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The Lord's Lantern in Budapest

61 %|Jan 28, 1999|Comedy, Drama

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.

Featured Crew

Miklós Jancsó
Director
Miklós Jancsó
Writer
Gyula Hernádi
Writer
Ferenc Grunwalsky
Writer
György Ferenczi
Original Music Composer
György Ránki
Additional Soundtrack
Zsuzsa Csákány
Editor
Tamás Banovich
Production Design