SUNSET (NAPSZALLTA) World Cinema

It’s 1913, Budapest, in the heart of Europe as World War I approaches. The young Irisz Leiter arrives in the Hungarian capital with high hopes to work as a milliner at Leiter, the legendary hat store that once belonged to her late parents; but she is quickly sent away by the new owner, Oszkaìr Brill. While preparations are underway at the store to host important, wealthy, royal guests, a man abruptly comes to Irisz, looking for a Kaìlmaìn Leiter, whom he says is her brother. Refusing to leave the city, the young woman follows Kaìlmaìn’s tracks, her only link to a lost past. Her quest brings her through the dark streets of Budapest — where only the Leiter hat store shines — into the turmoil of a civilization on the eve of its downfall.