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“Cross Mountain” Wins Special Prize in Warsaw

Szöveg: Krisztián Bárány |  2014. szeptember 15. 12:37

“Kereszthegy” (Cross Mountain), a film based on a World War II story has been awarded a special prize at the 5th International Historical and Military Films Festival held in the capital of Poland. According to Organizational Director of the Festival Karol Nowakowski, the Hungarian documentary exhibits an enviably high level of artistic skills.

Feature films and full-evening documentaries were declared for the event from many countries of the world, including Iran, Canada, Brazil, Switzerland and the Baltic states among others. Organizational Director of the Festival Karol Nowakowski emphasized that six years earlier, the idea of the international competition had emerged exactly with the aim of involving the filmmakers of the region. In his opinion, a great virtue of this festival is that the films obtaining positive qualification are about such unfamiliar topics and unexplored areas which have so far been unknown to the Polish audience. Mr. Nowakowski added that although this is a competition of military films, they may be of interest to the average people too, as they deal with serious historical topics, about which no dialogues have been held before.

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Of the historical documentaries, the festival director highlighted the Latvian, Lithuanian and Hungarian works. He added that the story of the World War II battles in Transylvania has so far been unknown in Poland. In Mr. Nowakowski’s opinion, “Cross Mountain" has the virtue of authenticity, and besides the featured veterans, the artistic work is enviable.

In addition to several Polish works, the jury awarded special prizes to the Brazilian and Iranian works. The film “Cross Mountain" also received an award: the documentary relating the story of the 65th Székely border rifle grouping was given a special prize. On Saturday, September 13, Lt.-Col. Tamás Melke, the Hungarian defence, military and air attaché to Warsaw also watched the film with his family.

Co-produced by Zrínyi Military Film Studio and the MoD Public Relations and War Memorial Service Department, the documentary has two young historians as screenwriters and co-directors, Krisztián Bárány and József Nagy. The supervising director of the film is Rezső Wonke, the head of the film studio.

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