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The Lord's Lantern in Budapest
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The Lord's Lantern in Budapest

1999-01-28 · 103 min · ★ 6.4

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.

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Directors
Miklós Jancsó
Production companies
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Countries
Hungary
Status
Released

Top Cast

Zoltán MucsiZoltán MucsiKapa
Péter SchererPéter SchererPepe
József SzarvasJózsef SzarvasJózsi
Miklós JancsóMiklós JancsóHimself
Gyula HernádiGyula HernádiHimself
Emese VasváriEmese VasváriEmese
Zsolt KovácsZsolt KovácsZsolti
György FehérGyörgy FehérGyörgy
József BöjteJózsef BöjteJózsi bácsi
Csoma JuditCsoma JuditJudit
Zsolt AngerZsolt AngerAnger
István MártonPista / Cemetery director
Balázs GalkóBalázs GalkóGalkó
Szonja OroszlánSzonja OroszlánInterpreter
Virág CsapóVirág CsapóEnikő
András LovasiAndrás LovasiThe singer
Zolee 'Döglégy' GanxstaZolee 'Döglégy' GanxstaSelf
György FerencziGyörgy FerencziGyuri
Juhász JácintJuhász Jácint
Mihály SzabadosMihály Szabados

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