Angelmakers, The

The forgotten story of the women who killed their husbands.

The Angelmakers is an observational portrait of the sleepy village of Nagyrev in rural Hungary. We meet its inhabitants, who share with us their daily life as well as their memories of the village’s tainted past. We gradually come to understand the extent of the ‘arsenic murders’ which took place in 1929, when a large group of women were held responsible for poisoning their husbands with the so-called ‘flypaper’ method.

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.