Prize of Survival

  • Hungary A túlélés ára
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Hungary / Germany, 1990, 100 min

Directed by:

Pál Erdőss

Screenplay:

István Kardos

Cinematography:

Ferenc Pap, László Ramm

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This documentary feature film is about the fagging and self-destructive Hungarians in the period of the change of regime. The older Dám works for an architectural company and is building a house for his son. In the evenings and at week-ends he works as a super and sells his labour on Moszkva Square. He would not refrain from selling farmers in the neighbouring country. He organizes a wedding-feast, a christening and a house-warming that the relatives, friends and neighbours expect from him. Some things are new in the new regime. He has to count with the Mafia, and with being caught red-handed when stock-jobbing and with the whole family falling apart because of pursuing money. (official distributor synopsis)

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