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On Body and Soul wins five gongs at Hungarian Film Awards

Hungarian film “On Body and Soul” has won best motion picture, best script, best director, best lead actress and best supporting actress at the Hungarian Film Awards in Budapest

Hungarian film “On Body and Soul” has won best motion picture, best script, best director, best lead actress and best supporting actress at the Hungarian Film Awards in Budapest.

Ildikó Enyedi’s romantic drama set in a slaughterhouse also won the main prize at the Berlin Film Festival in 2017 and was shortlisted for best foreign language film at the 2018 Oscars.

The Hungarian Film Awards 2018 showcased 131 films in 5 categories. The audience prize went to “Kincsem”, a period film based on a famous Hungarian race horse, and the prize for best lead actor went to Péter Rudolf, for his role in “1945”, a drama set in Hungary during the Nazi era.