Directed by:
Ferenc TörökScreenplay:
Ferenc TörökCinematography:
Dániel GarasComposer:
Balázs TemesváriCast:
Gábor Karalyos, Erzsi Pápai, Eszter Balla, Vilmos Csatlós, Simon Szabó, András Réthelyi, Bence Jávor, Zsolt Kovács, Ilona Béres, Imre Csuja, Zsanna Éry-Kovács (more)Plots(1)
The release of Ferenc Török's debut, Moscow Square, seemed to announce the arrival of a new sensibility in Hungarian cinema, one that corresponded to a generation that had entirely grown up in the post-communist era. It's April, 1989; Petya, Kiegler, Ságodi and their friends spend their evenings hanging around the clock tower in Moscow Square, while all around them the old regime teeters on the verge of collapse. Everyone feels that something is about to happen: the question is whether they make it happen or just wait for whatever's coming. For some, like Petya and his girlfriend Zsófi, the new world means getting out of Hungary and getting to know the wider world. Few films have more effectively captured that sense of life on the eve a momentous political and social transformation - that unsettling combination of giddy optimism for the future and creeping fear of the unknown. Török cast his film largely with unknowns either from local high schools or the Academy of Drama. It became one of the most important cult films in Hungary following the regime change and was screened at many international film festivals. (CinEast)
(more)Cast
László Keszég
Yugoslavia
Best movies:
The Company (2007) (series)
Adrienn Pál (2010)
Moscow Square (2001)
Zsolt Vicei
Yugoslavia
Best movies:
Sleepwalkers (2002)
Moscow Square (2001)
Red Sparrow (2018)
János Nemes
Best movies:
Sunshine (1999)
Moscow Square (2001)
Istanbul (2011)
Péter Gyárfás
Best movies:
Taxidermia (2006)
Moscow Square (2001)
Istanbul (2011)
Sándor Kruppa
Best movies:
Sleepwalkers (2002)
Moscow Square (2001)
János Nemes
Best movies:
Moscow Square (2001)
Zsuzsa Vészi
Best movies:
Moscow Square (2001)
Vilmos Vajdai
Hungary
Best movies:
Moscow Square (2001)
Genesis (2018)
Gitta Rajnai
Best movies:
Moscow Square (2001)
Sosa Juristovszky
Best movies:
Moscow Square (2001)
Pál Simonfay
Best movies:
Moscow Square (2001)
Edit Handel
Kingdom of Hungary
Best movies:
Moscow Square (2001)
Ferenc Glatz (a.f.)
Kingdom of Hungary
Best movies:
Moscow Square (2001) - a.f.
László B. Tóth
Hungary
Best movies:
Moscow Square (2001)
Marie Joisson
Best movies:
Moscow Square (2001)
Tibor Kiss (narrator)
Hungary
Best movies:
Moscow Square (2001) - narrator