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AN ABSURD LOVE COMEDY WITH HUNGARY, 1989, as the set, where the deconstruction of the one party system just has begun. A young couple, building their dream house in a suburb to Budapest, is suddenly having troubles both in their life together and with their neighbor's, when their inhibitions disappear and a matrimonial quarrel break out. The woman has been infected with a mysterious veneral disease, the neighbor turns out to be a Stalinist, training a private army in his basement. Total war break out. Then mother-in-law arrives...

Comment:
A HUNGARIAN FARCE IN THE BACK-WATER of the Great Changes. The opening with a quarreling married couple and a crazy neighbor makes you believe this is going to be an ordinary comedy with the traditional cliche characters.
But, as the story unwinds, the film and its characters grow. The director, and also author of the screen-play, Peter Timar, has a playful way of narrating which lifts the film above the ordinary. He mixes conventional imagery with unusual camera angles and eccentric cuts. (The cuts, by themselves, are sometimes hilarious.)
The film has also a more serious level, which makes the audience-member feel less forced to laugh all the times at the obviously comical. There is room even for serious after-thought and compassion. For example, in the war between the better halves. You both smile and suffer when you see how they give each other hell, again and again. And, not to forget the neighbor, the ex-Stalinist/communist, excellently acted by Karoly Eperjes, who together with a whole group of ex-Stalinists/communists are preparing themselves to reinstate the old regime in their own very particular way. They pray to the red star, secretly ... No, it's not easy. That's not hard to believe.
Little by little more people are pulled into the action.
And all are somewhat odd. All have their peculiarities ... The peculiarities and the details of the production makes this film what it is. A charming Hungarian comedy.
JANNIKE GRUT

Medverkande
Vera Papp, Sandor Gaspar, Karoly Eperjes: Producent
Pal Sandor: Manus
Péter Timar: Foto
Péter Szatmari: Musik
Sandor Hoffmann: Talat språk
Hungarian