"Stylishly shot and emotionally engaging"

THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
  • Archive - Festival 37
  • Director: Kornel Mundruczo
  • Hungary, Germany 2021
  • 97 minutes
  • Hungarian, German
  • Subtitles in Hebrew, English

In Evolution, acclaimed filmmaking team Kornél Mundruczó and Kata Wéber (Pieces of a Woman) return with a powerful drama tracing three generations of a Jewish family - told in three parts - unable to process their past in a society still coping with the wounds of its history.

In the first, a baby is discovered by three men cleaning a shower block. In the second, the child, Éva, is a resentful elderly woman living in Budapest, sparring with her daughter Léna over questions of identity. In the third, Léna’s son Jonas suffers from jibes over his ethnicity. Like the water that connects the episodes in this triptych, memory and identity are fluid,

Filmography: Pieces of a Woman (2020), Jupiter's Moon (2017), White God (2014), Johanna (2005).


  • Director Kornel Mundruczo
  • Production Viola Fügen, Michael Weber, Viktória Petranyi
  • Script Kata Weber
  • Cinematography Yorick le Saux
  • Editing Dávid Jancso
  • Music Dascha Dauenhauer
  • Festivals Cannes, Melbourne
  • Actors Lili Monori, Annamaria Lang, Goya Rego, Padmé Hamdemir
  • Source Lev Cinemas Ltd.