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The Lord's Lantern in Budapest(1999)
Status: Released
Date: 1999-01-28
64%
9 Votes
Time: 1h 43m
Ha én állat lennék, nem tartanék embert a lakásban...
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.
Languages: Hungarian.
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Hungary
Movie: The Lord's Lantern in Budapest
Top 10 Billed Cast
Mucsi Zoltán
Kapa
Scherer Péter
Pepe
Szarvas József
Józsi
Miklós Jancsó
Himself
Hernádi Gyula
Himself
Emese Vasvári
Emese
Zsolt Kovács
Zsolti
György Fehér
György
József Böjte
Józsi bácsi
Csoma Judit
Judit
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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.
Release Date
1999-01-28
Average
6.4
Rating:
3.2 startsTagline
Ha én állat lennék, nem tartanék embert a lakásban...
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