Whooping Cough

About This Film

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Festival Year: 1988
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Run Time: 90 Minutes
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Film Type: Feature
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Animated: No
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Countr(ies): Hungary
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English Subtitles: No
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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.