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Peter Medak sits in his London home, sifting through old photographs from the sets of 'The Ruling Class' and 'Romeo and Juliet'. His voice, calm and slightly weary, narrates not so much a career retrospective as a reflection on the persistent feeling of being an outsider — a Hungarian émigré in British cinema, a director whose most personal films often lingered in the shadows. This 2025 documentary portrait examines the filmmaker's journey through the lens of his central theme: the masks and pretenses people adopt to survive in society or within the industry. From early television work to cult horror and intimate dramas, the film traces how the personal history of an exile shaped his unique perspective on outsider characters. Archival footage, interviews with collaborators, and Medak's own musings combine to portray an artist for whom cinema became both a refuge and a means to speak truth about human insincerity.