Forbidden Relations

[J.A.F._Doorhof]

From: Facets Multimedia

For Immediate Release
August 18, 2002

Facets Video Presents

"Not your conventional love story!" - Chicago Tribune

Forbidden Relations - They were friends, they were lovers? They were brother and sister!

"Three Stars!" - Chicago Tribune

"4-Star Masterpiece!" - Film Comment

Official Selection Cannes Film Festival New York Film Festival

New On DVD and VHS

Facets Video will release Forbidden Relations on DVD and VHS on October 8, 2002. DVDs and VHS tapes will retail at $29.95 Each.

In this astonishing film based on a true story, a brother and a sister fall in love and become lovers.

But for Forbidden Relations - a shocking, original, and beautiful film - incest is just a beginning. Juli becomes pregnant and Gyorgy is sentenced to jail for their illegal relationship. But their love only intensifies as they stand together against the world.

Forbidden Relations is a film of searing sensuality, lusciously shot by the great cinematographer Janos Kende. An international sensation, Forbidden Relations captured the heart and imaginations of audiences everywhere, examining the timeless issue of love in the face of social constraint.

The film is presented in a gorgeous transfer from a brilliant new 35mm print. DVD features include chapterization, a video interview with writer/director Zsolt Kezdi-Kovacs, and a production still gallery.

DVD $29.95 Product# DV67710 UPC# 736899 041021 ISBN# 156580 3264
VHS $29.95 Product# 45009 UPC# 736899 858032 ISBN# 156580 3272

The release of Forbidden Relations continues Facets' commitment to Hungarian cinema. Other Hungarian films on the Facets Video Label include, among others, The Nice Neighbor (also directed by Zsolt Kezdi-Kovacs), Almanac Of Fall (directed by Bela Tarr), and Daniel Takes A Train (directed by Pal Sandor). Several others are forthcoming.

Forbidden Relations. Original title: Visszaesok.
Written and directed by Zsolt Kezdi-Kovacs.
Director of Photography: Janos Kende.
With Lili Monori, Miklos B. Szekely, and Mari Torocsik. 1982
Hungary
color
90 mins. © Hungarofilm, 1982.
Hungarian with English subtitles.

Preorder Date: September 17, 2002 Street Date: October 8, 2002

Facets Multimedia is based in Chicago, Illinois. In addition to housing a cinematheque, a children's film festival, and an exclusive video distributor, Facets is the world's unique, largest collection of foreign, classic American, independent, experimental, documentary, cult, fine arts, and quality children's videos and DVDs. Through extensive national marketing to consumer, institutional, and retail markets, Facets is a primary source of films on video and DVD. The Facets collection represents over 50,000 individual titles.

Coming soon on or in association with the Facets Video Label:

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Other forthcoming titles include Amos Gitai: Exile; James Fotopoulos x 3; The Decalogue special edition; Electra, My Love (d. Miklos Jancso, Hungary) and Medea (d. Lars von Trier, Denmark); and many more films from Russia, Hungary, Iran, Israel, Canada, the Czech Republic, the Republic of Georgia, Italy, the United States, Spain, and beyond....