Zoltán Mucsi

  • Miklós Jancsó – Nekem lámpást adott kezembe az Úr Pesten AKA Lord’s Lantern in Budapest (1999)

    1991-2000ArthouseComedyHungaryMiklós Jancsó
    Nekem lámpást adott kezembe az Úr Pesten (1999)
    Nekem lámpást adott kezembe az Úr Pesten (1999)

    Five different stories are connected by two recurring characters: gravediggers Kapa and Pepe. In one story, the director and screenwriter are characters. Killed by assassins, their ashes are then mixed up by the antic gravediggers. In another, a rich man persuades a poor one not to kill himself, and ends up committing suicide himself, while in a third, characters in a country mansion meditate on Hungarian history, revolution and violence.Read More »

  • Miklós Jancsó & István Márton – Kelj fel, komám, ne aludjál AKA Wake Up, Mate, Don’t You Sleep (2002)

    Miklós Jancsó2001-2010ArthouseComedyHungaryIstván Márton
    Kelj fel, komám, ne aludjál (2002)
    Kelj fel, komám, ne aludjál (2002)

    We are in standing in the ‘Puszta’, our pants are flapping, … Kapa and Pepe… Pepe, would you have guessed that you will be a prisoner-of-war in your own country? … There are some, who dig the soul out of its body. But who is to find there? A National German SS, a Hungarian foot-soldier, a Jew with a yellow star, a gymnastorkha Russian and a NATO soldier ride a bicycle on the Chain-Bridge.

    Wake Up, Mate, Don’t You Sleep! We lost the sheep with the bell. Jancsó in army uniform, Hernádi in a hat in front of the judges and then on a hospital bed, the T-34 Russian tank brings us Russian oranges and the feeding of fallen angels is strictly forbidden!Read More »

  • Pater Sparrow – 1 (2009)

    2001-2010HungaryPater SparrowSci-Fi

    A bookshop renowned for its rare works is mysteriously and completely filled with copies of a book entitled 1, which doesn’t appear to have a publisher or author. The strange almanac describes what happens to the whole of humanity in the space of a minute. A police investigation begins and the bookshop staff are placed in solitary confinement by the Bureau for Paranormal Research (RDI Reality Defense Institute). As the investigation progresses, the situation becomes more complex and the book increasingly well known, raising numerous controversies (political, scientific, religious and artistic). Plagued by doubts, the protagonist has to face facts: reality only exists in the imagination of individuals.

    Based on Stanislaw Lem’s experimental novel One Human Minute.Read More »

  • Nimród Antal – Kontroll AKA Control (2003)

    2001-2010ComedyHungaryNimrod AntalThriller

    Synopsis:
    Ghost trains and ghostly characters, figuratively speaking of course, are what run through the perpetual night of this underground metro system. Bulcsú’s (Sándor Csányi) life that once was, on the surface, where the real people go home after work, who go to the movies or a fine restaurant is now replaced by the dark, cold and solitude arena of his new dwellings. He, and his motley crew of ragtag metro ticket Kontrollers must patrol the trains that run these City dwellers back and forth and with daily ritual, check that no one dare come down into their world for a free ride. With indifferent passengers, a possible love interest, a regime set on competition and to top it all a mysterious serial killer at large, Kontroll is a dark and bleak comedy of the world of the ticket inspector, who, in the end must keep this Metro system running. If not, what would be the worst that could happen, if they ever lost control? Dare you ride here for free, too?Read More »

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