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The Lord's Lantern in Budapest (1999)

The Lord's Lantern in Budapest (1999)

Drama Comedy

Ha én állat lennék, nem tartanék embert a lakásban...

Release Date: 1999, January 28
Directors: Miklós Jancsó
Countries: Hungary
Cast: Szonja Oroszlán, Zsolt Anger, Zoltán Mucsi, Zolee 'Döglégy' Ganxsta, Péter Scherer, Zsolt Kovács, József Szarvas, Balázs Galkó, András Lovasi, Emese Vasvári, Csoma Judit, Virág Csapó

Overview:

In the Kerepesi Street cemetery, three grave diggers contemplate the fate of the world, then they step out of this role and in a sequence of episodes they play the typical figures of contemporary Hungarian reality, the fat cat, the swashbuckler, the victim, underworld chieftains, and present little absurd dramas of love, marriage, friendship, public order and legal safety. The author and the film director walk among them all the time, contemplating, laughing at their plays. The stories starting from the graveyard and returning there warn of the inevitability of death. The author and the director (Gyula Hernádi and Miklós Jancsó) wisely make friends with death.

Keywords:

businessman budapest, hungary metamorphosis