Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 432 min
- Age rating
- 15
- Language
- Hungarian
- Country
- Germany, Hungary, Switzerland
Why tonight?
- A long one. Start it early, and give it the whole evening.
- In Hungarian — subtitles on.
The story
Inhabitants of a small village in Hungary deal with the effects of the fall of Communism. The town's source of revenue, a factory, has closed, and the locals, who include a doctor and three couples, await a cash payment offered in the wake of the shuttering. Irimias, a villager thought to be dead, returns and, unbeknownst to the locals, is a police informant. In a scheme, he persuades the villagers to form a commune with him.
- farm
- countryside
- based on novel or book
- cat
- rain
- hungary
- loneliness
- art house
- poverty
- black and white
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- László feLugossy — Schmidt
- Alfréd Járai — Halics
- János Derzsi — Kráner
- Irén Szajki — Kránerné
- Éva Almássy Albert — Schmidtné
- Erzsébet Gaál — Halicsné
- Peter Berling — Orvos
- György Barkó — Iskolaigazgató
- Zoltán Kamondi — Kocsmáros
- Barna Mihók — Kerekes
- Péter Dobai — Százados
- Directed
- Béla Tarr
Production
- Studio
- Von Vietinghoff Filmproduktion, Vega Film, Mozgókép Innovációs Társulás és Alapítvány, Magyar Televízió, TSR
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
