Plots(1)
Fire! Fire!: Four men in raggedy clothes hang out in the devastated city. Communication is limited to physical needs, the valuable held in the highest esteem is a piece of bread and belonging to each-other, the petit-burgeois romanticism of love. Hungarian pizza. Penniless family in a rental apartment in Budapest with the man unemployed. As exceptional luxury, they order home pizza. The pizza-boy is followed by homeless men with empty stomachs. The grotesquely reserved dinner ceremony suddenly turns into a fight. In the end two survivors, the professor and the young boy embark on a perhaps not entirely futureless journey in the city. The Great Hungarian Brain Death. The direct sending of the great brain death is on the national media stage, and absolute freedom is questionned by strange body-guards. Cynical nostalgia, national romanticism and illusions mix with the elements of a petty, rude and low-level reality. It is all playing and flesh-and-blood reality at the same time. In the end the author says good-bye to the audience by waving his hand in this repeatedly re-written and confused drama. Or is the performance just about to start? (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Attila Epres
Hungary
Best movies:
Diary for My Loves (1987)
Brazilok (2017)
Dénes Újlaky
Kingdom of Hungary
Best movies:
Narcissus and Psyche (1980)
Citizen X (1995) (TV movie)
Passion (1998)
Károly Eperjes
Hungary
Ferenc Kállai
Kingdom of Hungary
Best movies:
Werckmeister Harmonies (2000)
The Witness (1969)
6:3 (1999)
György Cserhalmi
Hungary
Best movies:
The Fifth Seal (1976)
Narcissus and Psyche (1980)
Paths of Light (2005)
Dezső Garas
Kingdom of Hungary
Best movies:
Narcissus and Psyche (1980)
Perlasca: The Courage of a Just Man (2002) (TV movie)
Two Half-Times in Hell (1961)
Gyula Benkő
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
The Last Nabob (1966)
Two Half-Times in Hell (1961)
The Fortress (1979)
András Kern
Hungary
Best movies:
Mattie, the Goose-Boy (1977)
6:3 (1999)
The Lost Talisman (1968)
Lajos Kovács
Kingdom of Hungary
Best movies:
Paths of Light (2005)
Les Ailes du désir (1987)
6:3 (1999)
Judit Hernádi
Hungary
Best movies:
Mephisto (1981)
The Fortress (1979)
Another Way (1982)
Miklós Székely B.
Hungary
Best movies:
Sátántangó (1994)
Twilight (1990)
Damnation (1988)
Andrea Moldvai Kiss
Best movies:
We Started Together (2022)
The Lord's Lantern in Budapest (1999)
Hédi Temessy
Kingdom of Hungary
Best movies:
Mephisto (1981)
Damnation (1988)
Almanac of Fall (1985)
Ila Schütz
Kingdom of Hungary
Best movies:
Nobody's Daughter (1976)
Sunshine (1999)
Silence and Cry (1968)
Enikő Eszenyi
Hungary
Best movies:
Kontroll (2003)
Abandoned (2001)
Smutný valčík (1996) (TV movie)
István Iglódi
Kingdom of Hungary
Best movies:
The Corporal and Others (1965)
László Görög
Hungary
Best movies:
Napoléon (2002) (series)
On the Quiet (2019)
A Kind Of America (2002)
Erika Balogh
Hungary
Best movies:
Zsolt Csalog
Kingdom of Hungary
László Földes
Kingdom of Hungary
Best movies:
Bald-Dog-Rock (1981)
Long Dusk (1997)
Eskimo Woman Feels Cold (1984)