German title: Torzók – Vereinsamt Francaise title: Abandonné Spain title: Abandonados Russian title: Отверженные Original title: Torzók – Abandoned
Alternative titles: Torsos | Abandonada | Отверженный | Заброшенные
Drama – Hungary Production year: 2001 Movie length: 98 minutes
Director: Árpád Sopsits Writer: Árpád Sopsits Cinematograph: Péter Szatmári Music: Tamás Görgényi, Peter Pejtsik, Ferenc Toma, Balázs Winkler
Movie description:
After the death of his mother, a 9 year old boy is abandoned by his father at a boys’ reform school. There, our hero and his pals endure daily torture at the hands of a sadistic headmaster with paedophilic longings.
Áron is a happy child in his family. But at some point things take a different turn, and his mother starts to lose her health rapidly. As this happens, the man in charge decides what’s best for Áron without consulting the young boy’s opinion, and the boy finds himself thrown out of his warm home into an orphanage in the woods. He’s utterly displeased by what’s happening, without knowing he has yet to face much worse. After a hard time getting over the harrassment of his classmates and being accepted as one of them, another obstacle on the way to his peace of mind faces him: His obnoxious teachers. He has no intention of being bad, but it’s beyond his ability to blend into the revolting place he’s in. The nasty treatment of the teaching crew gets the better of him, and he’s not all that calm and passive anymore. But that leads into unpleasant events which Áron himself wouldn’t want.