ON BODY AND SOUL

ON BODY AND SOUL (TESTRÖL ÉS LÉLEKRÖL), 2016

Hungary |DCP, Color, 116´ |Hungarian

Director: Ildikó Enyedi

Cast: Géza Morcsányi, Alexandra Borbély, Zoltán Schneider

On Body and Soul follows the mystical love story of a shy man and a woman. Endre is the bookkeeper at a slaughterhouse near Budapest who falls head over heels for a surveillance officer named Maria, during her first sight visit to the slaughterhouse. But Endre is unable to open up to Maria, let alone acknowledge these feelings to himself. After a while, the pedantic, meticulous and just as introverted Maria and Endre realize that they have incidentally seen the same dream. The love that they can’t manifest in real life begins to intensify in the marvelous environment they meet at every night. Blending a poetic narrative with stark reality, the film won the Golden Bear top prize at the Berlin Film Festival in 2017.