The Winner (2014 film)

2014 Hungarian film

The Winner

A győztes
Directed by| Dávid Géczy
Written by| Dávid Géczy, Pál Laska
Screenplay by| Pál Laska, Dániel Farkas, Dávid Géczy
Based on| novel Szép magyar szótár
by Szilárd Podmaniczky[1]
Produced by|

* Janovics Zoltán
* Skrabski Fruzsina

Cinematography|

* Dániel Farkas (‘A’ camera)
* Róbert Ádok (‘B’ camera)
* Bálint Seres (diving photography)

Edited by| Attila Lecza
Music by| Márton Vojnits
Distributed by| Becsengetünk Produkció

Release dates

* 23 September 2014 (2014-09-23) (HU (Cinema City MOM Park))
* 30 August 2014 (2014-08-30) (HU (M1 (TV channel)))

Running time

| 20 minutes
Country| Hungary
Languages| Hungarian, English subtitled
Budget| HUF 10 000 000 (estimated)[2]

The Winner (Hungarian: A győztes) is a 2014 Hungarian short film directed by Dávid Géczy, starring Andor Lukáts and Iván Kamarás. The film is supported by Media Council Film[2] and Media Funding Scheme.[3]

## Plot

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It is a short fiction movie about an old swimming coach, István Kovács (Andor Lukáts), who won a gold medal at the 1980 Olympics in Moscow in swimming.

He gets a life-changing medical diagnosis. As a result, he has to abstain from any physical activity. By now all his fame and honour has faded, and he's stuck coaching undisciplined, useless children who'd never understand what it means to strive for something and achieve it. Every day he races against the younger version of himself (Iván Kamarás), unable to come to terms with his present circumstances. He decides to swim his top score from back at the Olympics. But this battle defeats him.

The film focuses on the question "is a winner really a winner?"

## Cast

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Andor Lukáts Iván Kamarás

* Andor Lukáts (old swimming coach and former Olympic swimming winner in 2014)
* Iván Kamarás (the young Olympic swimming winner in 1980)
* Eszter Földes (his wife)
* Simon Szemző (Simon, child)
* Tamás Racsek (Tomi, child)
* Máté Veczel (Máté, child)
* Adam Lux (doctor)
* Gergő Mikola (Ivan Popov, russian swimmer)
* Askar Shalov (Mongolian Swimmer)
* László Zinner (politician)

## Premiere and festival screenings

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* TV premiere: M1 (TV channel) - 30 August 2014[4]
* Budapest premiere: Cinema City MOM Park - 23 September 2014[5]
* Hungarian Film Week - October 2014[6]
* 25\. MEDIAWAVE Festival - April 2015[1]
* International premiere: Odense International Film Festival (OFF15) - August 2015[7]
* 11\. Busho International Short Film Festival - September 2015[8]
* 31\. Interfilm - Berlin International Short Film Festival - November 2015.[9]
* 13\. Bogotá Short Film Festival - Bogoshorts, Colombia \- December 2015[10][11][12]
* 12\. Akbank Short Film Festival, Turkey \- Istanbul \- March 2016 [13][14][15]

## References

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1. ^ a b "A győztes / The Winner". mediawavefestival.hu. Retrieved 2015-05-24.
2. ^ a b "Állami támogatásra jogosult és támogatásban nem részesülő filmek (NFGY/0624/2013)" [Eligible and unassisted movies for state aid] (xlsx) (in Hungarian). nmhh.hu (National Media and Infocommunications Authority). Retrieved 2015-06-07.
3. ^ "A Médiatanács 1133/2013. (VII. 10.) számú döntése a Huszárik Zoltán 2013 pályázati eljárás bírálóbizottsági ajánlásáról" (in Hungarian). mediatanacs.hu (Media Funding Scheme). 2013-06-27.
4. ^ "A győztes" (in Hungarian). NAVA (National Audiovisual Archive of Hungary). 2014-08-30.
5. ^ "A győztes" (in Hungarian). mediatanacs.hu (Media Funding Scheme). 2014. Retrieved 2015-05-25.
6. ^ "The Winner". filmhet.hu. Retrieved 2015-05-24.
7. ^ "OFF15 selection results". filmfestival.dk. 2015-05-19. Retrieved 2015-05-24.
8. ^ "11th Busho: Penalty! Aka "shooting an eleven"". busho.hu. 2015-08-27. Retrieved 2015-08-29.
9. ^ "interfilm FESTIVAL » Programme » Detail: A gyoztes /The Winner". interfilm.de. Retrieved 2015-10-26.
10. ^ "117 CORTOMETRAJES componen la Selección Oficial del 13º Bogotá Short Film Festival / Festival de Cortos de Bogotá". elfiltro.co. 2015-10-29. Retrieved 2015-11-10.
11. ^ "117 Cortometrajes componen la Selección Oficial del 13º Bogotá Short Film Festival". elfiltro.co. 2015-11-04. Retrieved 2015-11-10.
12. ^ "Pensando en corto: 13° Edición del Festival de Cortos de Bogotá, Bogoshorts". escenaindie.com. 2015-11-04. Retrieved 2015-11-10.
13. ^ "A győztes Hungary - Fiction". akbanksanat.com. Retrieved March 10, 2016.
14. ^ "12. Akbank Kısa Film Festivali (programfüzet)" (PDF). akbanksanat.com. pp. 244–245. Retrieved March 10, 2016.
15. ^ "Short Film Fest to bring colors of life to Istanbul". dailysabah.com. March 6, 2016.

## External links

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* The Winner at IMDb
* Berlinale 2015 Hungarian Film Magazine pp 70.
* THE WINNER, simplycynthi.hu Posted on 2014-10-13
* Privilege..., tundebodnar.com Posted on 2014-10-1
* The film can be viewed online at the Film Centre BEST OFF 15 for a year (this is a selection of the festival's best short films) - until the next Odense International Film Festival in August 2016th