The Seventh Circle (A hetedik kör)
German title: Der siebte Kreis
Greek title: Ο 7ο Κύκλος
Russian title: Седьмой круг
Original title: A hetedik kör
Greek title: Ο 7ο Κύκλος
Russian title: Седьмой круг
Original title: A hetedik kör
Drama – Hungary
Production year: 2007
Movie length: 107 minutes
Production year: 2007
Movie length: 107 minutes
Director: Árpád Sopsits
Writer: Árpád Sopsits
Writer: Árpád Sopsits
Movie description:
We have become accustomed to thinking, and like to believe that our children are innocent, yet evil is somewhere there in their souls too. Because of their existing at the mercy of others and their gullibility they are even at risk of becoming victims (e. g. sects and Satanism). This is a fact, which is of worldwide relevance.
The film is based on the motifs of two inconceivable and tragic events that recently took place in Hungary. The film primarily presents the atmosphere in which such things have actually happened and the situations in which they can happen, and delivers a kind of diagnosis of the confused psyche of the times in which we live. The story is about teenagers, their odd way of experiencing life and death at the stage when both sexual desires and a wish for death awaken simultaneously in children’s souls.
Director Árpád Sopsits’s »The Seventh Circle« closes a trilogy which follows child and adolescent generations between the years 1957 and 2007 (the first two films in the trilogy are »Shooting Gallery«, 1989, and »Abandoned«, 2001). The film, whose title makes reference to the seventh circle of hell from Dante’s Divine Comedy, tells the story of a gang of rural teenagers who, after the arrival of the mysterious boy Sebestyén, start experimenting to see just how far they can go. The priest Gábor, who senses approaching danger, tries to set the children on the right track. In his film, Sopsits questions the presumed innocence of children and also reflects on the significance of faith in God in the modern world. The director himself characterised his work as »an incredibly sad prophecy and presentation of the state of the world.« His unsettling philosophical drama which steps over the boundary of reality was based on the motifs of two tragic events which recently occurred in Hungary.
The film is based on the motifs of two inconceivable and tragic events that recently took place in Hungary. The film primarily presents the atmosphere in which such things have actually happened and the situations in which they can happen, and delivers a kind of diagnosis of the confused psyche of the times in which we live. The story is about teenagers, their odd way of experiencing life and death at the stage when both sexual desires and a wish for death awaken simultaneously in children’s souls.
Director Árpád Sopsits’s »The Seventh Circle« closes a trilogy which follows child and adolescent generations between the years 1957 and 2007 (the first two films in the trilogy are »Shooting Gallery«, 1989, and »Abandoned«, 2001). The film, whose title makes reference to the seventh circle of hell from Dante’s Divine Comedy, tells the story of a gang of rural teenagers who, after the arrival of the mysterious boy Sebestyén, start experimenting to see just how far they can go. The priest Gábor, who senses approaching danger, tries to set the children on the right track. In his film, Sopsits questions the presumed innocence of children and also reflects on the significance of faith in God in the modern world. The director himself characterised his work as »an incredibly sad prophecy and presentation of the state of the world.« His unsettling philosophical drama which steps over the boundary of reality was based on the motifs of two tragic events which recently occurred in Hungary.
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