The District!

The District! (Hungarian: Nyócker!) is a 2004 Hungarian caricaturistic animated film directed by Áron Gauder. Its original title is a shortened colloquial form of nyolcadik kerület, the eighth district of Budapest, also known as Józsefváros, including an infamous neighbourhood where the film takes place. It is sometimes labelled as the Hungarian South Park.

For other uses, see The District (disambiguation).

Nyócker!
Directed byÁron Gauder
Produced byErik Novák
Music byErik Novák
Release date
  • 9 December 2004 (2004-12-09)
Running time
87 minutes
CountryHungary
LanguageHungarian
Budget525,000 USD

It has been distributed in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, United Kingdom, France, the Benelux countries, Romania, Poland, Portugal and Taiwan, and it is going to be shown in the United States.

It was also shown at film festivals in Helsinki, Toronto, Copenhagen, Zagreb, Karlovy Vary and the below venues and it will be shown in Warsaw, Vancouver and São Paulo.

The animated technique for this movie was rather innovative. The artists took 350 headshot pictures of each actor and used these photos for the expressing emotions and the animation of the heads. The bodies were hand drawn.[1]

Plot

The film displays the Hungarian, Roma, Chinese and Arab dwellers and their alliances and conflicts in a humorous way, embedded into a fictive story of a few schoolchildren's oil-making time-travel and a Romeo and Juliet-type love of a Roma guy towards a white girl.

Cast and crew
Directed by
Áron Gauder
Screenplay
Máriusz Bari
Viktor Nagy
Erik Novák
László Jakab Orsós
Produced by
Erik Novák
Original Music by
Erik Novák
Cast[2]
voice actorface actorcharacternotes
L.L. JuniorKrisztián RostásRicsi Lakatos Main character, Roma kid
László SzacsvayJózsef NémethGuszti Lakatos Ricsi's grandfather
Károly GesztesiLászló Jakab OrsósLóránt "Lóri" Lakatos Pub owner, Ricsi's father
Győző SzabóKároly "Karesz" Csorba Nightclub owner, Lóri's rival
Gábor CsőreKristóf NovákSimon "Simi" Csorba Karesz's son, Ricsi's rival
?Chen Chinese kid
Andrea RoatisKriszti SzénásiJulika Csorba Karesz's daughter, Ricsi's love interest
Dorka GryllusFanny VolcsánszkyMari Lakatos Ricsi's sister, Simon's love interest
Judit JónásRózi Lakatos Gypsy fortune teller, Guszti's wife and head of the family
István BetzErno BáderSandokan Kolompár Ricsi's fearless friend
András FaragóIstván NagyKolompár Sandokan's father
Zoltán RajkaiGyula HorváthAbdul Arab kid
Csaba Krisztián CsíkAndrás MolnárOmar Abdul's father
Barnabás Szabó SiposZsolt LengyelDr. Zsírvágó Jewish gynecologist and plastic surgeon. The name literally means "fat-cutting doctor"
Balázs SimonyiMáriusz BariMóricka Geeky, genius kid, Zsírvágó's son
Sándor BadárBadár Policeman
János HorváthJános HorváthVizy Policeman
Csaba PindrochBéluska "Bélus" Vizy's son
Anna OroszÉva JárvásÁgi néni Teacher
Andrea FullajtárZsuzsa KocsisIrina
Nóra PartiRenáta KósaAnett
Éva DögeiVeronika GrófIsaura
Mike KellySimon JózsefSteve CIA agent

Awards
Date Award Festival Location Link obs
2004-12 Best Visual Expression Magyar Filmszemle Hungary
2005-06-11 Cristal for best feature Annecy International Animated Film Festival Annecy, France ^
2005-08-19 Grand Prize Seoul International Cartoon and Animation Festival Seoul, South Korea
2005-09-25 Mercury Filmworks Grand Prize For Animated Feature Ottawa International Animation Festival Ottawa, Ontario, Canada ^
2005-09-28 Best Animated Feature KROK International Animated Films Festival Russia ^
2005-10-13 Best Animated Film Festival de Cine de Sitges Sitges, Spain
2005 Cross of Merit of the Republic of Hungary Hungary ^
2005 Best Hungarian Feature; Kecskemét City Award KAFF (Kecskemét Animation Film Festival) Kecskemét, Hungary
2005 Golden Zagreb award Animafest Zagreb Zagreb, Croatia
2006 Best Feature Anima Spain
2006 Best Feature CUFF 2006 (Calgary Underground Film Festival) Zagreb, Canada
2006 Best feature; Audience Award Anima (film festival) Belgium
2007 Lisbon City Prize Monstra Festival Lisbon, Portugal

Notes:

  • ^Note a : The panel was shocked at the technological modernity of the film and at learning that it was only made from 105 million HUF (525,000 USD).
  • ^Note b : "For its visual innovation, energetic style, and fearless satire of contemporary culture and politics"
  • ^Note c : On the board Princess of Dneper — out of 130 films from 36 countries of the world.
  • ^Note d : Awarded to Director Aron Gauder

Festivals

The film has been presented in several film festivals across the world, including:

  • "Website in English: News, story, cast, hint, trailer, film stills". Archived from the original on 25 May 2007.
  • Official website (in Hungarian)
  • The District! on IMDb

References
  1. Nyócker! (2004) - Trivia at IMDB
  2. Nyócker - Szereplők (karakterek) Archived 2 October 2011 at the Wayback Machine (in Hungarian)
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