Before Dawn (2005)

Director:

Bálint Kenyeres

Writers:

Bálint Kenyeres
György Réder

Genre:

Action | Drama | Short

Plot:

Before dawn, people will rise and other people will take away their hope.

Plot Keywords:

Truck | Field | Horn | Immigrant | Task Force

Awards:

4 wins & 1 nomination

Cast

Sándor Badár
János Kalmár
Lajos Kovács

Directed by
Bálint Kenyeres

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Bálint Kenyeres
György Réder

Produced by
Iván Angelusz	....	associate producer
György Durst	....	co-producer
Bálint Kenyeres	....	producer
András Muhi	....	producer

Cinematography by
Mátyás Erdély

Film Editing by
Péter Politzer

Art Direction by
Márton Ágh

Costume Design by
Andrea Flesch
Edit Szücs

Production Management
László Lakatos	....	unit manager
Andrea Taschler	....	production manager

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Eva Badacsonyi	....	third assistant director
Attila Gigor	....	third assistant director (as Attila Galambos)
Máté Illés	....	second second assistant director
Áron Mátyássy	....	second assistant director
Laszlo Nemes	....	first assistant director

Art Department
Peter Gantner	....	property master (as Gantner Péter)
Balázs Krasznahorkai	....	artistic advisor
Tamás Simon	....	property master

Sound Department
Tamás Zányi	....	sound

Special Effects by
Zsuzsanna Rebeka Pál	....	main titles (as Pál Rebeka)
Bálint Zsolt Szemenyei	....	main titles (as Szemenyei Bálint)

Visual Effects by
Máté Birkás	....	visual effects supervisor

Stunts
Péter Felcsuti	....	stunts
Attila Fásy	....	stunts
Béla Gerner	....	stunts
Zoltán Gulyás Kiss	....	stunt coordinator (as Gulyás-Kis Zoltán)
Gergely Korpácsi	....	stunts
Norbert Kovács	....	stunts
László Kósa	....	stunts
Zoltan Papp	....	stunts
Ákos Sinkó	....	stunts
Gyorgy Szanto	....	stunts

Camera and Electrical Department
Attila Bakos	....	grip
Miklós Herczeg	....	key grip
Árpád Horváth	....	focus puller
Zsuzsanna Rebeka Pál	....	still photographer (as Pál Zsuzsanna)
Bálint Seress	....	assistant camera
Árpád Szirmai	....	gaffer
Ferenc Utasi	....	grip

Casting Department
László Kiss	....	extras casting supervisor
Panni Molnár	....	extras casting supervisor

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Ildikó Bíró	....	wardrobe

Editorial Department
György Balatoni	....	digital color timer
Gyöngyi Féjja	....	negative cutter
Viola Regéczy	....	color timer

Transportation Department
Miklós Adorján	....	bus driver
Péter Lukács	....	driver: camera ttuck

Other crew
Fatime Dévényi	....	caterer
Gergõ Gazsy	....	inferno (as Gazsy Gergely)
Anita Gerencsér	....	assistant producer
Péter Huszák	....	wrangler
Lajos Imreh	....	helicopter pilot
Iván Steiner	....	location security
Iván Steiner	....	military coordinator
Richard Szabó	....	logistic coordinator
István Varga	....	military advisor (as Dr. Varga István)

Production Companies

• Inforg Stúdió

Also Known As:

Runtime:

France:13 min

Country:

Hungary

Language:

Hungarian

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Certification:

Hungary:14

Filming Locations:

Tinnye, Hungary

Company:

Inforg Stúdió

Movie Connections:

Edited into Cinema16: European Short Films (2006) (V)

simple, powerful, nicely shot

I was looking for a plan sequence for inspiration in trying to make one myself and accidentally stumbled onto this one. (thanks to the nice sundance film festival website) It's a fine example of usage of a sequence shot. It moves from situational shot to the conclusion and there never really is a need to cut. The story is very powerful in it's summable simplicity and lends itself beautifully to this kind of camera-work. I would recommend it to everyone who likes this kind of inventive movie-making. As a student i think this is also an ideal movie to show to students why you should sometimes choose for a sequential shot instead of cutting your story to death.