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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
01
Why this pick
Its affectionate, wry portrait of a working-class Budapest community shares Wait a Minute’s lived-in socialist-era texture, comic warmth, and attention to everyday dreams colliding with institutional routines.
02
Why this pick
A sharper, more absurdist Hungarian satire of bureaucracy and public ritual, with the same pleasure in watching ordinary people navigate an official world that keeps redefining common sense.
03
Why this pick
This blends domestic comedy with steadily tightening social pressure, echoing the original’s focus on a close community whose routines and relationships become revealing under authority.
04
Why this pick
Its village association fundraiser turns collective pride and ceremonial planning into precise, humane comedy—an especially close match for the factory celebration and ensemble observation in Wait a Minute.
05
Why this pick
A buoyant workplace comedy centered on employees, management, and collective spirit; it offers a more openly cheerful counterpart to the factory-floor social world of Wait a Minute.
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01 / THE STORY
This film shows us around a factory in the seventies in Hungary. In the outskirts factory of Kőbánya workers celebrate the foundation members and want to present the oldest member, Uncle Benda, now a pensioner, with a golden ring. His grandson, Karcsi Merkovics, an industrial apprentice, is in love with the foreman's daughter.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Babjákné
Benda Mihály
Juli
Benda Karcsi
Merkovics
Irénke, a titkárnõ
Czidlina, mûvezetõ
Párttitkár