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