Katalin Varga

With echoes of Bergman’s The Virgin Spring and the infamous I Spit On Your Grave, Katalin Varga is a tense unsettling drama based on a woman’s quest for revenge on the men who raped her.

Happily married with a young son, Orban, Katalin Varga’s life is torn apart when her husband throws her out after discovering Orban is, in fact, the result of Katalin’s rape years before. Homeless and desperate, Katalin embarks on a journey with Orban, ostensibly to see his grandmother, in reality to track down and punish the men responsible for raping her.

Sleeping in barns and travelling in a horse-drawn cart, the pair reach their destination, the home village of one of the rapists. Katalin soon encounters her brutish attacker and executes a swift and bloody revenge.

Pursued by avenging forces, Katalin travels on to meet Antal, with whom she also has unfinished business. Now married to the doting, sympathetic Etelka, Antal is a reformed man, a kind gentle soul. When the truth of Katalin’s past emerges the scene is set for tragedy…