Directed by:
Márk BodzsárScreenplay:
Márk BodzsárCinematography:
Dániel ReichComposer:
Gábor KeresztesCast:
András Ötvös, Roland Rába, Tamás Keresztes, Natasa Stork, Hanna Pálos, Zsolt Nagy, Adél Jordán, Kati Lázár, Csaba Czene, Ákos Orosz, Zsolt Trill, Géza D. Hegedűs (more)Plots(1)
Heavenly Shift uses dark humour to tell the story of a young paramedic who gets introduced to the night life and to the cruel, but eternal truth: death does not choose, man does. Milán, half Serbian, half Hungarian, deserts from Croatian army in 1992, the second year of the Yugoslav war, and flees to Hungary. He gets a job with the Hungarian paramedics, where he lives through the euphoric moments of lifesaving, but also recognises innumerable faces of death. It is a cold shower for the young enthusiastic and conscientious EMS assistant when he realises that his companions make a selection from the patients. While they are saving lives, sometimes they allow old or fatally injured to die. Milán soon discovers that there is a business side to the illegal euthanasia that takes place in the back of their ambulance. (CinEast)
(more)Cast
András Ötvös
Hungary
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Heavenly Shift (2013)
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Roland Rába
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Tamás Keresztes
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Natasa Stork
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Hanna Pálos
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Zsolt Nagy
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Adél Jordán
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Gergely Kaszás
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Vica Kerekes
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Gábor Nagypál
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