László Nemes’ ‘Orphan’ Wraps 10-Week Shoot In Budapest; Releases First-Look Image
deadline.comOscar-winning Hungarian director László Nemes has wrapped filming on his long-awaited feature Orphan after a 10-week shoot in Budapest.
The production has released a first look image of 12 year-old newcomer Bojtorján Barabas in the lead role of Andor, the 12-year-old protagonist who learns about his own genesis in the ruins of the 1956 Hungarian uprising against the communist dictatorship.
The film follows the boy’s painful journey when a man appears from his mother’s past and he discovers the true story of her survival during World War II.
Andor has to come to terms with this man as a usurping father he only has hatred for. Orphan is Nemes’ third film after Sunset, which world premiered in Venice in 2018, and his Oscar-winning breakthrough Son of Saul, which won Cannes Grand Prize of the Jury in 2015, before clinching Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards the following year.
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