The Lord's Lantern in Budapest

Jan 28, 1999

1h 43m

★ 6.2

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.

Genres

Comedy

Drama

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Cast

Kapa

Zoltán Mucsi

Pepe

Péter Scherer

Józsi

József Szarvas

Himself

Miklós Jancsó

Himself

Gyula Hernádi

Emese

Emese Vasvári

Zsolti

Zsolt Kovács

György

György Fehér

Józsi bácsi

József Böjte

Judit

Csoma Judit

Anger

Zsolt Anger

Pista / Cemetery director

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