His Master's Voice

  Directed by: György Pálfi Released: 2025 (educational) Year of Production: 2018 Running Time: 108 min Language: Hungarian, English Subtitle Options: English Closed Captions Subjects: Narrative Feature, Drama                This head-spinning, divisive sci-fi drama by Hungarian arthouse experimenter György Pálfi (Hukkle, Taxidermia) adapts, loosely, one of Polish writer Stanisław Lem’s most esteemed works, the philosophical novel His Master’s Voice (Głos Pana—“The Voice of the Lord”—in the original Polish).  When Péter (Csaba Polgár), a Hungarian journalist, glimpses his missing-for-decades father in a documentary about a mysterious incident in Colorado that has long obsessed conspiracy theorists, he travels to America to investigate, and becomes embroiled in strange events involving secret government programs, Cold War politics, and, perhaps, extraterrestrial contact.  The film’s dizzying array of multimedia formats and disorienting shifts in mood and tone are director Pá