The Lord's Lantern in Budapest (1999)

  • NR
  • 01/28/1999 (HU)
  • Comedy, Drama
  • 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.

Miklós Jancsó

Director, Writer

Gyula Hernádi

Writer

Ferenc Grunwalsky

Writer

Cast

Zoltán Mucsi's headshot

Zoltán Mucsi

Kapa
Péter Scherer's headshot

Péter Scherer

Pepe
József Szarvas's headshot

József Szarvas

Józsi
Miklós Jancsó's headshot

Miklós Jancsó

Himself
Gyula Hernádi's headshot

Gyula Hernádi

Himself
Emese Vasvári's headshot

Emese Vasvári

Emese
Zsolt Kovács's headshot

Zsolt Kovács

Zsolti
György Fehér's headshot

György Fehér

György

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