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director: Gyula Nemes

writer: Tamás Beregi, Gyula Nemes

DOP: Balázs Dobóczi

music: Albert Márkos, Kopir Rozsywal Bestar, Antonio Vivaldi,

Dicko Boubacar, Dicko Issiaka

sound: Tamás Zányi

editor: Péter Politzer

co-producers: Iván Angelusz (Hungary), Jiří Konečný

(Czech Republic), Eike Goreczka (Germany)

producer: Gyula Nemes

Hungarian – Czech – German feature film

83 min., 35mm, col./bw, 1:2,35 Cinemascope, Dolby Digital

language: Hungarian, Fulani

prints: 35mm (English subs), DCP (Czech, English, German subs)

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Playtime

Playtime is an independent film production company founded in 2008.

The CEO and producer is Gyula Nemes.

Filmography:
Zero,  Feature, directed by Gyula Nemes   
The Gentleman Takes His Leave, Short, directed by Laszlo Nemes   
Eroica, Short, directed by Peter Politzer   
Negative History of Hungarian Cinema, Documentary, directed by Gyula Nemes   
Space is a Game, Documentary, directed by Petra Pelsőczy   

Krisztián Kovács

His full name is Krisztián Sándor Kovács. Born in 1978 in Hungary. He is living in Budapest. Graduated at Actor Department of Theatre and Film Academy in Budapest, 2005. Member of Audience Art Company. He is playing both in stone theaters and independent companies. His first film role was in North, North (1999) by Csaba Bollók. His first leading role was in My One and Onlies (2006) by Gyula Nemes.

Martina Krátká

Born in 1984 in Vyškov, Moravia, Czech Republic. She started her career in the child studio of theatre Goose on a string. She studied clownery, film actorship and theatricals at JAMU, Prague. She writes her PhD thesis on her leading professor, Ctibor Turba. From 2011 she is a member of theatre Švanda in Prague. She directed there a play Cry Baby Cry. She is teaching at JAMU and theatre Švanda, where she founded an actor training school. Her first role in a film was in Shameless by Jan Hřebejk. Zero is her first leading role.

Udo Kier

Udo Kier was born 1944 in Cologne, Germany, during World War II in a hospital attacked by bombs. His first hit film was Mark of the Devil (1970). The film was rated V for violence and ticket buyers were offered vomit bags before the film started. Kier met director Paul Morissey on his first an airplane trip to US, where Morrissey offered him the lead role in the 3-D Flesh for Frankenstein (1973), which made Udo a cult figure. In the 1970s he lived together with Fassbinder and he played in his several films (The Third Generation, Lili Marleen). His fame in Hungary made the main role in Psyché by Gábor Bódy. In the 1990s he had a lot more visibility in America and his breakthrough role was as Hans in My Own Private in Idaho (1991), where the soundtrack includes the song that Udo performs in the film. His other hits are Ace Ventura (1994), Blade (1998), Armageddon (1998) and Iron Sky (2013). He continues to work often with Lars von Trier (Epidemic, 1987, Breaking The Waves, 1996, Nyphomaniac, 2014) and is the godfather his child. Currently Udo lives in California. He got Special Teddy Award for his life achievement at Berlinale 2015.

Actors

Tóth Orsi, Declan OCalaghan, Declan Hannigan, Fokasz Nikosz, Nemes Jeles László, Oláh Lehel, Szirtes András, Fodor János, Lénárt István, Vincze Mátyás, Szunyogh Szabolcs, Pörös Géza, Füle Zoltán, Lavro Ferenc, Angelus Iván, Szilágyi Kornél, Hevesi Nándor, Butala István, Bula Béláné, Hirsch Tibor, Sándor Tibor, Pablo Lerner, Ralph Berkin, Wilhelm Droste, Maiga Mohamed, Dicko Jibrilla