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Aiming to bag Hungary's third Academy Award in
three years at the weekend, "On Body And Soul" features Endre
and Maria who each night share the same dream, despite finding
it difficult to connect with each other during their lives.
As deer, they meet and fall in love in a beautiful, wintry
landscape.
The scenes where the elegant deer meet by a lake to drink and
court one another run parallel with Endre and Maria's shy,
awkward attempts to get closer to each other in the
slaughterhouse where they work.
Filming the real deer, named Picur (Tiny) and Goliat, proved a
challenge, said Zoltan Horkai, who runs an animal training
center in Godollo, near Budapest.
"Deer are not like domesticated animals, cooperating with man is
not coded in them," Horkai said. "In winter, bucks and does are
not even together normally and we had to convince them to move
in tandem."
The movie scooped the Golden Bear at the 67th Berlin
International Film Festival last year.
"When Ildiko came to me with the script, she told me these two
people act really awkwardly in life, and she would like to show
how it works with the animal scenes," Horkai said. "And it
worked... although their relationship was built more on trust
than love."
Horkai, who specializes in studying and training wolves, used
two wolves on leashes to herd the deer from a distance.
Hungarian movies "Son of Saul" won the 2016 Oscar for best
foreign language film and "Sing" best live action short in 2017.
(Reporting by Krisztina Than and Krisztina Fenyo; Editing by
Janet Lawrence)
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