Attila Till’s action-comedy nominated in Efa Selection 2016.
Hungary has selected Attila Till’s Kills On Wheels as its Best Foreign Language Film submission for this year’s Academy Awards.
The feature is based on two disabled teenagers who team up with a wheelchair-bound hitman.
Szabolcs Thuróczy (Golden Life, The Wednesday Child) leads an ensemble cast that also includes Zoltán Fenyvesi and Ádám Fekete.
The film recently made the European Film Academy’s longlist for the 2016 European Film Awards.
Released in Hungarian theatres on April 28 by A Company Hungary, its international premiere was held at Karlovy Vary in July.
Till’s first feature film Panic (Pánik) premiered in 2008 at the Hungarian Film Week, where it won Best Actress.
Kills On Wheels was written by Till and produced by Judi Stalter.
The director commented: “I have met several people in wheelchairs while I was volunteering with the disabled. These personal encounters inspired me to present a story about a...
Hungary has selected Attila Till’s Kills On Wheels as its Best Foreign Language Film submission for this year’s Academy Awards.
The feature is based on two disabled teenagers who team up with a wheelchair-bound hitman.
Szabolcs Thuróczy (Golden Life, The Wednesday Child) leads an ensemble cast that also includes Zoltán Fenyvesi and Ádám Fekete.
The film recently made the European Film Academy’s longlist for the 2016 European Film Awards.
Released in Hungarian theatres on April 28 by A Company Hungary, its international premiere was held at Karlovy Vary in July.
Till’s first feature film Panic (Pánik) premiered in 2008 at the Hungarian Film Week, where it won Best Actress.
Kills On Wheels was written by Till and produced by Judi Stalter.
The director commented: “I have met several people in wheelchairs while I was volunteering with the disabled. These personal encounters inspired me to present a story about a...
- 9/1/2016
- ScreenDaily
The Hungarian comedy-thriller “Kills On Wheels” follows 20-year-old wheelchair user Zoli (Fenyvesi Zoltán) and his physically disabled friend Barba Papa (Fekete Ádám) as they team up with wheelchair-bound hit man Rupaszov (Thuróczy Szabolcs) to offer their assassin services to the mafia. Soon, they enter a surreal world of gangsters and guns, all the while coming to terms with their respective disabilities and how best to cope with them. Watch the trailer for the film above.
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“Kills On Wheels” is directed by Attila Till, who was inspired to make the film after volunteering with the disabled, saying that it was crucial for him “to make a movie about disabled people where they finally aren’t played by actors but get the opportunity to act themselves and be the real heroes.” He previously directed the feature film “Panic,...
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“Kills On Wheels” is directed by Attila Till, who was inspired to make the film after volunteering with the disabled, saying that it was crucial for him “to make a movie about disabled people where they finally aren’t played by actors but get the opportunity to act themselves and be the real heroes.” He previously directed the feature film “Panic,...
- 6/16/2016
- by Vikram Murthi
- Indiewire
Exclusive: France deal for Hungarian comedy-thriller Kills On Wheels about a disabled gang.
Paris-based distributor Pretty Pictures has acquired French rights to Hungarian comedy thriller Kills On Wheels ahead of its world premiere at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in July.
The high-octane comedy-thriller revolves around two physically disabled young men who team up with a wheelchair-using hit man to offer their services to the Mafia as assassins. They enter a surreal world of gangsters and gunfights all the while coping with their disabilities.
The deal was negotiated between Pretty Pictures founding chief James Velaise and Klaudia Androsovitz of...
Paris-based distributor Pretty Pictures has acquired French rights to Hungarian comedy thriller Kills On Wheels ahead of its world premiere at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in July.
The high-octane comedy-thriller revolves around two physically disabled young men who team up with a wheelchair-using hit man to offer their services to the Mafia as assassins. They enter a surreal world of gangsters and gunfights all the while coping with their disabilities.
The deal was negotiated between Pretty Pictures founding chief James Velaise and Klaudia Androsovitz of...
- 6/14/2016
- ScreenDaily
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