Produced by Istvan Bodzsar for Unio Film the film will star former Shooting Stars Zsolt Nagy (Nimrod Antal’s Kontroll, Peter Bergendy’s The Exam) and Dorka Gryllus (Fatih Akin’s Soul Kitchen, Sam Garbarski’s Irina Palm), and Geza Hegedus D. (Gyorgy Palfi’s Taxidermia)

The 45 day shoot begins this week with completion set for early 2017.

BRIDGE OF SIGHS is based on the true life scandal that took place in 1925 Budapest. Butcher FERENC KUDELKA - the owner of the largest abattoir in Budapest - fell passionately in love with MICI SCWARTZ the wife (and ex-prostitute) of a former gendarme officer GUSZTÁV LÉDERER.  With the full knowledge and assistance of her husband Kudelka was able to spend hours of pleasure with Mici in return for a small fee.
A wild and voracious love triangle develops as the three are slowly sucked into a world of sinful existence. At the same time Léderer and his wife were stealing  money from the butcher.  As their greed grew, there was eventually only one alternative -  Kudelka had to disappear.
After two unsuccessful attempts the Léderer couple finally succeeded in killing Kudelka - a gruesome execution of drugging him with his lover Mici, then shooting him and finally dismembering his body and disposing of the body parts throughout Budapest.
The film will have a contemporary take on the excitement, eroticism and eccentricity of Budapest in the 1920s.

JANOS SZASZ, film and stage director, was born in 1958. He is a tutor at the Academy of Theatre and Film Arts, Budapest. His films include Woyzeck (1993), which won, amongst others, the European Film Award for Best Young European Film of the Year and The Witman Boys (Un Certain Regard, Cannes 1997). He also won Best Director Award at the Moscow IFF for Opium – Diary of a Madwoman, 2007.
His latest film The Notebook (2013), with Ulrich Thomsen and Ulrich Matthes, was awarded Karlovy Vary Crystal Globe and has been shortlisted for Best Foreign Language Oscar and released by Sony Pictures Classic in cinemas in the US.

Other key departments include:
Screenplay: Janos Szasz and Mark Bodzsar
DoP: Tibor Mathe H.S.C. (Szasz previous Woyzeck, The Witman Boys, and Ildiko Enyedi’s Cannes Camera d’Or winner My 20th Century)
Art director: Gabor Valcz (Moscow Square, Swing)