roles

Roles. Naturally, everybody wanted to be older than their real age, being at least 20-22 years old. Practically 2-3 girls invented most of the characters, relationships and story lines. What participants invented predestined the basis of the film. As everyone got their role on the first day, even though Dani missed out our sessions for a while (he travelled to Hungary with his band) but finally, at the end of the shootings he jumped back to the role he had chosen at the beginning, and gave an interview as one of the protagonists, the poor boy’s father.
Katalin Soós decided that everybody used their real names in the story, which seamed to be a good decision: it helped her to instruct the kids as there was only one name attached to each one of them. The other thing was enforcing the link between fiction and reality, which was important for the enquiry.If children don’t hide behind other names to their characters, the result won’t be that abstract, so the kids reflect more on reality in the film.