“Ha én állat lennék, nem tartanék embert a lakásban...”
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.
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Part of Kapa and Pepe Collection
6 films
Cast
24 people
Zoltán Mucsi
Kapa
Known for
Kontroll
1
Szarvas József
Józsi
Péter Scherer
Pepe
Known for
Kontroll
Bet on Revenge
József Szarvas
Józsi
Known for
1945
Miklós Jancsó
Himself
Also in
Legkisebb film a legnagyobb magyarról
Gyula Hernádi
Himself
Also in
Cantata
Emese Vasvári
Emese
Also in
Russian Doll
Zanox
Zsolt Kovács
Zsolti
Known for
Primal
György Fehér
György
Also in
Jesus Christ's Horoscope
Season of Monsters
József Böjte
Józsi bácsi
Csoma Judit
Judit
Also in
The King
Tóth János
Zsolt Anger
Anger
Known for
Strangled
Post Mortem
Miklós Jancsó Director · Gyula Hernádi Writer Ferenc Grunwalsky Writer
First release January 28, 1999 · Produced in Hungary · Original title Nekem lámpást adott kezembe az Úr Pesten
Production
Hungary
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Languages
Original title
Nekem lámpást adott kezembe az Úr Pesten
Original language
Hungarian
Spoken on screen
Hungarian
Release dates
Hungary · January 28, 1999
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
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