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The Witness
Why this pick
Its deadpan absurdity turns an ordinary man’s ambitions and survival instincts into sharply observed satire, with the same comic warmth beneath institutional frustration.
A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
MOVIE1973 1h 24m HUN
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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Why this pick
A bittersweet, visually distinctive Hungarian portrait of youth negotiating compromised adult systems; less farcical, but similarly humane about private dreams meeting public reality.
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The Toth Family
Why this pick
This increasingly off-kilter village comedy finds tenderness and tension in people bending themselves around authority, echoing the original’s social satire and lived-in community texture.
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The Firemen's Ball
Why this pick
Its small-town event becomes a precise comic machine of vanity, bungling and collective self-interest—close to the original’s fond yet cutting view of communal aspiration.
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The Cup
Why this pick
A gentle football-centered comedy about a small group trying to hold onto a match amid larger constraints, matching the original’s feeling that sport can sustain an entire world.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
The laundryman only lives for one thing: soccer. His dream is to have his team in the premier league, but for that he needs money and the only way he can do that is by selling some of his players.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Dezsö Garas
Minarik Ede, mosodás
Tamás Major
Kerényi úr
László Márkus
Turner Pipi
Hédi Temessy
Cserépkalapos nõ
Cecília Esztergályos
Ila, a bundás nõ
Ildikó Szabó
Vajaskenyeres lány
Gizi Péter
Minárikné, Aranka
András Kern
Kövesdi, tartalék