A post mortem photographer and a little girl confront ghosts in a haunted village after the First World War.
A photographer, an ex-soldier of the 1st World War, goes to a small village to capture the images of dead family members with the live relatives as it was frequent at the time. In a place that had many deaths because of the Spanish Flu and unable to bury their dead due to the frozen land, the village is in the hands of unfriendly ghosts. The man is going to try to help them.—Fantasporto 2021
In the cold winter of 1918, Tomás, a young man who works doing post-mortem photography, ends up in a small Hungarian village. The strange nocturnal sounds, the hostility, the mysterious deaths and the somber figures that appear in his photographs all urge him to leave as soon as possible. But Tomás returns to the village to investigate the ghosts' intentions and find a way to get rid of them.—Sitges Film Festival 2020
1918, Hungary. The Great War and the Spanish Flu have ravaged the continent. Soldier Tomás gets hit by an artillery bombardment. On his way to the hereafter, he experiences a strange vision of a girl calling his name and leading him back to life. Six months later, Tomás travels from town to town as a postmortem photographer, offering mourning families a last photograph of their loved ones. Suddenly he stands face to face with the girl of his vision, Anna. He follows her to her very SLEEPY HOLLOW-ish village, where the frozen ground makes it impossible to bury the countless flu victims. But there is more that roams these grounds than the freezing cold - Ghosts, the villagers whisper. Not easily swayed by superstitious nonsense, Tomás is going to use state-of-the-art photo and phonograph technology to bust some ghosts.—BIFFF - Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival 2021
Set in an epic reconstruction of the Spanish Flu pandemic, a superstitious farming community, magic and religion are set in stark relief against the scientific and technological advances in photography. In the chilly winter of 1918, Tomás is a post-mortem photographer, snapping corpses of the war dead for Hungarian records. Lured to a small village by talk of hauntings and strange nocturnal sounds, local hostility, mysterious deaths and the shadowy figures that appear in his photographs all urge him to leave as soon as possible. But he's determined to investigate in a sumptuous take on the classic ghost story.—FrightFest London 2021
