The District!

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Nyócker!

Directed by	Áron Gauder
Produced by	Erik Novák
Music by	Erik Novák
Release date(s)	9 December 2004
Running time	87 min
Country	Hungary
Language	Magyar
Budget	525,000 USD
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Nyócker! or The District! is a 2004 Hungarian caricaturistic animated film directed by Áron Gauder. Its original title is a shortened colloquial form of nyolcadik kerület, the eighth district of Budapest, also known as Józsefváros, including an infamous neighbourhood where the movie takes place. It is sometimes labelled as the Hungarian South Park.

It has been distributed in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, United Kingdom, France, the Benelux countries, Romania, Poland, Portugal and Taiwan, and it is going to be shown in the United States.

It was also shown at film festivals in Helsinki, Toronto, Copenhagen, Zagreb, Karlovy Vary and the below venues and it will be shown in Warsaw, Vancouver and São Paulo.

The animated technique for this movie was rather innovative. The artists took 350 headshot pictures of each actor and used these photos for the expressing emotions and the animation of the heads. The bodies were hand drawn.^[1]

1 Plot
2 Cast and crew
- 2.1 Cast
3 Awards
4 Festivals
5 External links
6 References

[edit] Plot

The film displays the Hungarian, Roma, Chinese and Arab dwellers and their alliances and conflicts in a humorous way, embedded into a fictive story of a few schoolchildren's oil-making time-travel and a Romeo and Juliet-type love of a Roma guy towards a white girl.

[edit] Cast and crew

Directed by: Áron Gauder

Screenplay: Máriusz Bari; Viktor Nagy; Erik Novák; László Jakab Orsós

Produced by: Erik Novák

Original Music by: Erik Novák

[edit] Cast

(voices)

actor	character	actor	character
L.L. Junior	Ricsi Lakatos	László Szacsvay	Guszti Lakatos
Gyözö Szabó	Károly Csorba	Csaba Pindroch	Béluska, Vizy's son
Gábor Csöre	Simon Csorba/Chen	Dorka Gryllus	Mari
Zoltán Rajkai	Abdul	Andrea Fullajtár	Irina
Andrea Roatis	Julika Csorba	Károly Gesztesi	Lóri Lakatos
István Betz	Sandokan Kolompár	Judit Jónás	Rózsi
Sándor Badár	Badár, policista	János Horváth	Vizy, policista
Anna Orosz	Ági néni, Teacherka	Balázs Simonyi	Móricka
Barnabás Szabó Sipos	Dr. Zsírvágó	Nóra Parti	Anett
Éva Dögei	Isaura	Csaba Krisztián Csík	Omar

[edit] Awards

Date	Award	Festival	Location	Link	obs
2004-12	Best Visual Expression	Magyar Filmszemle	Hungary	[1]
2005-06-11	Cristal for best feature	Annecy International Animated Film Festival	Annecy, France	[2]	^
2005-08-19	Grand Prize	Seoul International Cartoon and Animation Festival	Seoul, South Korea	[3]
2005-09-25	Mercury Filmworks Grand Prize For Animated Feature	Ottawa International Animation Festival	Ottawa, Canada	[4]	^
2005-09-28	Best Animated Feature	KROK International Animated Films Festival	Russia	[5]	^
2005-10-13	Best Animated Film	Festival de Cine de Sitges	Sitges, Spain	[6]
2005	Cross of Merit of the Republic of Hungary		Hungary		^
2005	Best Hungarian Feature; Kecskemét City Award	KAFF (Kecskemét Animation Film Festival)	Kecskemét, Hungary
2005	Golden Zagreb award	Animafest Zagreb	Zagreb, Croatia
2006	Best Feature	Anima	Spain
2006	Best Feature	CUFF 2006 (Calgary Underground Film Festival)	Zagreb, Canada	[7]
2006	Best feature; Audience Award	Anima (film festival)	Belgium
2007	Lisbon City Prize	Monstra Festival	Lisbon, Portugal

Notes:

Note a: The panel was shocked at the technological modernity of the film and at learning that it was only made from 105 million HUF (525,000 USD).
Note b: "For its visual innovation, energetic style, and fearless satire of contemporary culture and politics"
Note c: On the board Princess of Dneper — out of 130 films from 36 countries of the world.
Note d: Awarded to Director Aron Gauder