Hungary

  • February 4, 2012
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    Frigyes Bán & Vladislav Pavlovic – Szent Péter esernyöje AKA St. Peter’s Umbrella (1958)

    1951-1960DramaFrigyes Bán and Vladislav PavlovicHungary

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    Plot / Synopsis

    The movie St. Peter’s Umbrella, is an adaptation of one of the best-known works of Kálmán Mikszáth, and based on a real-life story. In the plot, a new priest is appointed in Glogova, a town in the Hungarian highlands. The priest has to take care of his two-year-old orphaned sister, Veronka. On a summer day, she is sheltered from a shower by an umbrella put above her. As people begin to gossip that the mysterious helper was Saint Peter himself, the umbrella becomes a holy relic bringing a lot of money. Yet one day the truth is revealed: the benefactor was not Saint Peter and the umbrella is indeed worth a fortune. A bitter chase begins, at the end of which something far more precious than money is found. The enchanting story is in fact a fully elaborated anecdote about finding happiness in discovering sincere love rather than in the pursuit of wealth.Read More »

  • February 4, 2012
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    Péter Gárdos – Szamárköhögés AKA Whooping Cough (1987)

    1981-1990ComedyDramaHungaryPéter Gárdos

    By the eighties, as the communist regime was slowly crumbling, making films about the 1956 revolution was no longer a taboo.

    In Whooping Cough, we see how the failed revolution unfolds through the eyes of a middle-class family and especially their two young children.

    By seeing the children experience the revolution as they come of age, we see the early socialist Hungarian society becoming increasingly disillusioned and coming to grips with its new reality.

    — Ábel Bede (kafkadesk.org)Read More »

  • February 3, 2012
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    János Rózsa – A trombitás AKA The Trumpeter (1979)

    1971-1980DramaHungaryJános Rózsa

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    The film takes place after the Thököly insurrection as a result of the persecutions and deprivations bandit was going downhill between exiles. One three robbers slaughter and cleans it out the Polish host of sixteen year boys. They leave a trumpeter’s life because a beautiful Kuruc sings songs on his trumpet.Read More »

  • January 31, 2012
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    Gyula Nemes – Papagáj AKA Parrot (1999)

    1991-2000DramaGyula NemesHungaryShort Film

    Surrealist short feature about common tricks of uncle Pepin and the young Bohumil Hrabal. The harum-scarum young man pays his looney uncle a visit and his life changes at once. We can find out, where the snowmen lives in summer, what Franz Joe’s favorite food was, how to sell one half of a pair of shoes and fly in a cage.Read More »

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