Punta Grande - a sophisticated comedy. Fred and Lilian and their young daughter Luzi are enjoying a lovely holiday trip in Argentina. During their stay at "Punta Grande», the tiniest hotel in the world, each one of them experiences their individual catharsis. Fred becomes involved in a romantic love affair with mysterious singer Ines, Lilian gets trapped in the dark passions aroused by Ricardo, the bartender.
Even Luzi meets her alter ego, and the elderly German immigrants - twinned and incestuous brother and sister - who run the hotel seem to guide them all by strange magic. All are living and suffering their secret dreams and fears and still find their way back home as new-born and healed identities.
Gabor Altorjay was born in Hungary in 1946 and studied Theology from 1966-1967. He was granted political asylum in Germany in 1967 and then wrote many radio plays for WDR and HR. His feature film debut Tscherwonez was made in 1981 and was succeeded two years later by Pankow 95. These were followed by the shorts Ben's Bridge (1989, also script and production) and Polsprung (1990), which was part of the international film project City Life. Ben's Bridge
won the Directors Choice Award at the 13th Black Maria Film Festival in 1993 while his latest project, Punte Grande, was given the jury's special prize at the Hungary Film Days in 1996.  TRAILER Agentenbericht aus Jodie Fosters Message Board:
“10:02:36 AM GESPRÄCH MIT LENI RIEFENSTAHL (1968) Hi, some days ago I read that you intend to make a movie about "leni riefenstahl"; i have seen a 4h documentary on arte tv (german-french tv) and i'm sure that this might be a great project especially for you. today there was an other message that german movie companies
(Studio 1 Filmproduktion und Rainer Kommerz Film & TV Produkte) intends to do the same: the project is named "Penthesileias Persilschein" and the script is done by Gabor Altorjay and Wolfgang Büld. I would like to know whether you participate this project. yours very sincerely and happy greetings from munich, nicebrain@mindless.com” 
| Director:
Gabor Altorjay
Screenplay:
Gabor Altorjay
Director of photography:
Holly Fink
Editor:
Jan Kinast
Music by:
Tom Dokoupil
Producer:
Gabor Altorjay
Production Companies:
Rainer Commerz Kinofilmproduktion, Hamburg/ Studio 1 Filmproduktion W. Grassmann, Hamburg/Mozgokep Innovacios Tarsulas, Budapest
Principal Cast:
Niels Peter Rudolph, Martina Schiesser, Hildegard Schmahl, Josef Bilous, Gisela Müller
Length:
88 min., 2.420 m
Format:
35 mm, colour
Original Version:
German
Subtitled Version:
English
Sound Technology:
Optical sound
International Festival Screenings:
27. Magyar Filmszemle Budapest: special award of the jury
Funding by:
Hamburger Filmbüro
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