Casting Everything 2008

Casting Everything (2008) is a film from Hungary in the lookmovie catalog, running 1h 30m. Directed by Péter Tímár, it features Ibolya Oláh and András Kern. Viewers rate it 7.5/10 from 2 votes. The story is based around an American Idol kind of TV talent show and the eventual winner of the contest: a young orphan woman, who works at an orphanage herself. As I learned from the werkfilm on the DVD, the story was specifically written for Oláh, who in real life was the runner-up of the very first such TV show in Hungary “Megasztár” (“MegaStar”) in 2004. She didn’t win there despite being many viewers’ favorite and having a terrific voice. It is kind of a consolation that she won in the movie, although reading the legal troubles about getting her fee must have made the victory sour.