was all about after all.
Because what is made ready from this shooting of half an hour or so is something that makes all of us burst with pride!
Press release by director Bla Tarr and producer Gbor Tni, February 6, 2006.
Expressions of sympathy and solidarity from the European film community manifested in renewed assurances of continued support from the production’s German partners, ARTE, and the French National Film Centre (whose support was conditional on the film having 51% of its dialogue in French). New French financing was secured from production company Mezzanine Film, and in Hungary, the Hungarian Motion Picture Foundation (MMKA) and the Minister of Culture pledged to back the production if a guarantee could be made that the film would be finished safely. A compromise filming schedule was negotiated whereby a quarter of the shoot would take place