
Death in Shallow Water
1994, Hungarian. Directed by Barna Kabay & Imre Gyöngyössy.
1991, farewell in Budapest. Mária remembers the past in tears. Her husband, Tibor, a chemist and a target of the KGB, left their apartment one evening to fetch some cigarettes only to be found drowned in the shallow Lake Balaton the following day. Their son, Peter, a student in Western-Europe, was found dead on the Danube embankment.
- Runtime
- 1h 39m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- Hungarian
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- Released
- 12 May 1994
- Original title
- Halál sekély vízben
- Country
- Germany, Austria, Hungary
- Written by
- Katalin Petényi, Imre Gyöngyössy
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Death in Shallow Water runs 99 minutes (1h 39m).
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Who directed Death in Shallow Water?
Death in Shallow Water (1994) was directed by Barna Kabay and Imre Gyöngyössy and stars Anna Romantowska, Erika Bodnár, Michael Marwitz.