Genesis [+], Hungarian filmmaker Árpád Bogdán's second film, after 2007's Happy

New Life [+], takes as its basis a 2009 incident in which a group of neo-Nazis attacked
a Roma village with Molotov cocktails, fighting dogs and hunting rifles. Split into three
chapters focusing on three characters all connected to the attack in various ways, it is a
strong sensorial experience that on one hand deeply immerses the viewer in the
atmosphere, but does not manage to fully keep its footing on the narrative level. The
film world-premiered in the Berlinale's Panorama section. 
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The first chapter is the strongest, and it is named after young Roma boy Ricsi (Milán
Csordás), whose father has just been sentenced to two years in prison. Bogdán gives
us a living, breathing picture of life in a Roma camp from the boy's perspective,
complete with scenes of pig slaughter and sale, burning garbage, a game of football
played on a makeshift pitch surrounded by sheep… Until the village is attacked and
Ricsi, although hit by buckshot, manages to escape while his mother gets killed.

Genesis [+], Hungarian filmmaker Árpád Bogdán's second film, after 2007's Happy

New Life [+], takes as its basis a 2009 incident in which a group of neo-Nazis attacked
a Roma village with Molotov cocktails, fighting dogs and hunting rifles. Split into three
chapters focusing on three characters all connected to the attack in various ways, it is a
strong sensorial experience that on one hand deeply immerses the viewer in the
atmosphere, but does not manage to fully keep its footing on the narrative level. The
film world-premiered in the Berlinale's Panorama section. 
(The article continues below - Commercial information)
The first chapter is the strongest, and it is named after young Roma boy Ricsi (Milán
Csordás), whose father has just been sentenced to two years in prison. Bogdán gives
us a living, breathing picture of life in a Roma camp from the boy's perspective,
complete with scenes of pig slaughter and sale, burning garbage, a game of football
played on a makeshift pitch surrounded by sheep… Until the village is attacked and
Ricsi, although hit by buckshot, manages to escape while his mother gets killed.

Genesis [+], Hungarian filmmaker Árpád Bogdán's second film, after 2007's Happy

New Life [+], takes as its basis a 2009 incident in which a group of neo-Nazis attacked
a Roma village with Molotov cocktails, fighting dogs and hunting rifles. Split into three
chapters focusing on three characters all connected to the attack in various ways, it is a
strong sensorial experience that on one hand deeply immerses the viewer in the
atmosphere, but does not manage to fully keep its footing on the narrative level. The
film world-premiered in the Berlinale's Panorama section. 
(The article continues below - Commercial information)
The first chapter is the strongest, and it is named after young Roma boy Ricsi (Milán
Csordás), whose father has just been sentenced to two years in prison. Bogdán gives
us a living, breathing picture of life in a Roma camp from the boy's perspective,
complete with scenes of pig slaughter and sale, burning garbage, a game of football
played on a makeshift pitch surrounded by sheep… Until the village is attacked and
Ricsi, although hit by buckshot, manages to escape while his mother gets killed.