Hungarian movie wins best film in Toronto

Semmelweis, a feature directed by Lajos Koltai, has won the main prize, based on the audience’s rating, at the 19th Toronto European Film Festival, the National Film Institute (NFI) said on Saturday.

The eponymous film about the celebrated Hungarian doctor known as the “saviour of mothers”, who understood the importance of avoiding postpartum bacterial infection, is on general release in Hungary and has also received its world premiere in New York and Los Angeles, Impress Magazin says.

Semmelweis was produced by Szupermodern Filmstudio with the support of the National Film Institute. Produced by Tamás Lajos and Joe Vida, the cinematographer was András Nagy, with a screenplay written by Balázs Maruszki.

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