The Lord's Lantern in Budapest

The story

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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The Lord's Lantern in Budapest

1999

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2000

Last Supper at the Arabian Gray Horse

2001

Wake Up, Mate, Don't You Sleep

2003

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2004

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2006

Cast

Z Zoltán MucsiKapa P Péter SchererPepe J József SzarvasJózsi M Miklós JancsóHimself G Gyula HernádiHimself E Emese VasváriEmese Z Zsolt KovácsZsolti G György FehérGyörgy J József BöjteJózsi bácsi C Csoma JuditJudit Z Zsolt AngerAnger I István MártonPista / Cemetery director

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B Balázs GalkóGalkó S Szonja OroszlánInterpreter V Virág CsapóEnikő A András LovasiThe singer Z Zolee 'Döglégy' GanxstaSelf G György FerencziGyuri J Juhász Jácint M Mihály Szabados A Attila Rácz F Ferenc Novák A Andrea Ladányi