The Lord's Lantern in Budapest poster

The Lord's Lantern in Budapest poster

The Lord's Lantern in Budapest

Ha én állat lennék, nem tartanék embert a lakásban...

1999 1h 43m 6.4Movie

ComedyDrama

In the Kerepesi Street cemetery, three grave diggers contemplate the fate of the world, then they step out of this role and in a sequence of episodes they play the typical figures of contemporary Hungarian reality, the fat cat, the swashbuckler, the victim, underworld chieftains, and present little absurd dramas of love, marriage, friendship, public order and legal safety. The author and the film director walk among them all the time, contemplating, laughing at their plays. The stories starting from the graveyard and returning there warn of the inevitability of death. The author and the director (Gyula Hernádi and Miklós Jancsó) wisely make friends with death.

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Crew

Directors

Miklós Jancsó

Director, Writer

Writers

Ferenc Grunwalsky

Writer, Director of Photography

Miklós Jancsó

Director, Writer

Gyula Hernádi

Writer

Producers

József Böjte

Producer

Cinematographers

Ferenc Grunwalsky

Writer, Director of Photography

Editors

Zsuzsa Csákány

Editor

Composers

György Ferenczi

Original Music Composer

Zolee 'Döglégy' Ganxsta

Original Music Composer

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