Wake Up, Mate, Don't You Sleep (2003)

  • NR
  • 02/06/2003 (HU)
  • Drama, Comedy
  • 1h 24m

A múlthoz nem visszanyúlni kell, a múltat le kell nyúlni.

Overview

This time, Kapa and Pepe are first of all prisoners of war – and convicts taken to forced labor service, Jews, Hungarian soldiers, German soldiers. Once they are to be executed, then again they are to perform executions. The film tells in spectacular episodes about the fact that in the past more than one century and a half we kept marching from war to war; occupation and liberation turned out to be indifferent, and why couldn’t the Jews execute the SS-guys? Our heroes hover about dilapidated barracks, then again on the bridges of the capital they guess whose satellites or eternal friends for all times we might be just now. In the cupboard, among the preserved fruit bottles, Stalin is still hiding. The authors of the film are cited before court, then in a showcase hospital they are waiting for the end to come. A Soviet soldier-maid closes the film with a Péter Nádas-quote.

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
Ildikó Tóth's headshot

Ildikó Tóth

Russian girl
Miklós Jancsó's headshot

Miklós Jancsó

Himself
Gyula Hernádi's headshot

Gyula Hernádi

Himself
Judit Schell's headshot

Judit Schell

German officer
István Márton's headshot

István Márton

Pista
Balázs Galkó's headshot

Balázs Galkó

Galkó

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