Wake Up, Mate, Don't You Sleep

Overview

This time, Kapa and Pepe are first of all prisoners of war – and convicts taken to forced labor service, Jews, Hungarian soldiers, German soldiers. Once they are to be executed, then again they are to perform executions. The film tells in spectacular episodes about the fact that in the past more than one century and a half we kept marching from war to war; occupation and liberation turned out to be indifferent, and why couldn’t the Jews execute the SS-guys? Our heroes hover about dilapidated barracks, then again on the bridges of the capital they guess whose satellites or eternal friends for all times we might be just now. In the cupboard, among the preserved fruit bottles, Stalin is still hiding. The authors of the film are cited before court, then in a showcase hospital they are waiting for the end to come. A Soviet soldier-maid closes the film with a Péter Nádas-quote.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

February 6, 2003

Original language

Hungarian

Spoken languages

German, Hungarian, Russian

Countries

Hungary

Production

Budapest Film Kft.,Neurópa Film Kft

Cast

Székely B. Miklós,István Márton,András Hajós,Zoltán Mucsi,Miklós Jancsó,Balázs Galkó,Ildikó Tóth,Béla Fesztbaum,András Lovasi,Emese Vasváriand 3 more

Director

Miklós Jancsó

Writer

Miklós Jancsó,Gyula Hernádi,Ferenc Grunwalsky

Producer

András Ozorai

Cinematography

Ferenc Grunwalsky

Music

Burzsoá Nyugdíjasok,Bëlga,Kispál és a Borz

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0351172