CINEHUNCH / YOUR NEXT CHAPTER

A FRESH ALLOWANCE AT MIDNIGHT · ISTANBUL TIME

Back to the finderTHE FILM / 1994
Sátántangó posterA FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOK

THE FEATURE PRESENTATION

MOVIE1994 7h 39m HUN

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01 / THE STORY

A little about the film.

On the eve of a large payment, residents of a collapsing collective farm see their plans turn into desolation when they discover that Irimiás, a former co-worker who they thought was dead, is returning to the community.

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