EXCLUSIVE: Ten years have passed since Hungarian filmmaker László Nemes won the Cannes Grand Jury Prize with his debut feature Son of Saul . In that time, Nemes has only released one other feature, 2018’s Sunset , but he’s back in Competition at Venice this year with a new work titled Orphan .

Set in 1957 Budapest, after the uprising against the Communist regime, the film follows a young Jewish boy, Andor, raised by his mother with idealized tales of his deceased father, who has his world turned upside down when a brutish man appears, claiming to be his true father. Newcomer Bojtorján Barábas stars as the young protagonist. The wider cast features Andrea Waskovics, Grégory Gadebois, Elíz Szabó, Sándor Soma, and Marcin Czarnik.

The film is produced by Ildiko Kemeny and Ferenc S

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