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Year of production : 2013

Director(s) : Matyas PRIKLER
Writer(s) : Marek LESCAK, Matyas PRIKLER
Cast : Attila MOKOS, Miroslav KROBOT, Bela VARADY, Vladimir OBSIL, Zuzana MAURERY, Jana OLHOVA, Istvan OLASZ, Daniela PRIBULLOVA, Abel CSEKES, Barbora ILLITHOVA

Producer(s) : Matyas PRIKLER (MPHILMS)

Fine, Thanks is a feature-length film consisting of three main stories and an epilogue. The stories take place
during the current financial crisis that affects the intimate lives of the characters and reveals a harsh picture
of their twisted relations. The applied narrative method, which is based on observation and borders on documentary
filmmaking, is also the key approach in portraying a world that is losing morals but has not yet lost
all hope.
The first story is focused on Miroslav, a man of means with his own way of dealing with problems in his
company, the troubles of his brother, and the sadness of his wife, who is an alcoholic. The second story
is about Béla. Béla is a pensioner whose wife died and his children put him in a retirement home because
he was no longer needed. The third story is about Béla’s son, Attila. He lost his job and his marriage is
falling apart. His efforts at keeping his family together lead to the worst Christmas he, his wife Zuza, and his
chidren have ever had. The film concludes with the wedding of Dana, Miroslav’s daughter, and Pista, Attila’s
relative, and this occasion brings most of the film’s characters together. They are all enjoying themselves at
the Slovak - Hungarian wedding: they eat and drink and dance till morning as they try to forget all that was
and hope for better days. The film is based on real-life situations that the filmmakers saw around them. The
movie applies methods of documentary filmmaking as it reflects the times and the world we live in.