The European Film Academy has selected László Csáki’s animated film Pelikan Blue among the best works of recent times, making it eligible for a nomination for the European Film Award in the documentary category.
Pelikan Blue is a humorous, nostalgic story based on true events about freedom and three good friends who forged international train tickets in the 1990s. The film, supported by the Film Institute, has already been seen by more than twenty thousand viewers in cinemas and continues to be featured in Hungarian movie theatres, garden cinemas, and open-air screening venues, the National Film Institute (NFI) announced.
The European Film Academy honours the most significant works of European cinema, with the prestigious European Film Awards being presented in Berlin every odd-numbered year and in another European city every even-numbered year. From the recently announced selection, Academy members will vote for the nominees for the European Film Awards. The 37th awards ceremony will be held in Lucerne, Switzerland, on 7 December.
This is the first feature-length Hungarian documentary using animation techniques;
it entertainingly and critically recounts the Hungarian train ticket forgery scandal of the 1990s.
The film, filled with Hungarian hits from the era, features real-life characters speaking in their own voices. The post-transition period is evoked by well-known Hungarian cult bands such as Bonanza Banzai, Kispál és a Borz, and Hiperkarma.
László Csáki, a writer-director awarded multiple times at the Hungarian Film Festival and the Kecskemét Animation Film Festival, and a recipient of the Balázs Béla Award, conducted interviews over several years with those whose lives were profoundly affected by the international travels they undertook with the forged train tickets created using Blue Pelican carbon paper.
The film was produced with the support of the Film Institute by Umbrella Entertainment in co-production with Cinemon Entertainment, with professional support from Réka Temple. The film is distributed by JUNO11 Distribution.
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