Renowned Hungarian director Márta Mészáros stages a gripping family drama. Personal and cultural memories are interwoven, while secrets kept for decades finally come to light, creating a need to process repressed trauma. In her final role, stage and screen legend Mari Törőcsik plays an 80-year-old woman whose past, marked by emigration and Soviet atrocities, forces its way into the present, upending her own life and that of her daughter. With its non-linear form, AURORA BOREALIS – THE NORTHERN LIGHT tells of those memories that lie dormant, hidden in bodies and places.
Screenplay: Zoltán Jancsó, Márta Mészáros, Éva Pataki
Cinematographer: Piotr Sobocinski Jr.
Editor: Annamaria Szanto
Music: Ferenc Kovács
Sound: Tamás Beke, Tamás Dévényi, Máté Péterffy
Cast: Mari Törőcsik, Ildikó Tóth, Franciska Töröcsik, József Wunderlich, Eva Prosek, Antonio de la Torre, Jákob Ladányi, Ernõ Fekete, György Cserhalmi, Hary Prinz, Leslaw Zurek
Producer: István Major
Co-Producer: Gül Togay
Production Company: Filmteam
Co-Production Company: Nordic Productions
Print Owner: National Film Institute Hungary
Renowned Hungarian director Márta Mészáros stages a gripping family drama. Personal and cultural memories are interwoven, while secrets kept for decades finally come to light, creating a need to process repressed trauma. In her final role, stage and screen legend Mari Törőcsik plays an 80-year-old woman whose past, marked by emigration and Soviet atrocities, forces its way into the present, upending her own life and that of her daughter. With its non-linear form, AURORA BOREALIS – THE NORTHERN LIGHT tells of those memories that lie dormant, hidden in bodies and places.
Screenplay: Zoltán Jancsó, Márta Mészáros, Éva Pataki
Cinematographer: Piotr Sobocinski Jr.
Editor: Annamaria Szanto
Music: Ferenc Kovács
Sound: Tamás Beke, Tamás Dévényi, Máté Péterffy
Cast: Mari Törőcsik, Ildikó Tóth, Franciska Töröcsik, József Wunderlich, Eva Prosek, Antonio de la Torre, Jákob Ladányi, Ernõ Fekete, György Cserhalmi, Hary Prinz, Leslaw Zurek
