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Jupiter's Moon / Jupiter holdja DVD 2017 / Actors: Merab Ninidze, Zsombor Jéger, György Cserhalmi, Péter Haumann, Tamás Szabó Kimmel Director: Kornél Mundruczó
UPC 5999546338140
- Language: Hungarian (Dolby Digital 5.1)
- Subtitles: English, Hungarian
- Region: Region 2 PAL DVD
Playtime 123 minutes
Jupiter's Moon (Hungarian: Jupiter holdja) is a 2017 Hungarian drama film directed by Kornél Mundruczó.
It competed for the Palme d'Or in the main competition section at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival.
Cast:
Merab Ninidze as Gábor Stern
György Cserhalmi as László
Mónika Balsai as Vera
Zsombor Jéger as Aryan Dashni
Péter Haumann
Tamás Szabó Kimmel
Aryan Dashni from Homs, Syria, and his father are part of a group of refugees trying to cross the Hungarian border via boat. During the border crossing, Aryan and his father lose their papers and are separated when the group is discovered by a border guard unit and chaos ensues. Aryan is shot several times by police officer László, but instead of dying he mysteriously obtains the power to levitate. When he falls back down to earth he is apprehended and brought to the hospital ward of the closest refugee camp. Gábor Stern is a doctor who works at that hospital ward. He worked at a normal hospital before, but one night when drunk he made a mistake during surgery which killed an aspiring young athlete, he lost his job at the hospital and was sued by the victim's family. He is now trying to obtain enough money to bribe the family to drop their lawsuit. He does this by selling medical referrals to refugees which let them go from the camp to a hospital in Budapest from where they can flee. His girlfriend Vera, a doctor at the hospital, is in on the scheme. Gábor is seen selling one of the referrals to a refugee who had been in Aryan's group and who uses the name of Aryan's father, using the documents he had stolen from the Dashnis during the chaotic border crossing. It is also shown that Aryan's father is one of the many refugees who drowned during the border crossing. When Gábor comes to the ward and tries to examine Aryan, he begins to levitate again. Shocked and fascinated, .....
