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We do not know why this man, played by
Luc Schiltz (
Capitani) intelligently and with great originality, lands on the shores of Norway’s northernmost territory. This desolated and splendid land situated beyond the arctic circle counts around 2,000 inhabitants. Many of them are foreign workers who need no visas to work: the region’s legal framework, beyond the realm of Norwegian taxation laws, allows anyone to exploit the resources of this land situated at the edge of the world. In the Soviet era, many Russian people were here. They even founded an industrial town, now a ghost town (it is worth reading Kjartan Fløgstad’s excellent essay
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Natural Light Review: Fixed Stoicism Shields From the Ravages of War Natural Light Review: Fixed Stoicism Shields From the Ravages of War
The immovable face of a Hungarian soldier patrolling Russian forests is meant to convey the horror and exhaustion of war in Dénes Nagy s cerebral yet unemotional debut.
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Director: Dénes Nagy
With: Ferenc Szabó, Tamás Garbacz, László Bajkó,
Gyula Franczia, Ern?‘ Stuhl, Gyula Szilágyi, Mareks Lapeskis, Krisztián Kozó, József Barta, Aivars Kuzmins, Liene Kislicka, Csaba Nánási, Zsolt Fodor. (Hungarian, Russian dialogue)
Running time: Running time: 103 MIN.
Shocking WWII Berlin Fest Competition Drama Natural Light Gets First Trailer (EXCLUSIVE)
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Set in icy marshland in Russia during WWII, “Natural Light” accompanies corporal István Semetka, drafted into a Hungarian unit whose mission is to locate and kill Russian partisans hiding in the woodlands.
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Lodging at a benighted village whose houses are wooden shacks, its peasantry slopping down its muddy street sometimes shoe-less, Semetka’s company takes a route out of the hamlet recommended by the head of the village and comes under guerrilla fire, the company head being killed. When a sergeant major arrives to take command, the reprisal against the village will no doubt haunt Semetka for the rest of his days.