Sunset

Sep 27, 2018

2h 17m

★ 5.8

Overview

In 1913, an orphaned young woman arrives in Budapest to take up employment as a milliner at the hat store that belonged to her late parents but becomes mired in a search for a brother she had never known of.

Genres

Drama

History

Production Companies

Playtime

Hungarian National Film Fund

Laokoon Filmgroup

Sunset Trailers

Cast

Írisz Leiter

Juli Jakab

Oszkár Brill

Vlad Ivanov

Zelma

Evelin Dobos

The Princess

Susanne Wuest

Szeréna

Judit Pecháček

Gaspar

Levente Molnár

Otto von König

Christian Harting

Countess Rédey

Julia Jakubowska

Ismael

Urs Rechn

Man in White

Björn Freiberg

Doctor Herz

Sándor Zsótér

The Caretaker

Mihály Kormos

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