Main Cast: Tibor Szilagyi, Andras Kozak, Alicja Jachiewicz, Gabor Koncz, Ferenc Bessenyei
Release Year: 1980
Country: HU
Run Time: 110 minutes
Plot
The brutality that preceded the 1956 protests in Hungary may have fanned the plot of this 1981 political drama. After a rather vicious soccer game, the coach of the losing team unleashes his rage against the umpire in a locker room fight that ends up with the umpire very dead, his head bashed against the inside of a toilet bowl. A journalist sees the bloody toilet bowl and hides it in a church belfry (yes), a place safe from accidental discovery. Meanwhile, the journalist writes an article that exposes much of the truth about the fight, and as a consquence of that unadvisedly rash action he is thrown in jail - perhaps for longer than he realizes as the political higher-ups are not too interested in getting to the bottom of things. Before the film ends, there is yet another murder - and the fate of the journalist, not to mention the truth, lies in the balance. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide
Cast
Tibor Szilagyi - Deszo
Andras Kozak - Balint
Alicja Jachiewicz - Wife
Gabor Koncz - Wasp
Ferenc Bessenyei - Constable
Laszlo Horvath; Istvan Szilagyi; Ferenc Bencze; Gabor Harsanyi; Istvan Hunyadkurthy; Peter Franke; Laszlo Dozsa; Ildiko Pecsi; Matyas Usztic
Credit
Ferenc Kósa - Director, Margit Galamb - Editor, Gabor Ballo - Production Designer, Sandor Sara - Cinematographer, Ferenc Kósa - Screenwriter
