HOURGLASS
- Original title: Peščanik
- Type: feature film
- Year: 2007
- Genre: Drama
- Country: Serbia, Hungary
- Language: Serbian
- Length: 107 min
- Directed by: Szabolcs Tolnai
The Hourglass is a story about Hungarian-Jewish-Serbian family that is being portrayed through search of already grown up son. In his search he tries to restore his childhood from dreams and memories. An already sunken world, the world of mid European town with its figures, looms up from visions of a delicate boy and his father, who, running from fears that destroy bones, and ultimate humiliation, ends up in fake lunacy and becomes lonely clown in a drama of life. The Hourglass is the anatomy of senseless hatred and fear. However, warmth and irony that immerge from story, do not allow the story to become one more story about pain and suffering. The Hourglass is based on the novels by Danilo Kiš.
- Screenplay: Szabolcs Tolnai (based on the novels by Danilo Kiš)
- Director of photography: Gergely Pohárnok
- Production design: Dijana Radosavljević Milović
- Music by: Szabolcs Söke
- Edited by: Szilvia Ruszev
- Costume designer: Sosa Juristovszky
- Mask: Martina Šubic
- Cast: Slobodan Ćustić, Nebojša Dugalić , Jasna Žalica,, David Vojnić Hajduk, Alisa Terek, Lars Rudolph , Djurdjija Cvetić, Adam Rajhona, Kati Lazar, Derzsi Janos Mori Nog , Tatjana Bermel, Rade Kojadinović, Dejan Đonović, Evgenija Eshkina Kovačević, Istvan Hun
- Production company: Atalanta, Subotica / Art&Popcorn, Beograd / Mediawave 2000, Budimpešta / Studio Arkadena, Ljubljana
- Producers: Miroslav Mogorović, Szabolcs Tolnai
7 awards
ON
5 Festivals
WORLD WIDE
- 1st Serbian Film Festival Novi Sad Serbia - 2007 Competition
- Sopot Film Festival Sopot Serbia - 2007 Competition
- Thessaloniki FF Thessaloniki Greece - 2008 Competition
- Bratislava FF Bratislava Slovakia - 2008
- Hungarian Film Week Budapest Hungary - 2008 Competition
- Palic European Film Festival Palic Serbia - 2008 Competition