
Wake Up, Mate, Don't You Sleep
"A múlthoz nem visszanyúlni kell, a múltat le kell nyúlni."
Overview
This time, Kapa and Pepe are first of all prisoners of war – and convicts taken to forced labor service, Jews, Hungarian soldiers, German soldiers. Once they are to be executed, then again they are to perform executions. The film tells in spectacular episodes about the fact that in the past more than one century and a half we kept marching from war to war; occupation and liberation turned out to be indifferent, and why couldn’t the Jews execute the SS-guys? Our heroes hover about dilapidated barracks, then again on the bridges of the capital they guess whose satellites or eternal friends for all times we might be just now. In the cupboard, among the preserved fruit bottles, Stalin is still hiding. The authors of the film are cited before court, then in a showcase hospital they are waiting for the end to come. A Soviet soldier-maid closes the film with a Péter Nádas-quote.
Movie Details
Languages
German
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Studio
Budapest Film Kft.
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Key Crew

Miklós Jancsó
Director

Miklós Jancsó
Writer

Gyula Hernádi
Writer

Ferenc Grunwalsky
Writer
Cast

Zoltán Mucsi
Kapa

Péter Scherer
Pepe

Ildikó Tóth
Russian Girl

Miklós Jancsó
Miklós Jancsó

Gyula Hernádi
Gyula Hernádi

Judit Schell
German Officer
István Márton
Pista

Balázs Galkó
Galkó

Béla Fesztbaum
Béla

Emese Vasvári
Emese

Székely B. Miklós
Old Hungarian Soldier

András Hajós
Talent Scout

András Lovasi
Himself