The Lord's Lantern in Budapest (1999)
• January 28th, 1999 • 1h 43min
Comedy, Drama
Overview
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.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Maître Pygmalion
Released on: 1975-07-27
Drama
Juliette, a young woman of twenty-five, works unsuccessfully as a sales representative. Discouraged,...
Die Halbzarte
Released on: 1959-02-11
Comedy
Nicole is a young librarian who writes romantic poetry. A successful new erotic novel, gives her the...
August Rush
Released on: 2007-11-21
Family, Drama, Music
Lyla and Louis, a singer and a musician, fall in love, but are soon compelled to separate. Lyla is f...
Kontroll
Released on: 2003-11-20
Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
A tale about a strange young man, Bulcsú, and the fellow ticket inspectors on his team who work aboa...
Berlin am Meer
Released on: 2007-10-01
Romance, Drama
Tom and Malte are best friends; they make music together, DJ in Berlin clubs, dream of a career toge...
I'm Not There
Released on: 2007-10-01
Drama, Music
Six actors portray six personas of music legend Bob Dylan in scenes depicting various stages of his ...
My Name Is Lenny
Released on: 2017-06-09
Drama
The life story of one of Britain's most notorious bare-knuckle fighters, Lenny McLean, also known as...
The Chorus
Released on: 2004-03-17
Drama, History, Comedy
In 1940s France, a new teacher at a school for disruptive boys gives hope and inspiration.
PLEH
Released on: 2017-10-22
Science Fiction, Comedy, Documentary, Drama
An experimental journey through a year in the life of the director, using his always playing playlis...
The Boys & Girl from County Clare
Released on: 2003-09-12
Romance, Comedy, Music
In Ireland in the mid 1960s, two feuding brothers and their respective Ceilidh bands compete at a mu...
The Double Life of Véronique
Released on: 1991-05-15
Drama, Fantasy
Véronique is a beautiful young French woman who aspires to be a renowned singer; Weronika lives in P...
The Miracle of Bern
Released on: 2003-10-15
Drama, Comedy
The movie deals with the championship-winning German soccer team of 1954. Its story is linked with t...
Still Crazy
Released on: 1998-10-30
Comedy, Music
In the 1970s, Strange Fruit were it. They lived the rock lifestyle to the max, groupies, drugs, inte...
Last Tango in Paris
Released on: 1972-12-15
Drama, Romance
A recently widowed American begins an anonymous sexual relationship with a young Parisian woman.
Footloose
Released on: 1984-02-17
Drama, Romance
When teenager Ren and his family move from big-city Chicago to a small town in the West, he's in for...
The Piano Teacher
Released on: 2001-09-05
Drama, Romance
Erika Kohut, a sexually repressed piano teacher living with her domineering mother, meets a young ma...
Trick
Released on: 1999-07-23
Comedy, Romance
Gabriel is a young, aspiring musical composer whose life seems stuck in the First Act. When his new ...
Porgy and Bess
Released on: 1959-06-24
Music, Drama, Romance
In the early 1900s, the fictional Catfish Row section of Charleston, South Carolina serves as home t...
