Packet 4: Tossup 8

In a 1989 film from this country, two twin girls who were born on the day Edison invented the lightbulb reunite (15[1])on the Orient Express. (15[1])An American emigrant neurosurgeon pursues her lover in this country in the film Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time. A director from this country, who explored (15[1]-5[1])familial themes in The Girl and a trilogy titled for diaries, was the first woman to win the Golden Bear (15[1])for her 1975 (-5[1])film Adoption. A man (15[1])and woman (15[1])working for a slaughterhouse both have a dream about deer in this country’s 2017 film On Body and Soul. In the 2000s, an editor from this home country of Ildikó (15[1])(*) Enyedi and Márta Mészáros (10[1])(“MAY-sah-rohsh”) began being credited as co-director alongside her husband, partially since she supervised (10[1])long takes depicting characters like a farmer stuck in a windstorm (10[1])and the audience of a whale circus. (10[2])For 10 points, (10[1])name this home country of the directors of The Turin Horse and (10[1])Werckmeister Harmonies, Ágnes Hranitzky and Béla Tarr. ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: Hungary [or Magyarország] (The film in the lead-in is My Twentieth Century, directed by Ildiko Enyedi.)
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TournamentEditionMatchHeardConv. %Power %Neg %Avg. Buzz
2025 Spec Script - Canada2025-06-212100%50%0%108.00
2025 Spec Script - Online 12025-06-2110100%60%10%95.80
2025 Spec Script - Online 22025-06-213100%0%33%145.67