The Lord's Lantern in Budapest (1998)

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Ha én állat lennék, nem tartanék embert a lakásban...

103 min★ 6.7 · 1,085 votes

• Comedy
• Drama

In the Kerepesi Street cemetery, three grave diggers contemplate the fate of the world, then they step out of this role and in a sequence of episodes they play the typical figures of contemporary Hungarian reality, the fat cat, the swashbuckler, the victim, underworld chieftains, and present little absurd dramas of love, marriage, friendship, public order and legal safety. The author and the film director walk among them all the time, contemplating, laughing at their plays. The stories starting from the graveyard and returning there warn of the inevitability of death. The author and the director (Gyula Hernádi and Miklós Jancsó) wisely make friends with death.

Release date

January 28, 1999

Country of origin

Hungary