PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Dénes Nagy, director of the film Natural Light.
Dénes Nagy put in Natural Light, presented in the Tflab section of the Torino Film Festival, the stories his grandpa told that he imagined , as a kid, as adventurous and magic. the reality of war was not at all magic, and he shows us in the film how cruel and illogical war is in the eyes of a man who did not know why he was there and to do what.
Natural Light : 1943. World War II, in the occupied territories of the Soviet Union. István Semetka is a Hungarian peasant who serves as a corporal in a special reconnaissance unit for partisan groups. On the way to a remote village, his company falls under enemy fire. When the commander is killed, István must overcome his fears and take command of the unit as he is drawn into a chaos over which he has no control.