
Sunset (2015)
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Release Date: May 21 2015
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Sunset (Hungarian: Napszállta) is a 2018 Hungarian historical drama film co-written and directed by László Nemes. It is set in Budapest before World War I starring newcomer Juli Jakab and Vlad Ivanov. It premiered at the 75th Venice International Film Festival and was also screened at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival. It was selected as the Hungarian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 91st Academy Awards but it was not nominated. 1913 Budapest in the heart of Europe. The young Irisz Leiter arrives in the Hungarian capital with high hopes to work as a milliner at the legendary hat store that belonged to her late parents. She is nonetheless sent away by the new owner Oszkár Brill. While preparations are under way at the Leiter hat store to host guests of uttermost importance a man abruptly comes to Irisz looking for a certain Kálmán Leiter. Refusing to leave the city the young woman follows Kálmán's tracks her only link to a lost past. Her quest brings her through the dark streets of Budapest where only the Leiter hat store shines into the turmoil of a civilization on the eve of its downfall.