Hungarian

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 »

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 »