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Jan 28, 1999 · The Lord's Lantern in Budapest: Directed by Miklós Jancsó. With Zoltán Mucsi, Péter Scherer, József Szarvas, Miklós Jancsó. A portrait of the wild capitalism after the regime change in Hungary, in which the characters show with a continuous change of identity how interests override everything.
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- Comedy, Drama
- Miklós Jancsó
- 1999-01-28
The Lord's Lantern in Budapest (Hungarian: Nekem lámpást adott kezembe az Úr Pesten) is a 1999 Hungarian film written and directed by Miklós Jancsó. It was Hungary's official Best Foreign Language Film submission at the 72nd Academy Awards, but did not manage to receive a nomination.
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- Zoltán Mucsi
- Miklós Jancsó
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 ...
Five stories center around the irony and humor of life and death.
- Comedy, Drama
Jan 28, 1999 · 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 ...
The Lord's Lantern in Budapest is a film directed by Miklós Jancsó with Zoltán Mucsi, Péter Scherer, József Szarvas, Miklós Jancsó .... Year: 1999. Original title: Nekem lámpást adott kezembe az Úr Pesten. Synopsis: Five different stories are connected by two recurring characters: gravediggers Kapa and Pepe.
