Passion (1998 film)

Passion (Hungarian: Szenvedély) is a 1998 Hungarian drama film directed by György Fehér and co-written with Béla Tarr, based on James M. Cain's 1934 novel The Postman Always Rings Twice.^[1]

Passion
Directed by	György Fehér
Written by	György Fehér Béla Tarr
Based on	The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain
Produced by	István Dárday György Fehér Gergely Horváth Ferenc Kardos Éva Schulze Jolán Árvai
Starring	Ildikó Bánsági
Cinematography	Miklós Gurbán Tibor Máthé
Edited by	Mária Czeilik Éva Szentandrási
Production companies	Budapest Filmstúdió Magyar Televizió Rt. Drámai Szerkesztõség Magyar Televízió Fiatal Müvészek Stúdiója
Distributed by	Budapest Film
Release date	22 October 1998 (1998-10-22)
Running time	155 minutes
Country	Hungary
Language	Hungarian

The film screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival,^[1] and was awarded six prizes at the 1998 Hungarian Film Week, including best film, best direction, best cinematography, best actress (Ildikó Bánsági), best actor(s) (Djoko Rosic and János Derzsi), and the Foreign Film Critics' Gene Moskowitz prize.^[2]

Cast

• Ildikó Bánsági as The wife
• Djoko Rosic as The husband
• János Derzsi as The man
• István Lénárt as The attorney
• László Gálffi as The priest
• Zoltán Bezerédi as The doctor's scribe (as Bezerédi Zoltán)
• Géza Bereményi as The doctor
• Dénes Ujlaky
• Péter Haumann as The lawyer
• Gergõ Borhi
• Imre Csuja
• Gábor Székely
• Tibor Viczkó