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A post mortem photographer and a little girl confront ghosts in a haunted village after the First World War.A post mortem photographer and a little girl confront ghosts in a haunted village after the First World War.A post mortem photographer and a little girl confront ghosts in a haunted village after the First World War.
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- TriviaPeter Bergendy's 'Post Mortem' (2020) was Hungary's official entry for the Oscars® in 2022. The film was screened on 50 international film festivals, selected for 24 main official competitions, and won 29 awards.
- GoofsSoon after the 27 min. mark: One of the post mortem pictures in the book the main character flips through is actually a lesser well known photograph of Lewis Carroll (autor of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland). Despite his hazy eyes (which he has in all of the photographs he is featured in) he is very likely alive in this picture as he lived to be 65 and the picture shows him in his 30s or 40s. (dating possibly from 1875).
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Post Mortem: Hungarian horror flick set in 1919 during the Spanish Flu pandemic. Thomas (Viktor Klem) is a post mortem photographer, often snapping the dead with their loved ones. He is with a travelling fair when a young girl, Anna (Fruzsina Hais) asks him to travel to her village to photograph the dead. He only agrees because Anna looks just like a girl he saw in a vision when he was wounded during WW1. The village is gloomy, some residents wear flour sacks over their heads "to fend off the Flu", the dead are stored in a barn, partially frozen due to the Winter cold. Strange events ensue, he hears running on the roof, as he sets up the dead to be photographed we see them move and weep. Shadows appear in the images he develops. He sets out to solve the mystery with the help of Anna who seems wise beyond her years. The spirits which infest the town are noisy ghosts indeed, Poltergeist effects occur, ranging from moving objects to levitation and killings. Only real Zombie but he appears in a terrifying scene. Great performances by Klem and Hais, with an eerie village and an atmosphere which captures the dread and despair of the time when the Spanish Lady stalked the world. Directed & Co-Written by Péter Bergendy. 8/10.
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- $2,800,000 (estimated)
- Gross worldwide
- $508,801
- Runtime1 hour 55 minutes
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- 2.39 : 1
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