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Katalin Varga

Directed by Peter Strickland
Romania/UK/Hungary, 2009, 82 minutes
Cast: Hilda Peter, Norbert Tankó, Tibor Pálfy, Melinda Kántor, László Matray, Roberto Giacomello, Sebastian Marina
Production: Libra Film, Peter Strickland production, in association with Hai-Hui Entertainment

When her husband learns that he’s not the father of their son Orbán, Katalin is banished by her husband and her village, and left with no other choice than to set out on a quest to find the real father of her son. Taking Orbán with her under other pretences, Katalin travels through the Carpathians where she decides to reopen a sinister chapter from her past and take revenge. The hunt leads her to a place, she prayed eleven years prior, she would never set foot in again.