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The Angelmakers is the debut film of Dutch filmmaker Astrid Bussink.

Shot in location in the small Hungarian rural village of Nagyrév, this documentary (selected for the First Appearance competition at the International Documentary Festival of Amsterdam) is a stunning debut for Astrid Bussink. Alternating between vivid portraits of the surrounding landscape and the old inhabitants' first-hand narrations, the film is an attempt to give an insight into the 'arsenic' murders that tantalised the area in 1929. Depicting the desperation fuelled by male laziness and oppression which led some women to kill their men, an intriguing web of stories unfolds through the characters' memories which recapture old but ever-lasting tales of life, death and the struggle between the sexes. (Most fascinating among them is the midwife's story as well as one of the narrators' revelation that the 'flypaper' murders were a wide-spread practice not only in the particular area but on a national level.) A further insight into the domestic battles that the women of the village currently have to fight makes this documentary a fascinating, unmissable viewing.

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