The Lord's Lantern in Budapest(1999)

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.

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Director: Miklós Jancsó

Actors: Zoltán Mucsi, Péter Scherer, József Szarvas, Zsolt Anger, Éva Bakos, Erika Balogh, Gergely Bikácsy, György Bárva, József Böjte, Virág Csapó

Release date: 1999-01-28

Country of origin: Hungary

Length: 1h 43m

Ratings:

• 6.7/10