The read
Critics rate it 18 points higher than audiences do. Scores higher than 99% of the 1,941 1990s drama movies in this catalog. It runs long at 7h 12m.
Synopsis
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.
Ratings
IMDb8.2/10
Rotten Tomatoes100%
Critics rate it 18 points higher than audiences do.
321 audience votes
Key crew
- Béla TarrScreenplay
- László KrasznahorkaiScreenplay
- Béla TarrDirector
- Mihály VígOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Mihály VígIrimiás
- Putyi HorváthPetrina
- Székely B. MiklósFutaki
- Erika BókEstike
- László feLugossySchmidt
- Alfréd JáraiHalics
- János DerzsiKráner
- Irén SzajkiKránerné
- Éva Almássy AlbertSchmidtné
- Erzsébet GaálHalicsné
- Peter BerlingOrvos
- György BarkóIskolaigazgató
Themes
farmcountrysidebased on novel or bookcatrainhungarylonelinessart housepovertyblack and whitewriteralcoholic
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