Release Date | 1973-09-27 |
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Runtime | 97 minutes |
Genres | Drama, Romance, History |
Stars | Lucyna Winnicka, Margit Makay, Károly Kovács, András Bálint, Erzsi Pásztor |
Directors | István Szabó, Luca Karall, István Szabó, Sándor Sára, Erzsébet Mialkovszky |
On one hot summer night, the residents of a Hungarian apartment house slated for demolition restlessly revisit their haunted pasts as they face an uncertain future. In a gently turning kaleidoscope of dream imagery, regret-laden nostalgia and painstakingly intimate detail, the looming wrecking ball pales in significance to the accumulated experiences each dreamer revisits. Pre-war prejudice, occupying Nazis and Stalinist deprivations all come and go as each tenant’s backward glance yields moments of aching sensuality, infectious exuberance and catastrophic loss.