexpectedly to the surface when Abel’s history graduation exam turns into a national scandal.

Awards

80TH Venice International Film Festival, Orizzonti (Horizons) section

Cast

Ábel
Gáspár Adonyi-Walsh
György
István Znamenák
Jakab
András Rusznák
Erika
Rebeka Hatházi
Dorka
Eliza Sodró
Janka
Lilla Kizlinger
Judit
Krisztina Urbanovits

Crew

director, screenwriter
Gábor Reisz
producer
Júlia Berkes
co-producer
Mátyás Prikler
executive producers
Viktória Petrányi
Kornél Mundruczó
Eszter Gyárfás
Judit Sós
co-writer
Éva Schulze
cinematographer
Kristóf Becsey
editor
Vanda Gorácz
Gábor Reisz
dramaturg
Zsófi Reisz-Varga
Juli Jakab
production designer
Zsófia Tasnádi
costume designer
Rebeka Hatházi
sound
Richard Fűlek
Péter Balogh
original score
András Kálmán
Gábor Reisz
production manager
Fruzsina Czvetkó
Olivér Szendrey-Nagy
first assistant director
Donát Seres
unit manager
Helga Haiman
second assistant director
Hanga Júlia Bús
art director
Maya Angelus
Blanka Lukács
still photographer
Réka Vajda