About This Film
Festival Year: 1988
Run Time: 90 Minutes
Film Type: Feature
Animated: No
Countr(ies): Hungary
English Subtitles: No
Captions: None
Film Overview
In this child's-eye view of the 1956 Hungarian uprising, there is gunfire in the streets, school is closed and life for the children is a holiday. Rarely leaving their apartment, the adults are terrified — except Grandma who returns from shopping with bullet-ridden bread. The homely father things he's another Fred Astaire; the mother worries about her lover; Grandma is militant; 10-year-old Tomi is obsessed with sex; and little Anamari shouts politically dangerous slogans out the window. Peter Gardos (THE PHILADELPHIA ATTRACTION) offers a warm, loveable tragicomedy of a household's reaction to a traumatic world.
