Original title :
Fehér Tenyér
English title :
White Palms
French title :
Les Paumes blanches
Country Production :
Hongrie
Director :
Szabolcs Hajdu
Production year :
2006
Duration :
101 min
VO :
Hongrois
SST :
Français
Aspect ratio :
1,85
Sound :
Dolby Digital SRD
Cast :
Zoltán Miklós Hajdu, Orion Radies, Silas Radies, Gheorghe Dinica, Kyle Shewfelt, Andor Lukáts, Oana Pellea
Writer :
Szabolcs Hajdu
Cinematographer :
András Nagy
Editing :
Péter Politzer
Sound :
Gábor Balázs
Music :
Ferenc Darvas avec Peace Orchestra, Galt MacDermot
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Synopsis :
Miklos Dongo is an Olympic gymnast whose career was ended by an injury. He comes to Canada to begin a new life as a coach. Miklos is assigned to train one of Canada’s most gifted young hopefuls. But the young man is vain and volatile and Miklos has difficulty establishing a rapport with him. Miklos comes to understand that if he is to establish a working relationship with the young man, he must overcome his own fears and confront his past, in which he suffered under the brutal training regimen of a diabolical coach.
Production :
Katapult Film & Filmpartners
21-23 Frankel Leo ut
H-1023 Budapest - Hongrie
Tél : +36 1 438 0894
Fax : +36 1 787 3558
office@katapultfilm.hu
Distribution :
Epicentre Films
55, rue de la Mare - 75020 Paris
Tél. : 01 43 49 03 03
Fax : 01 43 49 03 23
info@epicentrefilms.com
Szabolcs Hajdu

Director’s biography :
Szabolcs Hajdu was born in Debrecen, Hungary, in 1972. He studied at the Theatre and Film Art University in Budapest, then worked as an actor. Afer his first short, he made his first feature, Sticky Matter, in 2000, which won the Best First Film Director award at the Hungarian Film Week and the Special Jury Prize at the Molodist International Film Festival in Kiev in 2001. His second film, Tarama, in 2003, won the Special Jury Prize for Best Visual Design at the Hungarian Film Week in 2004.