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Director Árpád Sopsits finds a queasy political dimension to the Martfü murders in 1957, for which the wrong man was jailed

Here is a bleak, brutal, dispiriting serial killer drama, based on a real-life case from postwar Hungary: the Martfü murders, in which the film finds a queasy political dimension. In 1957, in the provincial town of Martfü in eastern Hungary, a young woman is found brutally killed. Her boyfriend confesses to the crime, but after he has been in prison for some years, more women are murdered and it appears the real culprit is still at large, and the convicted man may have had his confession beaten out of him, or confessed due to a complex, deep-seated guilt about something other than the crime itself.

Gábor Jászberényi is Réti, the innocent man; Zsolt Anger is Bóta, the anguished cop who got it wrong and Péter Bárnai is Szirmai, the fierce new...

Strangled is a psychological thriller from Hungary and director Árpád Sopsits. The film has been on a film festival run, throughout the year. Its next stop is United Kingdom and Irish theatres. This release is slated for mid-November. In Strangled, a serial killer is on the loose. Set in 1960s Hungary, the socialist government is unable to track the killer down and one man is falsely accused. Can anyone stop this killer? This title has already won several awards. And, a preview of the film's upcoming theatrical launch is hosted here. Several stills have been released for Strangled, by Eureka. As well, the official European quad poster is hosted here. All of the graphics show the tension caused by this violent, real life scenario. Based on the Monster of Martfü, there is no end to the victims, in this horrifying title. As well, a trailer was released for Strangled recently.

British distributor Eureka! Entertainment has announced the launch of Montage Pictures, a new world cinema sub-label focusing on contemporary works by new and upcoming filmmakers from around the world. Five titles have been announced so far - Kills on Wheels (2016, Attila Till, Hungary), Strangled (2016, Árpád Sopsits, Hungary), Shirley: Visions of Reality (2013, Gustav Deutsch, Austria), Rescue Under Fire [Zona Hostil] (2017, Adolfo Martínez Pérez, Spain) and Suntan (2016, Argyris Papadimitropoulos, Greece), which recently enjoyed a theatrical run in the UK and will be the label’s debut release, in a dual format (Blu-ray & DVD) edition on 4 September 2017. Eureka! is already the home of the much-revered Masters of Cinema series, which has showcased a number of contemporary world...

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