‘Rose’ Producer Rolls With Psychological Family Drama ‘The Shame of the Borbély Family,’ Directed by Kálmán Nagy (EXCLUSIVE)

Hungarian filmmaker Kálmán Nagy’s psychological family drama “The Shame of the Borbély Family” has begun production in Austria and Hungary.

The film is produced by Andi G. Hess together with Johannes Schubert under the Austrian-German production outfit Schubert, whose latest feature “Rose” is Austria’s Oscar submission and earned Sandra Hüller a Silver Bear at this year’s Berlinale.

“The Shame of the Borbély Family,” which stars Zsolt Nagy, Emőke Pál and Ágoston Sáfrány, centers on a family confronted with a fatal act of violence involving their teenage son. As they face public judgment and personal trauma, guilt and shame begin to pull the family apart – until an even deeper moral dilemma comes to light.

The four-country European co-production brings together Lupa Pictures in Hungary, led by Petra Iványi, Sweden’s two-time Palme d’Or-winning producer Erik Hemmendorff (“Triangle of Sadness,” “The Square”) of Plattform Produktion in Sweden, Marta Bródka’s Lumiere de Cinema in Poland and executive producer Kristina Börjeson of Film i Väst.

The Hungarian-language feature marks Nagy’s directorial debut. Nagy, who is based in Austria, is a graduate of Michael Haneke’s directing class at the Film Academy Vienna. The project was selected for the Les Arcs Talent Village and was later presented at the CineLink Co-Production Market.

The international co-production is supported by Eurimages, the Austrian Film Institute, the Vienna Film Fund, the Lower Austrian Film Fund, the Hungarian Film Incentive and the Polish Film Institute. It is produced in collaboration with Austrian public broadcaster ORF. Filmladen Filmverleih will handle theatrical distribution in Austria.