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 »
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 »