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The Lord's Lantern in Budapest (1999)
Directed by Miklós Jancsó
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.
Length 103 minutes
Actors
Zoltán Mucsi | Péter Scherer | Szarvas József | Miklós Jancsó | Gyula Hernádi | Emese Vasvári | Zsolt Kovács | György Fehér | József Böjte | Csoma Judit | Anger Zsolt | István Márton | Balázs Galkó | Szonja Oroszlán | Virág Csapó | András Lovasi | Zolee Ganxsta | György Ferenczi | Jácint Juhász | Mihály Szabados | Attila Rácz | Ferenc Novák | Andrea Ladányi