Genius monsters or terrible geniuses 2 – or a note about Antal Nimród’s The Whiskey Bandit Cover Image

Zseniális szörnyek vagy szörnyű zsenik 2. – Antal Nimród A Viszkis fi lmjének margójára
Genius monsters or terrible geniuses 2 – or a note about Antal Nimród’s The Whiskey Bandit

Author(s): János Tárkányi
Subject(s): Media studies, Film / Cinema / Cinematography
Published by: Medea Egyesület
Keywords: the whiskey bandit; Ambrus Attila; Antal Nimród; hungarian bank robber movie;

Summary/Abstract: In the city of Budapest of the 90’s appeared a controversial fi gure, who emigrated from Szeklerland with a double life:hockey player at a local club and bank robber with almost thirty active attacks. After serving twelve years of detention, he wasreleased when the American director of Hungarian origin Antal Nimród made a biographical feature fi lm about him. The fi lmhas divided civil society as well as the guild of fi lmmakers.

  • Issue Year: XV/2020
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 43-52
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Hungarian