The Lord's Lantern in Budapest

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.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

January 28, 1999

Original language

Hungarian

Spoken languages

Hungarian

Countries

Hungary

Cast

Csoma Judit,Zolee 'Döglégy' Ganxsta,György Ferenczi,Miklós Jancsó,György Fehér,József Böjte,Szonja Oroszlán,Ferenc Novák,Emese Vasvári,Zsolt Angerand 13 more

Director

Miklós Jancsó

Writer

Ferenc Grunwalsky,Miklós Jancsó,Gyula Hernádi

Producer

József Böjte

Cinematography

Ferenc Grunwalsky

Music

György Ferenczi,Zolee 'Döglégy' Ganxsta

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0185534