His Master's Voice (Hungarian: Az Úr hangja, lit. 'The Voice of The Lord') is a 2018 Hungarian science fiction film by György Pálfi loosely based on the novel His Master's Voice by Polish science fiction writer Stanisław Lem.
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| Directed by | György Pálfi |
| Starring | Kate Vernon Marshall Williams |
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Running time | 108 |
The film follows a man who thinks he saw his father in a documentary about a mysterious incident in Colorado, around which a conspiracy theory had been formed. He embarks on the search of his father, who had fled Communist Hungary years ago.[1][2][3] Eventually he finds his father, now a well-off university professor with a new family, but whose life is still affected by his previous work to decode the "message from space".[4]
The film was backed by a $2.54 million grant from the Hungarian National Film Fund.[5] While the majority of filming was in Hungary, His Master's Voice was also shot in various locations around Ottawa, Canada.[6] The film has elements of mockumentary, featuring shots with outdated cameras and formats.[7]
His Master's Voice premiered at the 2018 Tokyo International Film Festival.[8][9] At the 2019 Fantasporto International Film Festival, the film received the prize for the Best Visual Effects.[10]
References
edit- ^ "His Master's Voice" @ denverfilm.org
- ^ His Master's Voice at IMDb
- ^ HIS MASTER'S VOICE / Az Úr hangja Trailer
- ^ Anton Bitel, "His Master’s Voice first look: a voyage into an enigmatic universe of otherness" (film review at Fantasporto 2019)
- ^ "Cannes: Hungarian Film Fund Backs Kornel Mundruczo’s ‘Superfluous Man,’ Gyorgy Palfi’s ‘The Voice’"
- ^ "Film company turns Ottawa's wind tunnel into a space ship". Ottawa. 2016-08-04. Retrieved 2022-04-10.
- ^ "Őrült művészfilm lett a magyar Stanislaw Lem-adaptáció" [The Hungarian adaptation of Stanislaw Lem became a crazy feature film]
- ^ "【His Master's Voice】｜ 31st Tokyo International Film Festival". 2018.tiff-jp.net. Retrieved 20 June 2020.
- ^ "Premiere: His Master's Voice in competition at Tokyo IFF". National Film Institute. Retrieved 20 June 2020.
- ^ "FANTASPORTO 2019 39th OPORTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL" Archived 2020-11-16 at the Wayback Machine (retrieved October 27, 2019)